Kinnetic Laboratories owns and maintains an extensive array of environmental and oceanographic instrumentation for project use, lease, and sale. In addition, Kinnetic Laboratories maintains an instrumentation department which works with clients to develop and customize solutions to various environmental and oceanographic monitoring and sampling needs.
We create specialized instrumentation including complex oceanographic moorings with satellite telemetry capabilities, moored instrumentation, and are leaders in flow-compositing, modem-controlled stormwater monitoring stations that have been utilized in over 20 major urban watersheds.
Instrumentation Networking
Our proprietary Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems gather data from remote instrumentation around wide geographic areas. The SCADA is a low-cost, reliable wireless communications system that can include the following technologies:
Cellular/ Internet
UHF/VHF Radio Link
Spread Spectrum Radio (900MHz/2.4GHz)
Satellite (GOES)
LANs
Kinnetic Laboratories SCADA systems are used in the following applications:
BMPs
Surface waters
Remediation sites
Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s)
Sanitary Collection Systems
Combined Sewer Systems
Offshore moorings
Kinnetic Laboratories' SCADA system advantages:
Reliable
Flexible
Low-cost
Real-time data acquisition
High data quality
Supervisory control using network components
Interface with MODBUS RTU & DNP3
Real time control over remote devices such as samplers,
sensors, data loggers, etc.
Proven success in dynamic storm event monitoring
Custom designs to meet project needs
Meets complex monitoring requirements
Kinnetic Laboratories has a proven track record of success using SCADA to monitor stormwater:
Kinnetic Laboratories designs and builds remote aerial vehicles for use in aerial photography. This tool has been used on numerous field dye studies to track dye movements and dispersion over time.
Kinnetic Laboratories remote aerial photography has also been used to document study site conditions and changes with time.
This tool allows local, cost effective, and efficient aerial photos to be obtained by field scientists of a study site as frequent as necessary during field studies. Oblique photographs as well as vertical photographs have been found to be very useful for field documentation and site characterization purposes..
Local site oblique aerial photographs can be obtained for use in visualizing study sites and documenting changes. Such aerial photographs can be obtained efficiently and economically at a study site timed with other field activities for maximum benefits. Oblique or vertical photographs can be taken locally at a study site using a small remote aerial vehicle. Such oblique photographs give excellent perspectives when used to document changing site conditions during field studies.
