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A French company has extensive expertise and offers all types of electronic instruments dedicated to remote water monitoring. Indeed, the SME offers specific products for the environment sector, monitoring rivers, lakes, coastal areas and estuaries, oceanographic studies, uses in fishing and oyster farming activities, applications on the deep seas, or to monitor corrosion and the behavior of submerged systems.

The SME manufactures and markets autonomous monitoring instruments dedicated to freshwater with effective protection against biological fouling. The company is involved in erosion and sedimentation problems and offers solutions to monitor these parameters. Compact probes include robust underwater sensors and data loggers capable of measuring and recording the quality of pumping or bathing water, which means monitoring bacteriological risks and monitoring pollution indicators.

The SME offers an autonomous multiparameter probe equipped with wiping brush to avoid biological fouling onto optical sensors, data loggers and data transmission system (integrated GPRS modem). This robust probe can therefore measure and record for several months up to 7 main physico-chemical parameters of freshwater to be chosen from: temperature, depth, turbidity, chlorophyll a fluorescence, phycocyanin fluorescence, phycoerythrin fluorescence,dissolved oxygen, pH, redox and detection of hydrocarbons.

This probe is operational and very useful in freshwater applications, such as:
-Automated measurement station on site
-Water quality control
-Environmental monitoring
-Civil engineering and monitoring
-Bathing waters monitoring

The SME has also designed a new generation of long-lasting, high-accuracy multiparameter probes that allows real-time measurement of up to 20 parameters in freshwater thanks to its suite of intelligent digital sensors including a wiper to protect them from biological fouling. This robust and compact probe has a real plug and play and automatic recognition. The sensors can be connected, disconnected and calibrated even when the probe works on site. The probe is equipped with remote communications system compatible with all platforms and works with an easy-to-use integrated web interface.

The French company is looking for business opprtunities in Germany. The SME is looking for manufacturer of alerting station for use in hydrology and envionmental sectors. A German industrial partner is sought for commercial agreement with technical assistance.

Advantages & innovations

Compared to other products on the market, the probes are compact and can monitor many water characteristics. They are autonomous with their long-lasting battery and their anti-fouling system. The key features of new generation multiparameter probes are: - Up to 20 parameters at a time - Intelligent digital sensors can be plugged in and out as desired - Proven effectiveness of the cleaning system - High quality standards for data accuracy - Long-lasting alkaline batteries - Wifi connectivity compatible with all platforms - Friendly interface, easy-to-use integrated web interface - 3G / 4G solution and other remote communications - Proven light and robustness - User-friendly web interface for data acquisition

Stage of development

Already on the market

Partner sought

Type of partner: German industrial manufacturer of automated alerting systems for continuous water quality control (rivers, lakes, pumping water ...). The partner should be well established in the hydrology sector in Germany and should work with large water management groups. Role of the partner: to integrate compact and robust multiparameter probe into its alert stations and sell the latest improved stations. The French company will provide technical assistance to the German partner for integration of the probes and the data acquisition.