The Resource Monitoring System will:

• Monitor and collect water consumption data from homes in order to make an accurate estimate on the level of effluent going to the septic system.
• Warn the user if the current water use will exceed their septic system's capacity
• Calculate and provide daily, weekly, and monthly averages of water consumption
• Have an intuitive user interface.
• Use multiple water meters to improve accuracy and pinpoint trouble spots
• Provide a means to make this technology affordable for the individual home/business owner
• Be easy and cost effective to install.
• Use commercial, off-the-shelf hardware and existing infrastructure as much as possible
• Be sold to contractors to reduce installation costs

The Resource Monitoring System will not:

• Automatically adjust a user’s water flow as means of controlling resource usage
• Measure the flow of wastewater from the house to the septic system, but will calculate an estimate of
    the wastewater going to the septic system based on the amount of intake water to the household.
• Force or mandate societal smart resource usage, RMS is just an informational tool
• Make a user’s consumption information publicly available
• Be completely immune from problems associated with power outages, lightning strikes, tampering, vandalism, and acts of God
• Monitor every individual water faucet/outlet in the house or building
• Be responsible for actions taken by the user in response to suggestions provided by the RMS system
  
• Continue to be accurate if regular septic tank pumping is not performed (usually once every 5 years maximum)