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ROW #538 · LEG 81 ITEM 6 · DUG (pattern, boundary) / TESTED NEGATIVE (Osceola-born product)
The pattern case is the strongest in the region — and a 2008 primary source seats its firm, at that date, in Granger, not Osceola. EmNet LLC — "embedded networks" — was formed in 2004 in partnership among the City of South Bend, the University of Notre Dame and Purdue University, growing out of Notre Dame electrical-engineering professor Michael Lemmon's sensor-network research and graduate student Luis Montestruque, to solve South Bend's combined-sewer-overflow problem: manhole-mounted wireless sensors (CSOnet; 105 nodes in the 2008 design) that let the city use its existing pipes' spare capacity instead of building new ones. Notre Dame's accounts credit the system with cutting overflows by about 70 percent at roughly a tenth of traditional cost in the early telling, and with saving over a billion gallons of overflow a year and supporting a revised compliance plan saving the city $437 million by the 2021 telling; EmNet was acquired by Xylem in 2018, and its client list grew to San Francisco, Los Angeles, St. Louis and others. The beta-test city was South Bend, in its own sewers. Purdue's June 4, 2008 release locates the firm, in Montestruque's own title line, as "founded in 2004 and located in Granger, Ind." — a Granger seat at that date, owned by the Granger build, not this one.
For Osceola the test is short because the town's own record is short: Osceola runs water and sewer as a small municipal utility (the banked Government carries water/sewer only), and no municipal software born in Osceola, beta-tested in Osceola, or sold outward from Osceola appears in the town record, the EmNet record, or any search reached. Closure: pattern DUG at boundary size; Osceola case TESTED NEGATIVE. No credit is imported across either boundary — not South Bend's beta test, and not Granger's seat.
Sources:
- Purdue University news release, June 4, 2008 — CSOnet design; "EmNet, founded in 2004 and located in Granger, Ind."
- University of Notre Dame, ESTEEM thesis spotlight; Stories; Science news, August 25, 2021 — formation partnership, overflow reductions, Xylem acquisition 2018, $437M revised-plan saving.
- Associated Press via Underground Infrastructure / GovTech, February 2017 — EmNet at 13 years; Blu-X platform.
- Banked Government — Osceola water/sewer at municipal-utility size only.