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
Real-Time Monitoring
LakeTemp Sensor
Temperature is the lake's master variable. This is the cheapest way to stop guessing at it.
$150
Checkout arrives with the store connection. Orders attach to the lake on your account.
Overview
LakeTemp is a compact dock-mounted sensor that tracks surface water temperature hourly, all season. It clamps onto a dock post in minutes with no tools, uploads automatically over Wi-Fi, and runs all season on batteries.
At $150 it is the lowest-cost entry point in the Toolbox, and the readings are visible to the whole lake community rather than one household.
A monitoring subscription is available from $84/yr ($7/mo).
What's measured
1 parameter
| Parameter | Unit | Reading interval |
|---|---|---|
| Surface water temperature | °F / °C | Hourly |
- Surface water temperature
- Unit:
- °F / °C
- Reading interval:
- Hourly
You get
- Hourly readings streamed to your lake's Portal
- Charts in the Analytics Hub and configurable alerts (Plus, Lake Admin, PRO)
How it's produced
- Instrument
- Dock-post temperature sensor, tool-free clamp; battery powered for the season
- Installed by
- You, following the setup guide
- Data transmission
- Wi-Fi
- Monitoring subscription
- Available from $84/yr ($7/mo)
Product category
- Physical ProductShips to you
- Availability
Ships in 3 business days
- Shipping
Flat-rate to your front door. Shipping details
- SKU
DS-TEMP-001
Example result
Example result74.3 °F
24-h range 71.8–76.0 °F
Turnaround
Streams to your Portal continuously once deployed.
What problem does this solve for our lake?
- Temperature drives almost everything else in a lake. Fish habitat, dissolved oxygen saturation, plant growth, stratification, and bloom risk are all downstream of it. It is also the easiest variable to measure and the one most lakes have no record of at all.
- Without a continuous record, every explanation is retrospective and unfalsifiable — the fish kill was "a hot year," the algae was "a warm spring." With one, you have a leading indicator and, after a few seasons, a baseline that makes an unusual year identifiable as it happens rather than in hindsight.
- There is a second effect worth naming, because it is the reason this product outperforms its price. Checking the lake temperature is something people already do, informally, with a foot off the dock. Turning that into a live number the whole lake community can see gives it a daily reason to look at its own data. Engagement is the hardest part of any volunteer monitoring programme, and this is the cheapest thing that produces it.
What's included?
- LakeTemp sensor with wireless temperature tracking
- Hourly surface temperature readings through the season
- Dock-post mounting, tool-free, installed in minutes
- Automatic data upload over Wi-Fi
- Online dashboard viewable from phone or any device
- Community data sharing, so the whole lake community sees the same reading
- All-season battery operation
- Data flows up to the Lake Pulse cloud and back down into your lake's account, where it can be charted in the Analytics Hub, used to trigger alerts, and shared across your lake community
- A monitoring subscription is available from $84/yr ($7/mo).
What's not included
- Installation. It takes minutes and no tools, but you mount it.
- A dock post or equivalent fixed mounting point
- Temperature at depth. This is a surface measurement — the stratification profile requires a buoy.
- Water quality of any kind
- Winter operation. Season use, removed before ice-in.
- Treatment, remediation, or applicator services
Requirements
- A dock post or fixed mounting point at a location representative of the lake, not a shallow sun-trap
- Wi-Fi coverage at the dock
- The same position each season, so year-over-year readings compare
- Removal before ice-in
- A Plus, Lake Admin, or PRO subscription. Syncing a real-time device to a Lake Pulse account requires one of these tiers.
- Contact the Lake Pulse Boathouse if you have questions.
What you get back
Results
- Real-time surface temperature, viewable from anywhere
- Hourly readings building a continuous seasonal record
- A year-over-year baseline that makes an unusual season identifiable while it is happening
- Shared visibility across your lake community — one number everyone can see
- After a few seasons, enough history to flag conditions that precede harmful algae
- Data flows up to the Lake Pulse cloud and back down into your lake's account, where it can be charted in the Analytics Hub, used to trigger alerts, and shared across your lake community
- Results are found in your lake's portal, accessible only to Plus, Lake Admin, and PRO subscription tiers
Pro tips
- Do not mount it in a shallow sunny corner. A sun-trap near shore reads several degrees above the lake and makes the whole record misleading.
- Same post, same depth, every season. The value is comparability, and it is easy to lose for no reason.
- This is the right first purchase for a lake with no monitoring at all. It costs $150, it needs no expertise, and it gets people looking at lake data daily.
- Pair it with a weather station before pairing it with anything else. Air temperature, wind, and solar radiation explain what the water temperature is doing.
- Surface temperature is not the stratification story. If the question is about oxygen at depth or internal loading, this is not the instrument.
- Take it in before ice. It is the most common way a $150 sensor becomes a $150 lesson.
Results sync to the Portal for Plus, Lake Admin, and PRO subscribers
Results from this product land in your lake's shared record in the Portal — next to everything else your lake has ever measured, instead of in an inbox.
Compare subscriptionsAbout these results
Every reading is time-stamped as it is recorded. Readings come from one sensor at one location and depth; conditions elsewhere in the lake can differ, sometimes sharply and within hours. Sensors drift, foul, and occasionally fail, and readings between maintenance and calibration visits may be affected. Gaps in the record are shown as gaps, never filled in. Sensor values are field measurements, not laboratory analyses. Alerts are notifications of a reading, not a safety determination. Results can help you make decisions about safe swimming and water use, but no result is definitive for every place and time. It is always good practice to check posted signs and your state or local health authorities.
Questions on this?
Our team can help you choose the right solution for your lake, explain how results sync to your Portal, or point you to the right subscription.
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