Groundup.ai Awarded ~S$4M PUB Tender to Bring Cognitive Maintenance to Singapore's Water Infrastructure

SINGAPORE – 28 August 2026 – Groundup.ai, the industrial machine intelligence company and pioneer of Agentic AI for Cognitive Maintenance, has been awarded a tender by PUB, Singapore's National Water Agency, to implement and maintain a Predictive Maintenance and Reliability System for the water utility's critical assets. Selected through an open tender that attracted 15 respondents, Groundup.ai was the sole provider awarded the contract, valued at S$3,995,473.

The award is a strong signal that the world's most essential infrastructure is moving past predictive alerts toward Cognitive Maintenance - AI that does not simply flag anomalies, but reasons, diagnoses, and guides the operators who keep clean water flowing to millions of people.

Under the contract, Groundup.ai will deploy its Cognitive Maintenance platform, powered by the Groundup.ai Asset Library and its GINA engine, across PUB's critical rotating equipment. By analysing tri-parameter machine health data spanning sound, vibration, and thermal signals, the platform detects hidden faults, diagnoses root causes, and prescribes precise corrective actions before problems reach the plant floor - helping PUB reduce unplanned downtime, extend asset lifespan, and keep one of the nation's most critical services running.

The contract was awarded through a competitive open tender, in which 15 respondents competed. The win provides strong independent validation of its technology, now trusted to support the reliability of Singapore’s critical water infrastructure.

“Being awarded an open tender against this kind of field isn't just a contract - it's a signal of something bigger,” said Leon Lim, CEO & Founder of Groundup.ai.

“Some of the country’s most critical machines keep clean water flowing to millions of people. There is no room for guesswork or unplanned downtime. Cognitive Maintenance represents a shift beyond dashboards that merely raise alarms, towards AI that can reason, diagnose and guide operators on what to do before equipment failure disrupts operations. We’re proud to bring this Singapore-built technology to Singapore’s water infrastructure.”

PUB's decision is an example of a shift now reshaping asset-heavy industries worldwide. Two forces are converging: a maintenance workforce ageing toward retirement, taking decades of hard-won expertise with it, and an installed base of critical assets that is itself ageing and being pushed harder than ever. As that gap widens, utilities, manufacturers, and infrastructure operators are increasingly turning to AI that can capture expert reasoning and keep ageing equipment running safely.

Groundup.ai expects the trend to accelerate as more critical-infrastructure operators move from reactive and calendar-based maintenance to Cognitive Maintenance. Winning a national water agency through open tender is, the company believes, a leading indicator of where the wider market is headed.

The award deepens Groundup.ai's footprint in critical infrastructure and utilities, and builds on the company's strongest commercial year to date: eight-figure multi-year contracts, expansion across Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Europe, and a growing roster of tier-one enterprise and government clients. It advances the company's mission of a safer, more sustainable, and zero-downtime industrial world.

About Groundup.ai

Groundup.ai is a Singapore deep-tech company advancing Physical AI for the world's most critical assets, and the pioneer of the world's first Agentic AI for Cognitive Maintenance.

Our mission is to become the system of intelligence that critical assets rely on to understand, predict, and optimise their own operations.

At the core of our Cognitive Maintenance platform is the Groundup.ai Asset Library™, a proprietary machine intelligence engine trained on millions of tri-parameter machine health data points spanning sound, vibration, and thermal signals. Combining signal processing, multimodal AI, and agentic reasoning, the platform transforms raw machine telemetry into operational intelligence: detecting hidden faults, diagnosing root causes, and prescribing precise corrective actions before problems arise.

Deployed on-premise or in the cloud, Groundup.ai supports asset-heavy industries including manufacturing, maritime, defence, and critical infrastructure. The company works with world-class organisations including the Republic of Singapore Navy, Coca-Cola bottling operations, and Anglo-Eastern — serving customers across Southeast Asia, the GCC, Developed APAC markets, and selected European regions.

The result: Eliminated unplanned downtime, extended asset lifespan, and measurable ROI.

Zero downtime. Zero guesses. Zero waste. Learn more: https://groundup.ai/