Every Aquanode deployment composes from the same catalog of nodes — sources that pull water in, transforms that make it fit-for-purpose, storage that buffers and shifts it, and energy elements that power the whole grid. Each node has the same mesh interface. Pick the ones your site needs; add more as you grow.
Every site has at least one source. Most have two or three. The mesh treats them as a single pool of supply and routes from whichever is cheapest, freshest, or most available at any given hour.
6 nodes in this categoryCondenses drinking-grade water out of ambient humidity. Modular cabinets that scale linearly — start with one, add more as demand grows.
Captures rain off roofs, awnings, and engineered catchments into pre-filtered storage. Cheapest liter on the catalog when it's actually raining.
Containerized seawater or brackish reverse-osmosis skid. The highest-throughput single-node option in the catalog when you're on a coast.
Existing or new groundwater well, tied into the mesh through pressure and quality sensing. The foundational source on most rural and agricultural sites.
Local water utility, brought into the mesh as a sensed and metered input. Useful as a baseline or fallback, but priced and reliable at the utility's discretion.
Scheduled or on-demand tanker delivery from regional sources. The escape hatch when your other nodes are tapped out — or while permanent capacity is being installed.
Source water rarely arrives ready to drink. Transforms take what the sources produce and change its chemistry, biology, or temperature until it matches what the end-use needs — potable, irrigation, hot service.
4 nodes in this categoryPressure-driven membrane that rejects salts, heavy metals, and most dissolved contaminants. The workhorse of the transform layer.
Inline ultraviolet lamp that inactivates bacteria, viruses, and protozoa as water flows past. The final biological polish before storage or use.
Adds back calcium, magnesium, and trace minerals that RO and distillation strip out. Restores taste and the small but real health benefits of mineral content.
Moves heat from ambient air into water using a refrigeration cycle — 3–4× more efficient than resistive heating, and the cheapest way to make hot water from solar.
Production and demand never match minute-to-minute. Storage is what lets the mesh produce when energy is cheap and water is abundant, then deliver when neither is true. The simplest node in the catalog — and quietly the most important.
2 nodes in this categorySealed, food-grade storage tank with level, temperature, and pressure sensing on the mesh. Sized to your site's daily peak factor and seasonal volatility.
Routes surplus produced water back into your well casing or a dedicated injection point, turning the local aquifer into a multi-million-liter natural battery. When demand spikes or surface storage runs dry, the same well pulls it back out — already filtered by the ground it traveled through.
Water without energy is gravel. Every node in the catalog draws electrons; the mix you choose between solar, battery, and grid is the single biggest lever on your $/L. The intelligence layer decides where the next watt comes from at any given second.
3 nodes in this categoryPhotovoltaic panels sized to the site's combined water+building load. Cheapest electron ever produced; the foundation of any low-$/L deployment.
Lithium-iron-phosphate storage on the mesh, used to time-shift cheap solar into expensive peak hours and to ride through brief grid disturbances.
Connection to the local electrical utility, used as the fallback supply when solar+battery isn't covering load. Bidirectional where net-metering rules permit.
The mesh routes liters from the cheapest available source, through whatever transforms a use-case demands, into the storage layer that buffers peak demand and bridges supply gaps. Energy nodes — solar, battery, grid — are the lever the intelligence layer pulls on to keep $/L low.
Open the planner and drag nodes onto your parcel. We surface $/L, footprint, and resilience as you build.
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