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The Lake Pulse Toolbox

Toolbox · Real-Time Monitoring

Sensors that never take a weekend off.

A lake does its most important work when no one is there. Oxygen crashes before dawn. Stratification builds over weeks. A grab sample catches one moment and misses the pattern. Continuous monitoring used to take a research budget, custom telemetry, and someone on staff who could run a datalogger. Not anymore. The sensors in this aisle keep the record between visits, so you get warning before the damage instead of documentation after it.7 products

Who this aisle is for

  • Your lake blooms, stratifies, or turns fast
  • Nobody is on the water midweek or overnight
  • You want alerts, not a spreadsheet you open in October
  • You want to connect lake level and chemistry to groundwater

Best for lakes with blooms, hypoxia, a busy landing, or a groundwater story nobody has measured.

7 products

LakeTemp Sensor

Temperature is the lake's master variable. This is the cheapest way to stop guessing at it.

Measures: Surface water temperature

Turnaround: Streams to your Portal continuously once deployed.

Ships in 3 business days

$150

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Shoreline Weather Station

Your shoreline's weather, measured where you are and kept to yourself.

Measures: Temperature, Humidity, Wind speed +11 more

Turnaround: Streams to your Lake Pulse account continuously once deployed.

Ships in 3 business days

$349

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Lakewide Weather Station

One station, read by the whole lake.

Measures: Details coming soon

Turnaround: Streams to your lake's portal and the Lake Pulse app continuously once deployed.

Ships in 3 business days

$649

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Dissolved Oxygen Sensor

Oxygen is what kills fish, and it does it at five in the morning when nobody is watching.

Measures: Dissolved oxygen, Water temperature

Turnaround: Streams to your Portal continuously once deployed.

Ships in 3 business days

$1,250

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Lake Sentinel Buoy

The bloom starts days before anyone can see it. This is what watches for it.

Measures: Chlorophyll-a, Phycocyanin, Turbidity +1 more

Turnaround: Streams to your Portal continuously once deployed.

Ships in 3 business days

$1,399

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LakeLevel Sensor

Ninety-six readings a day, to a fifth of an inch, from a sensor nobody has to visit.

Measures: Water level

Turnaround: Streams to your Portal continuously once deployed.

Ships in 3 business days

$1,500

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Water Table Watch

Your well and your lake are the same water. Only one of them tells you early.

Measures: Groundwater level

Turnaround: Streams to your Portal continuously once deployed.

Ships once fit is confirmed from your photos

$1,700

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Real-time gear needs a data plan

Every purchase here includes the first season of cellular telemetry. After that, an annual data plan from $149 keeps the sensor streaming, alerting, and landing in your lake's shared record. Plans run 365 days from the start date you choose, and renew with your subscription.

  • Nearshore data plan$149/yr— One dock-mounted station
  • Buoy data plan$349/yr— One buoy with a multi-depth sensor string
  • Bring-your-own hardware plan$199/yr— A sonde, logger, or station you already own
  • Well monitoring data plan$149/yr— One groundwater monitoring well

Questions about this aisle

Before you buy real-time monitoring.

The questions we get most often on this shelf. If yours isn't here, ask — we would rather answer first than sell you the wrong thing.

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Real-time monitoring & lake safety

Continuous sensors and well monitors catch the overnight oxygen crash, the bloom, and the groundwater shift before anyone is awake.

Questions?