Tide and Flood Systems & Custom Sensor Networks

Monitor water levels with our Tide and Flood system, or use our services to develop a custom sensor network.

Smart Tide & Flood Systems

Our smart devices are split into two systems to handle the needs of customers of any size. Homeowners and waterfront businesses are served through Tide Alerts™ while Flood Levels™ serves towns and communities.

  • Both systems use the same solar-powered, cellular-connected wireless gauges for accurate water level measurements.
  • The Tide and Flood systems use separate applications to collect and display the gauge data.
Tide and Flood Systems & Custom Sensor Networks
Tide and Flood Systems & Custom Sensor Networks

Tide Alerts
Tide Gauge Network

Designed for individuals and businesses, the Tide Alerts system displays live tide information from gauges in our network.

  • View live public data with the Tide Alerts application, including a map of the stations and charts for each station. At stations with good tidal data, predictions are performed to generate tide calendars and tables and to display forecasted levels on the charts.
  • Tide levels are very local and vary significantly from place to place even over short distances. This difference is very pronounced in bays, estuaries and tidal rivers.
  • The vast majority of smaller coastal bodies of water do not have accurate tidal forecasts. Even when they are available, water levels are often much higher or lower than expected due to the effects of wind.
  • Local tide gauges can provide vital insights such as when water is too low for safe navigation, too high for bridge clearance, or reaching flood-risk levels.
Tide and Flood Systems & Custom Sensor Networks
Tide and Flood Systems & Custom Sensor Networks

Flood Levels
Flood Monitoring Networks

Flood Levels is designed for municipalities, offering flood alerts for emergency management and historical data for planning and mitigation. Flood Levels is suitable for both coastal and inland communities.

  • A network of gauges are placed at key locations throughout a community to provide live monitoring data. Water levels from the gauges are available on an easy-to-interpret map-based interface for emergency management. Coastal locations typically also include one or more tide gauges.
  • Water levels are displayed relative to ground level, NAVD88 (the datum used by NOAA and FEMA for flood mapping), or tidal mean-lower-low-water at coastal locations.
  • Historical data is available for planning and flood mitigation.
Tide and Flood Systems & Custom Sensor Networks
Tide and Flood Systems & Custom Sensor Networks

Custom solutions

Sentient Things provides engineering, integration, and operational services to bring connected monitoring and control systems from concept to long-term operation.
  • Core Capabilities
    We specialize in the design and development of connected devices. This includes strategy, hardware, firmware, cloud and operational services.
  • Use cases
    Wherever connected devices are needed - the applications are broad and include - enviromental and coastal monitoring, energy and building and commercial connected products
  • Representative Projects
    Aquascape connected pond pump, Feed and Go WiFi connected per feeder, Zeptive vape detection hardware and cloud integration, and energy monitoring systems used to validate heat-pump efficiency in residential and commercial installations.

Explore monitoring solutions

Select a product line or contact us for custom environmental sensing applications.

Tide Alerts
Personal tide monitoring for individuals and businesses.
  • Solar-powered
  • Cellular connection
  • Local tide forecasting
  • Real-time web app access
  • Calendar integration
  • Tilt or ultrasonic sensors
Flood Levels
Reliable municipal flood monitoring networks.
  • Grouped station dashboards
  • Tide and flood sensors
  • Multi-datum support (ground, NAVD88)
  • Custom branded web apps
Custom Solutions
Monitoring tailored to your needs.
  • Energy measurement systems
  • Scalable network architecture
  • White-label applications

Deploy real-time monitoring

Discuss your application requirements and receive a custom solution proposal.