ACT BEFORE SEDIMENT REACHES THE TURBINES.

We measure sediment, water level and temperature in the catchment above and below your plants, every five minutes. Operations teams use it to manage high-sediment events and flushing. They also use it to see a surge coming, early enough to close inlets or divert water and get crews out of the riverbed.

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Paid pilots running with the three largest hydro operators in Switzerland.

THE SEDIMENT ARRIVES BEFORE THE DATA DOES.

Operators still rely on manual samples and indirect indicators. Decisions about turbine operation, flushing, reservoir management and compliance all wait on data that arrives late. And nothing upstream warns you when a storm turns a small tributary into a into a huge risk. No one is measuring the river above the plant.

Misox valley

CASE STUDY

In June 2024, 80 millimetres of rain fell on the Misox valley in two hours. There was no special weather warning. Six Axpo plants were damaged. One sat offline for months under half a metre of mud in its tunnel. We now work with Axpo to monitor sediment and water conditions upstream.

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RIVER MEASUREMENTS MADE OPERATIONAL

Measure in the catchment

Our sensors sit in the streams and rivers above your plants, and at other critical points. They measure calibrated turbidity or suspended sediment concentration, water level and temperature.

Receive data every five minutes

Readings are validated automatically and sent to our platform, including from remote alpine sites with no cellular coverage.

Use the data in operations

Follow events as they develop, set your own alert thresholds, and feed the data into the dashboards, models and reporting workflows you already use.

DECISIONS BACKED BY LIVE SEDIMENT DATA.

Protect turbines during high-sediment events

Act on measured concentrations instead of waiting for a sample to come back from the lab. Decide when to close intakes and when turbines need protecting.

Act before a surge arrives

Watch conditions build in the catchment upstream. Close intakes in time, and get field crews out of the riverbed before the water rises.

Monitor flushing and prove compliance

Measure sediment continuously before, during and after a flushing event. One record serves the control room, environmental monitoring and the regulator.

Flash-flood forecasting

We are building forecasts for the catchments above your plants: which side stream, when the water arrives, and how confident. Innosuisse funded.

FIELD-PROVEN WITH SWISS HYDROPOWER OPERATORS.

Paid pilot projects are running with three of the largest energy utilities in Switzerland. Our data is already used in day-to-day operations at these plants.

START WITH ONE PLANT.

Tell us where sediment or sudden water creates operational risk. We will define what to measure, where to install it and how the data should reach your operations.