ENCELADUS in the press

SATTURN HOLEŠOV owner Jaromír Tomšů presented the company’s achievements at a lecture at the University of Finance and Administration (VŠFS). With its original ENCELADUS product, the company is setting a nationwide trend in decentralised wastewater treatment with telemetry-based control for rural communities and outlying urban areas.

What knowledge is needed to operate a domestic WWTP? Where should applications be submitted, and which authorities issue permits? What responsibilities come with operation, and what should you do if a plant fails? Jaromír Tomšů, Managing Director of SATTURN HOLEŠOV, addresses these and other questions. The company develops smart software for remote control of domestic WWTPs.

Holešov native and SATTURN owner Jaromír Tomšů received the Strait of Magellan Award from the Chilean Ambassador for ENCELADUS. This innovative monitoring system for networks of domestic wastewater treatment plants is designed primarily for smaller communities and could offer significant benefits for Chile.

SATTURN HOLEŠOV was named IBM Company of the Year 2021 in the Zlín Region. The company combines electronic communications and information technology with environmental projects, focusing on retaining water in the landscape and reducing pollution of surface water and groundwater.

Cable television, wastewater treatment and solar power: Jaromír Tomšů founded a company thirty years before this article that initially built cable TV networks in the Zlín area. This small family business from Holešov has since become a dynamic technology company, developing innovative solutions across multiple sectors and winning major awards.

SATTURN, the Holešov-based company behind Enceladus, was recognised for the project’s potential contribution to municipal wastewater treatment. The system serves areas with dispersed housing where conventional centralised municipal treatment is unsuitable.

A workshop at the For Arch trade fair examined wastewater solutions for smaller communities, including the NPŽP funding call No. 7/2021 and administrative obstacles to domestic WWTP projects. It also presented the operational network in Starkoč and ENCELADUS, recipient of an international award for innovation and exploration with global impact.

An interview with Jaromír Tomšů, the company’s Managing Director. The Enceladus telemetry system for municipal networks of wastewater treatment plants has earned numerous awards, including Innovation of the Year 2019, Visionary 2019, the International Innovation Award 2020, Egovernment The Best 2020 and Chile’s prestigious Strait of Magellan Award.

The article reports that the Kroměříž district has the highest number of communities without sewerage. Small settlements with dispersed housing and outlying urban areas face particular economic and technical difficulties. It also criticises the Zlín Region’s support for municipalities interested in domestic WWTP technology compared with other Czech regions.

Equipping each domestic WWTP with integrated telemetry enables a single qualified person, such as a designated municipal employee, to operate the network efficiently and economically. The modular combination of hardware and software provides remote monitoring and control of the plants.

An introduction to telemetry, the intelligence that turns individual domestic WWTPs into a coordinated network. The control unit is its core component. Other elements include supervisory software, a plant access sensor, an air pressure sensor and an innovative sludge probe that removes the need for sedimentation tests.

Practical experience from Rybí in Moravia and Pertoltice and Zbraslavice in Central Bohemia. Rybí operates 190 domestic WWTPs with online monitoring. Pertoltice installed 31 plants, while Zbraslavice operates 57 across ten settlements within the municipality.

Then Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and Culture Minister Lubomír Zaorálek visited Petrkov manor near Havlíčkův Brod, which its owners were offering for sale. The Prime Minister then joined Environment Minister Richard Brabec in Starkoč and Holice to inspect water retention and treatment projects supported by national or European funding.

Rural municipal wastewater treatment is a pressing issue for many small communities. Building sewerage systems with a single central WWTP in small settlements can be technically complex and expensive. Networks of domestic treatment plants with continuous operational monitoring offer an alternative.

Rural municipal wastewater treatment has become increasingly important. Drivers include European requirements, changing public attitudes towards treatment and water retention, and seminars organised by the Czech Ministry of the Environment and the State Environmental Fund.