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01Mission Control

Your morning, already briefed.

See what's changed across your plant, what failures are costing you, and which repairs deserve attention first. The daily briefs explain the findings and recommend where to start.

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Customer User

Grades

C

Fleet Health

B

Network Health

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Financial Overview

$122/day4.9%

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Active Alarms7

5Critical2Warning

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Asset Spotlight

Extrusion Line 2

$33.30/day

$7226 mo

Cascade-24Failed Open15 days

Cascade-24 remains the fleet’s highest-cost device at $37.56/day ($13,709 annualized), failed open for 15 days with an active critical alarm. At 136 lb/hr, this is the most aggressive steam loss in the fleet.

This is the second failure for this device. Cascade-24 failed open roughly 10 months ago and was repaired shortly after, it ran clean for 8 months before degrading again about 3 weeks ago. The telemetry tells a clear story: leak rate climbed from under 2% to over 60% across a 5-day transition window, with the characteristic cycle spike and temperature rise confirming a full mechanical failure rather than a transient.

At $1,200 estimated repair cost with a 32-day payback and 11.4x ROI, this is the single highest-value repair opportunity in the fleet. The seasonal transition continues to accelerate fleet exposure ($122.26/day, up from $116.58 last cycle), and this device alone accounts for roughly 31% of total daily fleet loss.

Financial Summary

Weekly Loss	$263
Annual Loss (Projected)	$13,709
Total Loss (90 Days)	$557
Repair Cost (Est.)	$1,200
Payback Period	32 days
ROI	11.4x

Trap Details

Location	Building A, Header #P16
Type	Float & Thermostatic
Mfr / Model	Spirax Sarco FT-125
Pipe / Pressure	1 1/4 in. / 125 PSI
Equipment	Heat Exchanger
Client Tag	ST-A-024

Cascade Enterprise 3: Network Issue

Developing

9 devices at risk, offline 11d

Hours Offline

11d

Devices at Risk

9

Last Seen

11d ago

Gone Silent (9)

11d ago

Still Reporting (5)

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Gateway Cascade Enterprise 3 has been offline for approximately 11 days as of this briefing, now well into its second week of downtime. Of the 24 devices served by this gateway, 14 lost connectivity immediately when the gateway went down. The remaining 10 had dual coverage through Enterprise 1 or Enterprise 2 and never experienced an interruption.

Within 48 hours of the outage, 5 of the 14 affected devices recovered by falling back to Cascade Enterprise 2, the redundant coverage kicked in as expected, though with a delay that suggests the failover was not instantaneous. Those 5 devices are now reporting normally through Enterprise 2, though at reduced signal strength (avg 42% vs their typical 71%).

That leaves 9 devices still dark with no alternative gateway coverage. These 9 are concentrated in the Building C sub-basement, where Enterprise 3 was the only gateway with viable signal penetration. We have no telemetry from these devices for the past 11 days, any failures that developed during this blind window will only be visible once the gateway is restored. With the seasonal ramp accelerating fleet exposure ($122.26/day, up from $116.58 last cycle), the cost of undetected failures is climbing. Restoring this gateway should be prioritized before the next maintenance cycle.

Extrusion Line 2: Failure Cluster

4

4 devices in coordinated failure$233/week

Weekly Loss

$233/wk

Annual Loss

$12,155/yr

Repair Cost

$4,800

Payback

144 days

Extrusion Line 2 has emerged as the fleet’s problem asset this month, running at 1.9 therms/trap/day, 3.8x the fleet average of 0.5. Four devices on this line are driving the exposure: Cascade-51 ($12.40/day, failed open), Cascade-58 ($9.80/day, failed open), Cascade-33 ($6.20/day, leaking), and Cascade-47 ($4.90/day, leaking). Together they account for $33.30/day in combined steam loss, or roughly 27% of total fleet financial exposure.

The timing is notable. All four devices degraded within the same 10-day window, and three of the four are on the same condensate return header. This concentration suggests a systemic condition, possibly a pressure excursion or condensate backup, rather than four independent failures. The remaining 24 devices on Extrusion Line 2 are operating normally, which further narrows the investigation to this specific header section.

The combined repair case is compelling: $4,800 in estimated repair costs across all four devices, with a combined payback of 144 days and 2.5x ROI. More importantly, a single technician visit can address all four since they’re on the same line. The strongest play is scheduling a header inspection that covers both the individual trap repairs and the underlying systemic condition, fixing the traps without addressing the root cause risks a repeat failure within months.

3 of 4 devices on the same condensate return header, systemic condition suspected

State	Loss/Day	Repair Cost	Payback
Failed Open	$12	–	–
Failed Open	$10	–	–
Leaking	$6	–	–
Leaking	$5	–	–

Intelligence BriefingImmediate

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Mission Control Agent

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02Any trap

Every trap has a history.

Open a trap to see how it's been behaving, when it failed, and what those failures cost.

Cascade-24

Failed Open

Current State

StateFailed Open

Duration15d

Energy4.8 th/d

Financial Impact

Daily$6.28

90-day$565.14

Annual$14.1k

90-Day States

Good68d

Failed Open15d

Shutdown4d

Average3d

Attributes

Trap LocationBuilding A — Header #P16

Trap TypeFloat & Thermostatic

ManufacturerSpirax Sarco

ModelFT-125

EquipmentHeat Exchanger

Pressure125 PSI

Pipe Size1 1/4 inch

Orifice0.246"

03Any building

See which repairs will make the biggest difference.

Compare losses across a building, see which lines are driving them, and plan your crew's work from there.

Cascade Manufacturing facility — satellite view

Steam Header

Fill Pack Line

Extrusion Line 2

04The arithmetic

Where your steam cost comes from.

This is where the platform's steam cost is set, starting with the published industrial natural gas price month by month. That price moves with the seasons, and in many states the most expensive month costs twice the cheapest, so a trap fixed before those months loses far less. The platform runs the loss calculation for every trap on its own. This screen shows the platform's steam cost page, built around the trap's orifice diameter, steam pressure, and boiler efficiency. To price a trap of your own, try the Steam Loss Calculator on this site.

Try the Steam Loss Calculator

True Steam Cost

⛽⚡

$1.71/therm

$17.13/klb

Natural Gas Price

AUTO$13.68/MCF

Boiler Efficiency80%

70%95%

System ConfigurationCondensate

DOE Cost Multiplier1.30x

1x2.5x

Natural Gas Pricing & Cost Impact

EIA industrial prices and derived cost per therm

Data Source

Washington

Current From EIA.gov

$13.68/MCF | $1.71/therm

24-Mo Avg

$12.45

Min

$9.80

Max

$16.20

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Steam Loss Calculator125 psig | $1.71/therm

Steam Loss136 lb/hr

Energy116,688 BTU/hr

Therms10,218

Annual Cost$13,488

Orifice Diameter0.125"

0.5"

Leak Factor100%

100%

Steam Pressure

125psig

0300 psig

Operating Hours8,760 hr/yr

1 hr/yr8,760 hr/yr

Environmental

🏭

CO₂

54.2 tons

🚗

Cars

11.8

🌲

Trees

903

🏠

Homes

24.6

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05The API

Bring the data into your own systems.

Your developers can use the API to pull SteamIQ data into the software your team already uses.

SteamIQ APIv1

Base URLhttps://api.steamiq.com/v1AuthX-API-Key header or a Bearer tokenIt's read only, on purpose. There's no SDK to install, because it's plain REST.

24 endpoints, all GET

Telemetry

Alarms

Devices

Events

Health

Metrics

Network

Financial

Steam cost

Devices

List Devices

GET/devices

Parameters

asset_idstring or null · queryOptional
Filter by asset UUID
statestring or null · queryOptional
Filter by effective_state
limitinteger · queryOptional
Max items per page
Default 50. From 1 to 500.
offsetinteger · queryOptional
Items to skip
Default 0. At least 0.

Limits for this call

Up to 100 requests a minute for each key. Past that, the API answers 429 with a Retry-After header.

Responses

200Successful Response
422Validation Error

Every answer comes wrapped the same way: success, data and meta. An error swaps data for error, with a code and a message.

Keysk-siq-...XXXX

Request

curl -X GET \
  -H 'X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  'https://api.steamiq.com/v1/devices'

Response · 200

Example from the spec, not live data

{
  "success": true,
  "data": [
    {
      "device_id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
      "device_label": null,
      "device_name": null,
      "customer_id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000010",
      "customer_title": null,
      "asset_id": null,
      "asset_name": null,
      "state": "unknown",
      "effective_state": "unknown",
      "latest_date": null,
      "leak_median": null,
      "steam_loss_rate_lb_hr": null,
      "tier2_event_type": null
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "timestamp": "2026-09-08T00:00:00Z",
    "request_id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
    "pagination": {
      "total": 1,
      "limit": 50,
      "offset": 0
    }
  }
}

Know where your steam system needs attention.

Your morning, already briefed.

Extrusion Line 2

Financial Summary

Trap Details

Mission Control Agent

Every trap has a history.

Cascade-24

See which repairs will make the biggest difference.

Extrusion Line 2

Steam Header

Fill Pack Line

Where your steam cost comes from.

Natural Gas Pricing & Cost Impact

Bring the data into your own systems.

List Devices

Parameters

Limits for this call

Responses