Freshwater Sentinel Pilot program

See water conditions between sampling visits.

Continuous freshwater intelligence for managed lakes, reservoirs, ponds, and stormwater sites—delivered through a field node, cellular dashboard, and alerts your team can act on.

5water measurements
Cellulardashboard & alerts
90 daysto prove site value

Illustrative dashboard

North Lake · Station 01

Online
Dissolved oxygen

7.2 mg/L

Within baseline
Turbidity

14.8 NTU

Trending upward
pH

7.6

Stable
Temperature

22.1 °C

+0.4° today
Change detected

Turbidity moved above the site's recent baseline.

8 min ago

Example values shown for interface illustration.

One field system. Earlier operational visibility.

Dissolved oxygenTemperatureTurbiditypHConductivity

The operational gap

A sample is a moment. Water conditions keep moving.

Scheduled sampling remains essential, but it cannot show every change between visits. Freshwater Sentinel adds a continuous operational layer so teams can see trends sooner and direct field attention where it matters most.

01

Protect fish health

Follow dissolved oxygen and temperature trends that can change faster than a routine inspection schedule.

Earlier awareness
03

Document what changed

Build a time-stamped operational record around weather, treatment, complaints, or other site events.

Defensible context

Built for managed water

Useful visibility without another dashboard to babysit.

The service is designed around the decisions park managers, water-resource teams, public works staff, and field contractors already need to make.

Discuss your monitoring site
01

Parks & recreation

Add continuous visibility to lakes, ponds, and recreational water bodies without adding another daily task for park staff.

02

Lake & reservoir teams

Watch oxygen, temperature, turbidity, pH, and conductivity trends between site visits and sampling events.

03

Public works & stormwater

Build a defensible operational record around wet-weather events, changing conditions, and field response priorities.

04

Consultants & contractors

Extend field coverage with a contractor-friendly node, remote diagnostics, and a dashboard that is ready to share.

From water to decision

One connected path from the field to your team.

The node, data connection, dashboard, and monitoring support are delivered as one practical service.

1

Measure in the water

A compact field node collects five core water-quality measurements and monitors its own health.

2

Send by cellular

Scheduled data and node-health updates reach the cloud without relying on site Wi-Fi.

3

Act with context

Dashboards, alerts, weekly summaries, and pilot reporting turn readings into a clearer field decision.

A bounded first step

Prove the value at one real site in 90 days.

The pilot is built to answer practical questions: Does the node stay connected? Do the trends match field reality? Do the alerts improve response? Does continuous visibility earn a place in the operating plan?

Day 0Deploy

Agree on the location, baseline, and alert priorities.

Day 45Review

Evaluate data quality, patterns, and operational usefulness.

Day 90Decide

Continue, expand, adjust, or stop with evidence in hand.

Straightforward pilot pricing

Start small. Keep the decision reversible.

The pilot establishes value before your team commits to an ongoing deployment.

90-day pilot

Field validation

Best first step

$2,500

one-time · per node

  • Hardware use and installation
  • Cellular service and dashboard
  • Alerts, weekly summaries, and support
  • Midpoint review and final findings report
Request a pilot review

After the pilot

Ongoing monitoring

$595

per month · per node

  • Continuous monitoring and cellular data
  • Secure dashboard, alerts, and storage
  • Software updates and remote diagnostics
  • One annual calibration/service visit
Review the pilot structure

Final scope depends on site access, mounting, and installation requirements. Any scope change is agreed before deployment.

Practical questions

Know what the pilot is—and what it is not.

Clear boundaries make the results more credible and the final decision easier.

Does Freshwater Sentinel replace laboratory sampling?

No. It provides supplemental continuous monitoring for earlier operational visibility between sampling visits. Pilot data is not represented as regulatory-compliance data unless the system and methods are separately validated for that use.

How much staff time does a pilot require?

The customer provides site access and participates in a kickoff, mid-pilot review, and final decision meeting. Undrcurrent handles the node, cellular connection, dashboard, monitoring support, and pilot reporting.

What does the node measure?

The current Freshwater Sentinel package measures dissolved oxygen, temperature, turbidity, pH, and conductivity while also reporting node-health information through a cellular data connection.

What happens after the 90 days?

The final review turns the pilot into a practical decision: continue at the site, expand to additional locations, adjust the monitoring plan, or stop. There is no value in extending a deployment that does not answer an operational need.

Explore a pilot for your water body

Find out whether continuous monitoring would help your team respond sooner.

Tell us what you manage, how you monitor it today, and which changes concern you. We'll help define a practical 90-day pilot—or tell you plainly if Freshwater Sentinel is not the right fit.

Discuss your water body sloo@undrcurrent.net · (562) 781-4983