MEMOREYES MUNICIPAL · NEWS RELEASE
Sentry™ — Memoreyes Municipal’s SVADA™ (Supervisory Video and Data Acquisition) platform: fused AI video, security, and SCADA for unattended water and wastewater (W/WW) sites
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | September 28, 2026
Closing security gaps and improving labor efficiency at unattended sites.
ATLANTA (September 28, 2026) — Memoreyes Municipal today launched Sentry™, the first low-cost system to fuse AI video, physical security, and SCADA for unattended water and wastewater sites. The commercial claim is labor cost. Cybersecurity is why the video path belongs on an encrypted connection instead of a consumer cloud account.
The exact cost of a truck roll is different at every utility, and Memoreyes will not try and put a number on that. But the burden is the same everywhere: scheduling someone’s day, the drive out and back, fuel, and a call-in when they arrive and when they leave. What matters more is what that person was not doing instead — inspecting a station, working a real alarm, or the other work only an experienced operator has time for.
A remote lift station already sends an alarm, or a fault — high level, unexpected pump run, power blip — and today that means dispatching a crew blind. The consequences of inaction are real, so ignoring the alarm was never the safe choice. Video of the event changes what happens next: sometimes it delays the visit instead of triggering an emergency response, sometimes it negates the need for one entirely. Fuel, overtime, and an operator’s afternoon are the same either way — what changes with video is knowing which one it is before anyone leaves the lot. And even when a crew still has to go, video always adds preparedness: they know what they are walking into, and that preparedness is where the real money is saved. Sentry puts AI-timed event video next to the alarm so the superintendent might wait, stand down, or send the right trade already knowing what to expect. Daily inspection pictures take some of the form-driven drive-bys off the route. A two-year archive serves as the compliance file.
Truck rolls are reduced, not eliminated. The rolls that remain are more efficient: the skilled person who still goes has already seen the station.
Part of the math is vendor count, not just truck count: done separately, telemetry, security monitoring, and cellular video are three contracts with three companies — most video and alarm vendors assume broadband or Wi-Fi these sites don’t have. Sentry folds them into one device and one bill. The public line is high-definition video and pictures on demand for the price of a simple autodialer, one monthly fee including cellular data, meant to pay for itself by reducing unneeded rolls and making inspection cheaper to complete.
Memoreyes Municipal calls this fusion SVADA™ (Supervisory Video and Data Acquisition) — a new category of hardware-enabled service for the water and wastewater industry, built alongside the SCADA systems utilities already run, not in place of them. The underlying video-fusion technology is patent pending.
The labor pressure behind this is documented. The American Water Works Association’s (AWWA) 2025 Benchmarking Survey, cited by AWWA Chief Executive Officer David LaFrance in a July 22, 2026 Smart Water Magazine interview on the 2026 State of the Water Industry report, put retirement eligibility at 21 percent of utility employees within five years and average vacancy at 9 percent. Black & Veatch’s 15th annual Water Report, released June 12, 2026, found 71 percent of more than 600 surveyed stakeholders naming staffing shortages a significant barrier to operations. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects roughly 10,000 water and wastewater operator openings a year over the coming decade, almost all from replacement, even as overall headcount in the occupation is projected to decline slightly as smaller systems consolidate and automate. Sentry does not replace those people. It reduces unnecessary truck rolls so operators, electricians, and supervisors spend more of their day on more productive work.
These remote sites are also a soft target for security, and not just from the network side. Many rely on little more than a padlock, and once that is broken, whoever is inside has direct access to the controller and the network behind it — as much a cyber opening as a physical one. Vandalism, generator fuel theft, and materials theft are not everyday events, but they are real losses when they happen. And for a lone worker sent into an area that does not feel safe, having a video record running makes the job easier to do alone; panic buttons evoking immediate responce can be added to the same system.
The same system keeps the new video path from becoming a cyber liability. Traffic moves over encrypted VPN connections. AI on the edge sends events rather than a continuous public stream. A consumer camera on an open account is a hackers dream, and in the long run a more expensive door.
“The workforce behind these systems is retiring faster than it’s being replaced. Every truck roll we save gives an operator back an afternoon for more productive work.”
— John Collings III, President, Memoreyes Municipal
Collings pioneered cellular and web-based SCADA more than twenty years ago and founded Mission Communications. He has built four businesses in communications and security and served on the Security Industry Association board.
About Memoreyes Municipal
Memoreyes Municipal is an Atlanta-area company built for municipal water and wastewater utilities. It offers Sentry™, a low-cost system that fuses AI video, physical security, and SCADA for unattended water/wastewater facilities such as lift stations, wells, tanks and control cabinets. The company is the municipal line outgrowth of Memoreyes LLC, which developed outdoor video systems for commercial property. President John Collings III pioneered cellular and web-based SCADA more than twenty years ago as founder of Mission Communications. He has built four businesses across nearly three decades in communications and security and served on the board of the Security Industry Association (SIA), where he chaired the committee that developed communications compatibility standards. Sentry is sold business-to-business to municipal and private water and wastewater utilities. The operations display integrates with MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) and web-enabled HMIs (Human-Machine Interfaces) such as VTScada. Memoreyes Municipal calls its underlying approach SVADA™ (Supervisory Video and Data Acquisition), a new category of hardware-enabled service for the water and wastewater industry; the core video-fusion technology is patent pending.
Website: www.mm4s.net. Phone: 770-989-1776. Email: sales@mm4s.net.
Media Contact
John Collings III, President, Memoreyes Municipal — 770-989-1776 — sales@mm4s.net
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