Unmatched Power and Energy Autonomy

Designed for continuous year-round operation, WaterStation Max integrates four high-efficiency solar panels and an optional micro-hydro generator, ensuring uninterrupted energy supply in any environment, including winter conditions and ice-covered waters. This floating laboratory-grade monitoring station is ideal for critical infrastructure, research institutions, and water management organizations, providing data for preventing ecological disasters, optimizing resource management, and assessing pollution sources with precision.

Portable Yet Powerful Monitoring Platform

Despite its advanced capabilities, WaterStation Max remains lightweight and portable, allowing for deployment from small boats, docks, or riverbanks. Its high-performance architecture ensures continuous data collection for both short-term research and long-term environmental monitoring.

Modular and Plug-and-Play

WaterStation Max is engineered for effortless setup and operation, making it accessible for both professionals and non-experts. With a hull diameter of 50 centimeters and a weight of under 20 kilograms, its modular design allows for quick assembly and deployment. Featuring water-protected quick-connect ports, the system ensures durability, ease of maintenance, and long-term reliability in the field.

Laboratory Grade Precision State of the Art Innovative Measurment System

The innovative WaterSensors Module uses a continuous roll of miniature printed sensors, ensuring daily sensor replacement for peak accuracy. Each sensor is preconditioned in a buffer solution and automatically calibrated, eliminating the need for manual cleaning or chemical calibration. The entire sensor roll lasts up to one year, enabling hassle-free, continuous monitoring without station removal

Revolutionary Printed Electronics Sensors

WaterStation Max is equipped with cutting-edge printed electronics sensors, featuring ion-selective membranes that provide unmatched repeatability, selectivity, and accuracy. The cost-effective, replaceable sensor rolls allow for quick sensor swaps in just minutes, eliminating the need for on-site calibration or cleaning. This low-maintenance approach makes replacing sensors as easy as changing a printer toner, ensuring seamless operation.

Multi-Depth Water Sampling for Comprehensive Analysis

WaterStation Max features automated multi-depth water sampling, allowing researchers to collect data from various thermal layers within a water body, including littoral, epilimnion, metalimnion, and hypolimnion zones, ensuring a complete assessment of water quality dynamics.

Hydro-Powered Energy System for Flowing Waters

The optional micro-hydro generator ensures continuous power generation, harnessing energy from flowing water in rivers and dynamic aquatic environments. This ensures full energy autonomy, powering all station systems, including electronics heating in winter and automated ice-melting features. The system can maintain laboratory-grade measurements even in ice-covered waters, positioning itself within an ice-free opening to guarantee uninterrupted data collection.

Optimized Solar Energy for Stationary Waters

For deployments in lakes, reservoirs, and other non-flowing waters, WaterStation Max features an optional solar panel array that provides continuous power, ensuring long-term autonomy without manual charging.

Intelligent Battery Management System

A specially designed high-efficiency battery pack ensures at least three months of continuous operation, even in the absence of sunlight or water flow. The integrated heating system automatically warms the battery in cold conditions, preventing temperature-related power failures.

Advanced Wireless Communication and Data Transmission

WaterStation Max ensures real-time data transmission using LTE4+ cellular connectivity, WiFi, and Bluetooth, with an optional LoRa telemetry module for installations in areas without cellular coverage. The high-speed 4G LTE connection enables even real-time image streaming. A two-way communication protocol allows for remote execution of actions, ensuring the monitoring station remains fully operational in any environment.

LoRa Telemetry for Remote Installations

In areas with limited or no cellular connectivity, WaterStation Max supports LoRa telemetry with a range of up to 10 km in line-of-sight and 4 km in urban areas. A future upgrade will include satellite data transmission, expanding monitoring capabilities to even the most remote locations.

Enhanced Visibility and Smart Lighting System

The integrated twilight sensor and LED indicator ring provide real-time water quality signaling using RGB color-coded lighting. Additional high-power marine lights ensure long-range visibility, making the station easy to locate in all conditions.

Comprehensive Security and Anti-Tampering System

WaterStation Max is equipped with an advanced anti-vandalism security suite, including motion sensors, a microphone, and high-resolution cameras to monitor its surroundings. It features:
• LED spotlights and alarm sirens activated when threats are detected
• Ultrasonic vessel detection sensors to prevent collisions
• Marine traffic light system for increased nighttime visibility
• Twilight sensor for automatic lighting control
• Customizable deterrent scenarios via WaterCloud for automated security responses

Advanced Ultrasonic and Motion-Based Security

Equipped with 360-degree movement sensors and ultrasonic mapping technology, WaterStation Max can detect objects within its vicinity and analyze it’s own movement patterns in nine degrees of freedom.

Live 360-Degree Camera for Remote Monitoring

WaterStation Max is equipped with an advanced anti-vandalism security suite, including motion sensors, a microphone, and high-resolution cameras to monitor its surroundings. It features:
• LED spotlights and alarm sirens activated when threats are detected
• Ultrasonic vessel detection sensors to prevent collisions
A high-resolution 360-degree camera with night vision allows users to access live footage via the WaterCloud platform, providing visual confirmation of station status and surrounding conditions.
• Twilight sensor for automatic lighting control
• Customizable deterrent scenarios via WaterCloud for automated security responses

Acoustic Monitoring and Alarm System

An integrated microphone captures ambient sound activity, while 110 dB alarm sirens activate upon detecting threats. Adjustable frequency settings allow customized security responses based on the monitoring environment.

Powerful LED Reflector for Nighttime Operations

A bright LED reflector enhances visibility in low-light environments, ensuring clear imaging for the live 360-degree camera feed and overall operational safety.

Engineered for Extreme Durability

WaterStation Max is designed to withstand the harshest environmental conditions, ensuring years of continuous and reliable operation. Constructed from cross-linked polyethylene with a heavy-duty ASA polymer skin, it offers exceptional impact resistance, UV protection, and resilience against extreme weather conditions, including ice and snow. Built for long-term deployments in demanding aquatic environments, WaterStation Max delivers unmatched durability, making it the ultimate solution for high-precision, autonomous water quality monitoring.