Neno Duplan, Author at Locus Technologies

About Neno Duplan

Locus Technologies founder Neno Duplan’s background as entrepreneur, environmental information management pioneer, and senior executive in environmental business, provides a well-rounded foundation for leadership. Dr. Duplan brings more than 25 years of experience as a senior executive in the application of computer science to the environmental industry. As founder, president, and CEO of San Francisco area based Locus Technologies, he developed extensive expertise in the application of advanced Internet technologies and wireless sensing to environmental information management. Dr. Duplan pioneered the application of an Internet based on-demand computing model for data management in the environmental industry. Dr. Duplan is the author of more than 30 technical papers on the use of technologies in the environmental industry. As a research associate at Carnegie Mellon in the early eighties, he developed the first prototype system for environmental data management and display using microcomputers. This early work led to the development of numerous database management systems at some of the nation’s largest contaminated sites, and ultimately to the formation of Locus Technologies in 1997. Locus Technologies is now the world leader in managing on-demand environmental information.

Entries by Neno Duplan

ESG Software

In today’s world, organizations must measure and report their environmental performance and adherence to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles.

Credible ESG Reporting

Climate change is about to upend the corporate world. Companies that fail to address their impacts on the environment are likely to face a backlash as their lack of effort will not sit well with the public, particularly as climatic changes become ever more severe and prominent.

EPA to set tougher requirements for lead in water

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would impose stricter requirements on water utilities to manage lead and copper contamination in drinking water supplies. The EPA said that tackling water pollution is a core duty of the agency.

Does your EHS software have a version number?

Probably the main benefit of SaaS multi-tenancy (that is frequently overlooked during the software selection process) is no software versioning. This is because multi-tenant software typically provides a rolling upgrade program: incremental and continuous improvements.

Is PFAS Contamination in US Drinking Water Supply the Next Crisis?

In most cities in the US, drinking water quality conforms with the norms of the Safe Drinking Water Act, which requires EPA to set Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCL) for potential pollutants. Besides, the EPA’s Consumer Confidence Rule (CCR) of 1998 requires most public water suppliers to provide consumer confidence reports, also known as annual water […]

EHS Digital Transformation: Managing Drinking Water Quality Data and Compliance: CCR in the Cloud

In most industrialized cities around the world, drinking water is readily available and safe. Safeguarding groundwater (aquifers), streams, rivers, reservoirs, and lakes is crucial to continue delivering clean water on the tap. So is testing and validated water quality data.

EHS software switch to multi-tenancy: Too late to switch for many vendors

For EHS compliance software multi-tenant model wins and brings lower cost and wisdom of the crowd to customers and frees them from the tyranny of software upgrades.

Oil companies agree to reduce methane emissions

A coalition of the world’s oil companies agreed to reduce methane emissions from natural gas extraction—part of an effort to shore up the climate credentials of the hydrocarbon. The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative said it would target reducing methane emissions to less than 0.25% of the total natural gas the group of 13 member […]

Blockchain: aggregate emissions reporting

In the next few years, an opportunity exists to make significant advances in how we monitor and manage environmental emissions to the air, soil, and water, potentially resulting in significant disruptions in current approaches.

EHS Compliance Software: The difference between configurability and customization

It is not about features and functionalities that exist in existing EHS applications, but it is about how easy it is to add, build, or configure features, functionalities, or whole new applications that may not be present today using non-developers. It is about the flexibility of the platform not about the rigidity of applications.