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Bluesonde Buoy xHAB
Bluesonde offers the first scalable, real-time water quality monitoring buoy built to provide persistent, reliable data across oceans, freshwater systems, and industrial waterways. Bluesondes platform empowers organizations to manage water responsibly, drive sustainability, and advance climate resilience.
Data Driven Water Insights
Accuracy You Can Trust
User Friendly & Affordable
Scale with Your Business
Challenges
Current in-situ sensing equipment requires frequent maintenance, driving up operating costs and limiting monitoring coverage in key locations. These challenges create critical data gaps, preventing researchers and operators from accessing reliable, real-time information needed to optimize operations, assess risks, and make informed decisions at scale.
Solutions
Bluesonde is revolutionizing water monitoring with the industry’s first scalable, real-time water quality monitoring buoy. This pioneering product is the foundation of a growing fleet of advanced sensing solutions, designed to empower organizations to champion sustainability and drive impactful climate.
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Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring
Continuous data on aquatic environmental conditions—viewable via dashboard—to support effective monitoring of HABs, hypoxia, wastewater discharge, and more.
Durable & Reliable
Advanced sensors designed to withstand harsh marine and freshwater environments, ensuring long-term performance in even the most challenging conditions
Seamless Integrations
Flexibility to use our dashboard or integrate with existing data platforms, providing a consolidated view that enhances your ability to analyze and respond to environmental changes
Rapidly Deployable
Designed for quick and easy setup, allowing you to scale monitoring solutions as your business grows
Buoy Specifications
Buoy Specifications
| Onboard Power | Solar and battery-powered for autonomous operation—no recharging needed. |
|---|---|
| Compact Construction | 30.5 cm (12″) Diameter | 5.4 kg (12 lb) Weight |
| Seamless Connectivity | LTE | Satellite | Bluetooth |
| Configurable Sensor Payloads | Choose from preconfigured options or work with us to build a custom payload for your specific monitoring needs. |
| Base (always included): | Position + Temperature + Conductivity + Dissolved Oxygen |
| Additional Sensor List (select 2): | pH | Turbidity | Chlorophyll | Phycocyanin | Phycoerythrin | CDOM/FDOM | Tryptophan | and more |
| Applications: | Environmental Compliance | HABs | mCDR | Wastewater | Water Treatment | and more |
| Advanced Anti-Fouling Technology | Patent-pending anti-fouling minimizes biofouling across all sensors, ensuring reliability and reducing maintenance costs. |
Sensor Payload Configuration
Sensor Payload Configuration
Freshwater HABS
1
Conductivity, Temperature, and Dissolved Oxygen
- Conductivity
Range: 0 to 350,000 μS/cm
Accuracy:
±0.5% of reading plus 1 μS/cm from 0 to 100,000 μS/cm
±1.0% of reading from 100,000 to 200,000 μS/cm
±2.0% of reading from 200,000 to 350,000 μS/cm
Resolution: 0.1 μS/cm - Temperature
Range: -5° C to 50° C (23° F to 122° F)
Accuracy: ±0.1° C full range
Resolution: <0.01° C - Dissolved Oxygen
Range: 0 to 60 mg/L
Accuracy:
±0.1mg/L, 0 to 20 mg/L;
±5%, 20 to 60mg/L
Resolution: 0.01 mg/L
2
Chlorophyll-a (Total Algae)
- Blue Excitation
- Minimum Detection Limit: 0.03 μg/L
- Linear Range: 0 - 100 μg/L
3
Phycocyanin (Cyanobacteria)
- Minimum Detection Limit: 0.8 ppb
- Linear Range: 0 - 4,500 ppb
Marine HABS
1
Conductivity, Temperature, and Dissolved Oxygen
- Conductivity
Range: 0 to 350,000 μS/cm
Accuracy:
±0.5% of reading plus 1 μS/cm from 0 to 100,000 μS/cm
±1.0% of reading from 100,000 to 200,000 μS/cm
±2.0% of reading from 200,000 to 350,000 μS/cm
Resolution: 0.1 μS/cm - Temperature
Range: -5° C to 50° C (23° F to 122° F)
Accuracy: ±0.1° C full range
Resolution: <0.01° C - Dissolved Oxygen
Range: 0 to 60 mg/L
Accuracy:
±0.1mg/L, 0 to 20 mg/L;
±5%, 20 to 60mg/L
Resolution: 0.01 mg/L
2
Chlorophyll-a (Total Algae)
- Blue Excitation
- Minimum Detection Limit: 0.03 μg/L
- Linear Range: 0 - 100 μg/L
3
Phycocyanin (Cyanobacteria)
- Minimum Detection Limit: 0.1 ppb
- Linear Range: 0 - 700 ppb
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