River & Flood Level Monitoring — Know the Level Without Driving to the Bank

Rivers, streams, storm tanks and drainage channels are still widely checked the old way — someone drives out and looks. TITAN IoT delivers autonomous level monitoring that reports remotely instead: battery-powered sensors over the water, readings and alerts to your dashboard, options from LoRaWAN and cellular to satellite for sites beyond all coverage. Built on Rochester Sensors’ field-proven monitoring platform, supported from Galway.

Talk About a Monitoring Scheme

No More Site Visits

Levels reported remotely on schedule and on alarm

Fully Autonomous

Battery powered — no mains, no infrastructure at the water

Any Site, Any Coverage

LoRaWAN, cellular — and satellite for the truly remote

Proven Platform

Rochester Sensors — millions of level sensors deployed worldwide

The Essentials

What Is River Level Monitoring?

River level monitoring measures the height of water in a river, stream, tank or channel continuously and reports it remotely, replacing manual gauge readings and site visits. A battery-powered level sensor — mounted on a bridge, bank structure or buoy above the water — measures the distance to the surface, logs it, and transmits readings over LoRaWAN, cellular or satellite to a monitoring platform that charts trends and raises alerts when levels rise toward flood thresholds or fall toward abstraction limits. Because the sensors are autonomous, they suit exactly the places flooding happens: remote, unpowered, and awkward to visit.

The same measurement solves groundwater and borehole monitoring — a sensor down a stilling tube instead of over a river.

Where It Matters

Levels Worth Watching

Flood-Prone Rivers & Streams

Early warning for councils, communities and sites downstream — a rising trend seen hours early is worth more than a flood confirmed in person.

Storm & Attenuation Tanks

Capture and attenuation tanks under stadiums, car parks and developments need level visibility to prove they’re working — we’ve monitored exactly these for a major Irish stadium project.

Groundwater & Boreholes

Replacing loggers that must be visited to download. Our current deployment for a European industrial plant measures groundwater through a stilling tube and reports remotely — ending the site-visit routine entirely.

Abstraction & Compliance

Quarries, farms and industrial abstractions increasingly need level records for licensing — continuous data beats occasional readings for both compliance and early warning.

In Development

Next: Buoy-Mounted Sonar, Fully Autonomous

We’re working with Rochester Sensors on the next generation of their autonomous monitoring platform: a low-power sonar level sensor designed for buoy mounting in rivers and open water — measuring from the water itself, totally autonomous, nothing to build on the bank. The same device family is designed to serve wastewater and septic tank monitoring.

It builds on the platform behind the field-proven TEK 822 cellular logger — the architecture already deployed in the millions across Rochester’s range — with a satellite-connected variant on the roadmap for sites beyond all terrestrial coverage.

Launching soon. Register interest and we’ll scope your sites against it — and where monitoring can’t wait, today’s Rochester sensor range covers most schemes now.

Rochester Sensors TEK 822 cellular logger — the proven platform behind the next-generation sonar level sensor

The TEK 822 cellular logger — the proven platform the new sonar generation builds on

FAQ

River Monitoring Questions, Answered

What is river level monitoring?

It’s continuously measuring the height of water in a river, stream, tank or channel with a remote sensor, and reporting readings and alerts to a monitoring platform — replacing manual gauge reads and site visits. Sensors are battery powered and mount on bridges, bank structures or buoys, transmitting over LoRaWAN, cellular or satellite.

Does it need power or infrastructure at the river?

No — the sensors are battery powered and autonomous, designed for multi-year operation without mains power. That’s what makes remote and flood-prone locations practical: nothing to build except the mounting point, and with buoy-mounted sensing, potentially not even that.

What if the site has no mobile coverage?

LoRaWAN covers sites within reach of a gateway; cellular covers most of Ireland; and for locations beyond both, a satellite-connected sensor variant is on the roadmap — designed for the genuinely remote schemes where no terrestrial network reaches.

Can it alert us when levels rise?

Yes — thresholds are set per site, and the platform alerts when a level crosses them or trends toward them, so a rising river is flagged while there’s still time to act rather than confirmed after the fact.

Is this available today or coming?

Both. Rochester’s current sensor range monitors tanks, groundwater and enclosed levels today — our live deployments include stadium capture tanks and industrial groundwater. The buoy-mounted sonar generation for open rivers is in development; register interest and we’ll scope your sites against both.

Stop Driving Out to Check Levels

Tell us the sites — rivers, tanks, boreholes — and we’ll scope a monitoring scheme, today’s sensors or the next generation.

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TITAN IoT Ltd · Racecourse Business Park, Ballybrit, Galway, H91 A9NN
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