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Built from experience on the factory floor.

Quantify Environmental is a Guelph, Ontario-based industrial IoT integrator. We design and install permanent sensor networks that bring live utility, equipment and process data into one dashboard.

2021Founded in Guelph, Ontario by Dave Fox and Tom Ulanowski

Our story

Too many factories were making important decisions without timely data.

Between our team, we bring three decades of factory-floor experience across breweries, dairies, food processors, chemical manufacturers, and greenhouses. We learned the work alongside sanitation crews at 3 a.m., millwrights in compressor rooms and operators recording readings by hand above a pasteurizer.

The same gap appeared again and again. Skilled operators were managing millions of dollars of equipment using experience, monthly bills and whatever someone noticed during a round. The people were capable; the information arrived too late.

We began with audits and reports, but a snapshot could not show what changed the following week. In 2021, we built the company we had wanted to hire: one that installs permanent sensors, keeps the system working and reviews the findings every month with the people who run the process.

That is why Quantify exists — and why the founders still spend their time on factory floors. We believe the people designing the system should understand the site firsthand and remain accountable for the result.

A Canadian factory floor

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Our founders

  • Dave Fox

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    Dave Fox, MSc

    Co-founder

    Dave spends most weeks on factory floors and still enjoys finding the leak, schedule or process change that no one could see before. He studied biogeography and earth sciences at the University of Waterloo and holds an MSc in Arctic geomorphology from McGill, then spent his first working years as an environmental scientist cleaning up contaminated sites. Consulting came next, as a project manager and technical sales lead, with assessment work in more than thirty food and beverage facilities across North America. Fifteen years of that adds up to a fairly good instinct for where a factory is losing water and energy. He was named a Clean50 Emerging Leader in 2019 and teaches sustainable resource management part time at Humber College.

  • Tom Ulanowski

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    Tom Ulanowski, MSc, P.Ag, P.Chem

    Co-founder

    Tom leads the team. He designs the monitoring architecture, works through the instrumentation and builds the calculations behind the dashboard. He holds an HBSc in analytical chemistry and environmental monitoring from the University of Toronto and an MSc in biogeochemistry and hydrogeology from Western, where he ran an environmental research laboratory at the Biotron and did field research in northern Canada. He has more than fifteen years in manufacturing, environmental monitoring, consulting and quality assurance, including leading quality and regulatory affairs for regulated manufacturing and controlled environment agriculture. He is a Professional Chemist, a Chartered Chemist and a Professional Agrologist, a published scientist and a named inventor on multiple patents. The British Columbia Institute of Agrologists named him Agrologist of the Month in May 2021.

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How we work

Permanent monitoring, not another audit or flyby.

Audits and reports can identify opportunities, but they capture only a moment. We give teams continuous data they can see for themselves and use to make, verify and defend their own decisions.

  • We install it ourselves

    We design, source, configure and install the sensor network. A typical installation takes less than a week, and usually does not interrupt production. When licensed trades are needed, we coordinate them and remain accountable for the work.

  • We stay on the monthly review

    The dashboard finds it; the review makes sure it gets fixed. That second half is where the savings actually land, and it is the half most vendors skip. Some of our clients are working toward ISO 50001 or an ISO 14064 greenhouse gas inventory, and the Energy Management Information System (EMIS) supplies the measured data both standards run on. Others already hold ISO 14001 environmental management and need the numbers underneath it.

  • We build on what you have

    Existing meters, PLCs with 4-20 mA outputs, legacy SCADA and the spreadsheets your team already keeps: we bring all of them in. We do not rip things out.

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Why we do it

A factory that understands itself can compete.

Canadian manufacturers face rising input costs, energy volatility and global competitors with mature operating data. Better measurement helps facilities reduce waste, protect margins and make the case for continued investment in Canadian production.

Data creates visibility.

Visibility creates action.

Action creates savings.

Awards & funding secured

Recognition, and the money we have helped clients get.

Awards, recognition and coverage

  • Pending[TOM-REVIEW]

    Clean 50 Emerging Leader Award, 2019, awarded to Dave Fox two years before Quantify Environmental was founded.

    Exact official award name to be confirmed. The award date on the post is the year only.

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    A Region of Waterloo environmental sustainability award, which Quantify helped Carlsberg Canada win.

    Exact award title, year and site unverified, so this one is not published until it is.

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    AIM2Flourish: the Carlsberg Canada project was featured in the global sustainability programme, and a Flourish Prize interview exists in the archive.

    Featured in the programme is not the same claim as winning the prize. Programme naming to be confirmed.

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    Speaking engagements: NB Power Energizing Efficiency, CFIN, and industrial IoT conferences across Canada.

    Event names, years and whether Quantify spoke or exhibited to be confirmed.

  • Pending[TOM-REVIEW]

    Coverage in Guelph News: “Businesses see benefits from city’s water conservation efforts”.

    Headline is recorded; publication date and link to be confirmed.

Funding secured for clients

We work with utilities and funding agencies to help clients identify and pursue support for eligible projects. We will publish funding outcomes here only when the amount has been confirmed in approved documentation.

  • Cheque presentation

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    [TOM-REVIEW]: factory, city, programme and amount secured, in the “this factory in this city, $X secured” form.

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    [TOM-REVIEW]: factory, city, programme and amount secured, in the “this factory in this city, $X secured” form.

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  • Cheque presentation

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    [TOM-REVIEW]: factory, city, programme and amount secured, in the “this factory in this city, $X secured” form.

    Source of truth is the client proposal. Client naming needs permission first. Nothing here is a figure until both are settled.

Everything we publish lands in the newsroom first. All the news

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Come and see what we do.

The fastest way to understand how we work is to walk your own floor with us. A few hours, a look at your last few months of bills, and a straight answer about what is worth doing first.

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