The whole instrument. No lab slowdown.
Deploy in the field — without wiring up a data logger, sourcing a battery pack, or building your own housing. It's all already built in.
We build autonomous field sensing tools for environmental science — precision hardware designed to be deployed across caves, rivers, and remote catchments worldwide.
Deploy in the field — without wiring up a data logger, sourcing a battery pack, or building your own housing. It's all already built in.
Whatever the catchment, cave, or remote waterway, there's a Waikato Scientific instrument built for it.
The SYP Mark III collects up to 58 precisely timestamped water samples over a 12-month deployment — unattended, in the most demanding environments on earth. Cited by name in Science Advances.
Full product detailsReal-time sensing of NO₃, PO₄, and As using diffusive gradients in thin films combined with impedance spectroscopy — low-cost, continuous, in the field.
Join the waitlistA dedicated precipitation sampler designed to pair with SYP, enabling simultaneous rainwater and surface or groundwater collection for paired isotopic analysis.
Join the waitlistEvery instrument we ship has been through a deployment we ran ourselves first.
We prepare every quote by hand so pricing, lead time and shipping reflect your actual deployment.
Over 12 months at one sample per week, on a single 8 Ah rechargeable LiPo. The sampling interval is user-defined from 1 to 65,000 hours, so the deployment window scales with how often you sample.
Four: timed, delayed start, continuous flow-proportional, and external trigger. Water is drawn either by gravity (no pump, no mechanical contamination risk) or by peristaltic pump where hydraulic head is insufficient. External mode responds passively to a 12 V pulse from a third-party datalogger.
18 months from purchase, on both Base and Expedition packages.
SYP hosts its own Wi-Fi access point. Connect from a phone or laptop, configure the run, and export the full sample log as CSV through the browser interface. Onboard sensors also log temperature, humidity, and air pressure alongside each sample.
The electronics are rated −10 °C to +50 °C, in a water-resistant acrylic case with stainless fasteners, a waterproof stepper motor, and a conformal-coated PCB. Note that vials and tubing may burst if frozen while full of water, so sub-zero sites need planning.
Both are in development, not yet shipping. Get in touch and we'll add you to the waitlist and keep you posted on field-trial timing.
