AI detection that learns each building's pattern.

Most leak systems use one rule for all the buildings they're installed in. The result tends to be either too many false alarms during normal use, or missed events when the rule is loosened to keep the system quiet. Silviri AI learns each building's normal water-use pattern, then alerts you when something doesn't match it — with fewer false alarms during ordinary use and better detection on the events that matter.

Background

Most leak detection systems apply a single fixed rule across every building.

Most leak detection systems work like this: a fixed threshold, the same threshold for every building all the time. "If water flow goes above X gallons per minute, send an alert." It's simple to ship and easy to demonstrate. It also tends to underperform once it's in a real building, because every apartment building is different.

A 200-unit luxury high-rise uses water nothing like a 60-unit garden-style. A 1970s building with old galvanized pipes flows differently than a 2015 building with PEX. A property with morning irrigation looks nothing like one without. A single rule can't cover that range — so the system either over-alerts during normal use, or sits quiet through leaks it should have caught.

Failure 1

Alert fatigue

Set the rule tight enough to catch the maximum number of real leak events, and the system fires routinely during normal use — morning showers, sprinklers, pool fills, bathtubs filling. Maintenance teams gradually stop responding. By the time a real leak comes in, the alert may not be acted on quickly enough.

Failure 2

Slow leaks slip past

Loosen the rule to suppress false alarms, and slow leaks slip through. A toilet running all night at 0.3 gallons per minute can cost thousands of dollars per year — and is invisible to a system tuned only for catastrophic flow. Such a system also has trouble distinguishing a real pipe burst from a bathtub filling.

Failure 3

One size fits no one

A rule tuned for a 200-unit high-rise is wrong for a 60-unit walkup. A rule for 7:30am is wrong for 3:00am. A rule that works in summer fails in winter. Vendors can't ship one rule book that works for every building, so they ship a compromise that works imperfectly across all of them.

Fixed-rule tradeoff

Fixed thresholds trade false alarms against missed events.

With a fixed-rule system, the vendor has to choose where to set the threshold. Set it tight enough to catch slow leaks, and the system fires routinely during normal use. Set it loose enough to stay quiet, and slow leaks slip through unnoticed. Both ends of the choice cost the building owner something — just in different ways.

Rule set tight

Catches more events — but most aren't real.

Slow leaks become visible
Catastrophic floods caught early
Frequent false alarms during normal use
Maintenance teams gradually stop responding
When a real event arrives, it competes with the noise
vs.
Rule set loose

Quieter system — at the cost of slow-leak coverage.

Fewer false alarms
Alerts that come in carry weight
Slow leaks can run for weeks unnoticed
Water consumption drifts up quietly
Damage builds below the alert threshold
With one fixed rule, every vendor faces the same dilemma. They pick a setting that's an averaged compromise — reasonable for "most" buildings, less reasonable for yours specifically.
Silviri's approach

Per-building baselines with anomaly-based detection.

Silviri AI starts by quietly observing your building. What's normal here? When do residents shower? When does irrigation run? What does the building's water signature look like across a month, a season? Once the model has a stable baseline, it can flag deviations — without firing on the routine patterns of normal use.

It's the difference between a fixed threshold and a learned one. And it allows results that fixed-threshold systems struggle to deliver simultaneously.

Result 1

Substantially fewer false alarms.

What looks like an "anomaly" in a one-size-fits-all rule book may be perfectly normal in your building. What looks normal at 7:30am can be an anomaly at 3:00am. A learned baseline reflects your specific patterns. Your team gets fewer alerts overall — and the ones they do get are more likely to be real.

Result 2

Better detection of slow leaks.

A small continuous trickle that hides in normal usage at a high-volume building stands out in a small one. Silviri scores it as a deviation from your baseline, not as noise lost in an industry average. So slow drips, running fixtures, and dying water heaters can be flagged earlier than fixed-rule systems typically allow.

Every Silviri install starts with conservative basic protection running on day one — your building is covered the moment the sensors are up. As the system learns your specific patterns, the AI takes over more of the work.

Operational outcome

The system adapts to your building's actual usage profile.

Every building has its own water personality — its own mix of resident habits, occupancy rhythm, daily and seasonal patterns. That mix is unique to your property, and it's exactly what off-the-shelf systems can't see.

Silviri keeps adjusting to how your building actually operates. Things change — a new tenant moves in with two kids, the irrigation schedule changes, a unit gets a new dishwasher. The system updates with those changes instead of fighting them. Result: fewer false alarms during normal life, faster catches when something's actually wrong.

Data inputs

Detection accuracy improves with broader sensor coverage.

How sharp the system gets depends on how much it can see. The Detect tier gives us water/no-water signals. The Optimize tier gives us continuous flow data — that's where the system really starts learning.

Sensor wet/dry eventsDetect tier+
Time-stamped wet/dry signals from every sensor. Powers false-alarm filtering and pattern learning at the alert level.
Continuous water flowOptimize tier
Per-unit flow data minute by minute. Lets us identify which fixture is running, catch slow leaks, and model how each unit normally uses water.
Building infoAll tiers
Age, plumbing type, number of units, deductible, claim history. Gives the system context for what to expect.
Patterns from other buildings (anonymized)All tiers
Patterns we've learned across all our buildings help every new building start smarter — without ever sharing identifying data. Your building's data stays your building's data.
Application areas

Four areas where the per-building model is the difference.

We don't slap "AI" on the brochure as a marketing word. The AI does specific work, on specific problems, where it produces a measurable improvement. Here's where.

01
Smarter Alerts
All Tiers
  • Filters out false alarms — distinguishes real leaks from mopping and momentary spills based on patterns it's seen in your building
  • Connects the dots between sensors — if multiple sensors trip in a coordinated pattern, that's scored differently than one isolated trip — catching events that fixed-rule systems would miss
  • Tells you how confident it is — every alert comes with a confidence score so you know what to drop everything for vs. what can wait
02
Spotting the slow ones
Optimize Tier
  • Catches the slow drips — the toilet running at 2am, the water heater dripping for weeks — things sensor-only systems will never see
  • Reads each unit's water signature — knows when usage looks normal vs. when something's off
  • Spots the early warnings — flow patterns that drift over time often mean something's about to fail. We see it before it breaks.
03
Smarter Decisions
All Tiers
  • Knows your building's risk — combines what your building looks like with what it's actually done over time, so the loss estimate is yours, not an industry average
  • Recommends what to shut off — when an event triggers, the system tells you whether to close just the fixture, the unit, or the whole building
04
Tuned to you
Optimize Tier
  • Learns YOUR patterns — your building, your residents, your irrigation schedule, your appliances
  • Updates as you change — new tenants, renovated units, seasonal shifts — the system adjusts
  • Picks up your rhythms — the cycles unique to your building become part of how it scores anything anomalous
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