The SYP sampler, with a satellite link.
SYP* adds Starlink satellite telemetry to the Mark III. Check on a unit and change its sampling schedule from your desk, without a trip to the site.
Why add telemetry
At a remote site you usually find out what the sampler did on the next visit. If a storm came through early, or the battery ran down, or the vials filled before the event peaked, it is too late to do anything about it.
With a satellite link, the unit reports its status, battery and vial count while it is in the field, and you can send it a new schedule. When an atmospheric river is forecast, or the first rain after a long dry spell is on its way, you can shorten the sampling interval as the event arrives instead of setting it weeks ahead and hoping.
Starlink, through a mobile carrier
The sampler carries a SIM card and a small antenna. It uses ordinary 4G where there's coverage and switches to satellite where there isn't, as long as the antenna can see the sky. The satellite service is sold through mobile carriers, such as One NZ in New Zealand, so availability depends on the country.
- Status, battery and vial count
- Schedule changes and event triggers
If you work in a country where no carrier offers the satellite service yet, tell us in the form. It helps us decide where to test.
What stays the same
SYP started as a drip-water sampler for caves, where sites are hard to reach and nothing can be fixed in a hurry. It now runs in remote catchments from alpine headwaters to coastal karst. SYP* keeps that hardware and adds the link.
Status, battery, vial count and schedule changes over satellite.
58 vials, 12-month battery, gravity and pump modes, flow-proportional sampling from an external trigger.
Registration is free. A refundable $50 reservation holds a place in the build queue.
Specifications may change as field testing goes on.
Register interest
Tell us where and what you want to sample. Your answers decide what we test first and which configurations we build.