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A leading power supply provider in Austria took on the project of monitoring water levels at a power plant in Montenegro, in two remote locations where no infrastructure is available for installation. On top of that, site visits could only occur...

pH Sensor

The Hydrolab pH sensor uses a glass bulb measuring electrode and refillable reference electrode.

There are two versions available:

• pH with standard reference uses a separate measuring electrode and reference electrode, each in their own sonde port
• pH...

Ireland Groundwater Monitoring Program

To fulfill the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) requirements, a groundwater monitoring program was established by the Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland. This program focuses on providing information to assess the environmental status of...

Groundwater Monitoring Underpins Management of the Great Fen, UK

In 2001, five organizations came together to set out a vision for the Great Fen, with the aim of providing a more sustainable future for the area. In many respects, this work focuses on restoration by managing water levels, so a network of monitoring...

Chlorophyll a Sensor

The chlorophyll a sensor from Hydrolab is based on the Turner Designs Cyclops-7 submersible fluorometer. 

Remote Water Quality Monitoring in South Africa

Situated in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa, the Xstrata Coal South Africa (XCSA) runs several open cut and underground mining operations producing thermal coal.To ensure their mining operations do not affect the surrounding natural water...

Mining

Ensuring that pollutants from mining activities do not enter surrounding natural water bodies is a key issue in environmental monitoring and regulatory compliance. Hydrolab multiparameter sondes can measure a variety of parameters pertaining to...

Blue Green Algae Sensor

The blue-green algae sensor from Hydrolab is based on the Turner Designs Cyclops-7 submersible fluorometer.  Two versions are available, one for phycocyanin and one for phycoerythrin.

Sea-Bird Scientific HydroCAT-EP

The newest member of the HydroCAT family of water quality Sondes can also measure pH, turbidity and chlorophyll. By plumbing the pH sensor inline with conductivity, temperature and optical dissolved oxygen the HydroCAT-EP is capable of deployments up...

Monitoring underground water resources in Brazil

The Coca-Cola FENSA plant in Mogi das Cruzes is responsible for bottling mineral water supplied from two ground water sources. The plant is a benchmark for environmental sustainability projects. With this pioneer project the Mogi das Cruzes plant was...

Surface Water

Measuring water quantity and quality in surface water (open channels, rivers, reservoirs, lakes, and estuaries) is one of the foundations of hydrological monitoring and has been a focus of OTT Hydromet since its first  water current meters were...

Nutrient Monitoring

Continuous monitoring of nutrient levels provides crucial information about daily, seasonal and event based changes in water quality conditions, and can be a strong indicator on the overall health of the water body.  In recent years, monitoring of...

Coastal & Estuary

Measurement of water quality in coastal regions and estuaries is critical in the characterization of hypoxic ‘dead zones’ as a result of nutrient loading and algal blooms in the water bodies. Sediment loading analysis through turbidity measurement is...

Hydropower

Monitoring the impact of Hydropower plant activities on water bodies can be important for regulatory compliance and modeling purposes.Hydrolab instruments can measure total dissolved gas (TDG) levels around Hydropower activities and both Hydrolab and...

Oil & Gas

Monitoring natural water bodies surrounding oil and gas drilling activities like hydraulic fracturing is a key issue in environmental monitoring and regulatory compliance. Hydrolab multiparameter sondes can measure a variety of parameters pertaining...

Conductivity Sensor

The Hydrolab conductivity sensor uses four graphite electrodes in an open cell design to provide extremely accurate and reliable data with very low maintenance. The sensor is used to measure specific conductance, salinity, total dissolved solids...

Groundwater

Measuring groundwater level or depth-to-water is critically important for identifying long term trends, including declining water levels, saltwater intrusion, seasonal variations, aquifer recharge, artificial aquifer storage and recovery, and level...

Urban Hydrology

Urban Hydrology deals with the specific aspects of the hydrological cycle in urban and industrial settings. This includes all natural water flows as well as the consideration of precipitation, storm water, groundwater, rivers, and lakes, but also the...

Agriculture & Irrigation

OTT Hydromet sensors can provide key information on trend identification and regulatory compliance for water quality and quantity parameters around agriculture and irrigation activities. OTT water level and flow sensors can measure the discharge of...

OTT Hydromet Water Level Solutions

Pressure sensor with built-in data logger manages and stores pressure, depth to water, water level, and/or temperature measurements at programmable intervals.  Pair the Orpheus Mini with the OTT ITC for remote data acquisition. High...

How to ensure real-time access to Antarctic tide data

The SATGN is maintained and operated by the National Oceanography Centre, which is the UK centre of excellence for sea level monitoring, coastal flood forecasting and the analysis of sea levels. It is the focus for marine water level research in the...

65 new OTT ecoLog 500 stations in Denmark for a crop cutting research project

The associated sets of water level and water flow data, together with detailed records of the physical conditions, can form the basis for calculating the specific effects of the crop cutting on the water level and the manning number (expressing the...

OTT Pluvio²L in use for a research project in Antarctica

Close to McMurdo Station in Antarctica, researchers from the University of Colorado, Boulder and the National Center for Atmospheric Research are investigating methods to measure the accumulating snowfall in the harsh Antarctic environment. These...

Flood Warning Station at Kriebstein, Saxony - Germany

As flood-warning station and hydrometric base station with a catchment basin of 1754 km2 , reliable data monitoring is extremely important for the hydrological balance of Freiberg and for the whole area around the Mulde. The power plants, located up...

HOTTline - availability of our customer service during the end-of-year and new year holidays 2019 / 2020

In the period of Christmas and New Year's Eve we are reachable by Hotline via the number 0831 5617 430 or via email to [email protected] as follows: On Friday, December 13, 2019, we can be reached only in the morning at the...

OTT Hydromet Water Quality Solutions

Continuous monitoring of nutrient levels in water bodies provides critical information about the daily, seasonal and event based changes in water quality conditions.  Nutrient levels also are key indicators on the overall health of the...

Sutron SatLink3 Lite Data Logger

The SUTRON SatLink3 Lite is the latest addition to the SatLink3 family. It offers a reliable and cost-effective solution for your environmental monitoring needs, optimized for simple applications. It allows measuring, processing, and logging data...

New network of weather stations in Sheffield

OTT HydroMet is installing fifteen automatic weather stations as part of the University of Sheffield’s Urban Flows Observatory, which is led by the Departments of Civil and Structural Engineering, and Automatic Control and Systems Engineering (ACSE)....

Download Product Guide

Thank you for your interest in the OTT ecoN Product Guide – digital, optical photometric in situ sensor for nitrate with turbidity compensation.

Precipitation Measurement in East Tyrolia High Mountains

The Defereggen Valley's remote location is in the middle of the East Tyrolean high mountain valleys in the Alps. Due to the remote location, extreme weather conditions, and lack of infrastructure, it had not been possible to install an official...

Water Quality Monitoring and Weather Data at Pampulha Lake-Brasil

 In 2010, OTT Hydromet's partner in Brasil,  Hexis began working with CETEC. This resulted in the installation of a buoy, equipped with an automatic profiling system, in early 2013. The project’s objective is the continuous monitoring of the lake’s...

Flood Monitoring

While some areas are more prone to flooding than others, the establishment of flood monitoring systems near every major river or water body provides important information that helps protect property and lives. Of course, the most effective flood...

Bedford Flood Gate Control

Bedford Borough Council have been given responsibility for the management and control of 2 flood gates on the Great Ouse in the center of Bedford. OTT Hydrometry were successful in the tender process and were commissioned to install a monitoring...

Monitoring ditch water quality using OTT ecoN, Hydrolab HL4 and XLink 500

The RIVM in the Netherlands is using the OTT ecoN and the Hydrolab HL4, connected to an XLink 500 datalogger, to monitor the temporal variation of nutrients in ditch water. The data is sent to Hydromet Cloud. The goal of this project (WaterSNIP) is...

OTT Hydromet Cloud

Hydromet Cloud provides secure real-time data access from almost anywhere in the world via HydrometCloud.com and the Hydromet Cloud Mobile App. This includes the backend infrastructure to receive, ingest, decode, process, display, and store...

Dam Monitoring in South Africa

The purpose of the Komati River Basin Development Project is to ensure the availability of water in order to promote economic development in the region. OTT’s part of the project was to supply dataloggers for the monitoring of the river flows into...

Marketing-Support

Below you can find current OTT marketing campaigns: GENERAL Hydro Trends 2021 To the landing page   OTT HydroMet Webinar Series 2020 US version To the landing page   OTT HydroMet Webinar Series 2020 EMEA/APAC To the landing...

Precipitation measurement in high mountains - Aosta Valley

Precipitation monitoring in remote areas without infrastructure was thought to be impossible in Aosta Valley, Italy. All the more challenging was the task to install a measuring site on the Peak CIMO Blanche with its height of 3000 meters (just shy...

Village installs local flood warning system | Oxton - Nottinghamshire

A village in Nottinghamshire has installed an advanced river monitoring system from OTT Hydrometry that automatically issues text (sms) message alarms so that residents can implement flood protection measures. Oxton has a history of flooding problems...

Satellite telemetry supports flood protection in Scotland

Scotland's water is famed worldwide, and performs vital roles both in tourism and in the production and branding of some of the country’s greatest exports. Water resources are monitored closely by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) to...

About Hach Environmental

Sea-Bird Scientific combines unprecedented capabilities in providing best-of-class tools for monitoring of physical and biogeochemical variability in blue ocean waters. Sea-bird Scientific is comprised of Sea-Bird Electronics (Bellevue,...

Sea-Bird Scientific ECOs

The Environmental Characterization Optics (ECO) series of fluorometers delivers both high resolution and wide ranges. The ECO series excels in biological monitoring and dye trace studies. The potted optics block results in long term stability of the...

Water quality monitoring at the "Klingenberg" dam in Saxony, DE

The Klingenberg dam is located in the Free State of Saxony and serves the drinking water supply of Dresden and large parts of the former Weißeritzkreis area. Besides, it contributes to flood protection and, to a small extent, to energy generation. ...

Discharge Measurement Deep Within a Cave

Research is currently being conducted in the Hessenhau cave, located in southern Germany. The cave is the deepest known within the Swabian Alps at 144m (472 ft) and has a stream running through it that connects it to other caves within the area. ...

OTT ecoLog 1000 Water Level Logger

The OTT ecoLog 1000 is a self-contained, robust surface and groundwater level logger for measuring water level, temperature, and conductivity. It provides reliable system up-time and accurate measurements while avoiding data gaps. It’s simple to...

Mine Water Treatment Relies on Borehole Loggers

For the last nine years, Severn Trent Services, has managed a contract for mine water treatment across the Coal Authority estate, including 73 mine water treatment schemes in England, Scotland and Wales. These schemes take the form of three types:...

Service

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49 stations along the Mekong River - Cambodia - Vietnam - Laos - Thailand

The Mekong River Commission Secretariat (MRCS) is a Basin Management Organization formed through the joint-cooperation of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam. China and Myanmar are also partners with the MRCS. The organization aims at...

Legal Information

Address: OTT Hydromet GmbH Ludwigstr. 16 87437 Kempten Tel.: + 49 - (0)831 5617 - 0 Fax: + 49 - (0)831 5617 - 209 [email protected] Managing Directors: Nadia Iannuzzi, Patrick Gierman, Jeffrey Stock, Nina von Sivers  Commercial...

Modern monitoring network in the Indian Ocean

Three public authorities in Sri Lanka are responsible for various tasks in water management and they all depend on hydro-meteorological data. However, the existing monitoring network was in poor condition and reliable, up-to-date measurement values...

All-weather meteorological stations in the Carpathian Mountains - Hungary

For a development project on the Hungarian hydrometrical network operated by the Hungarian Meteorological Service (OMSZ), 141 new meteorological measuring stations were installed across the country. The all-weater climate stations have to provide...

Rentals

Rental instruments are a perfect choice for short-term projects. All rental products are factory calibrated and tested before shipment. Weekly and monthly rates are available and the cost of the rental can be applied toward purchase of a...

News and Pressroom

In recent years the development of flood warning systems has benefited from advances in sensor, datalogger and communications technology. The expansion of mobile telecommunications has meant that more locations now benefit from increased...

Rosenheim – Discharge Measurement under challenging conditions

The measurement station in Bad Aibling Triftbach, which is part of the state measurement network operated by WWA Rosenheim on behalf of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment, has been in successful operation for some time now. In 2018 this...

Groundwater Monitoring around Hydraulic Fracturing Sites in Colorado

Hydraulic fracturing or ‘Fracking’ has become more prevalent and controversial in the US in recent years. More than 90 percent of new wells in the US are completed using this method. While it is endorsed by some as a game-changer that promises an...

Stormwater

Recent events involving heavy rainfall in regions away from known flood hotspots show that many cities, towns and villages are having to deal with situations that have never happened in recorded history. Flooding, highways and drainage...