Instruments & Sensors

IES partners with top-level manufacturers to provide state-of-the-art instrumentation in Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring — from simple product delivery to fully designed, integrated and supported monitoring solutions.

Our Approach

End-to-End Instrumentation Support

IES partners with many top-level manufacturers to provide state-of-the-art instrumentation in Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring. With our staff's expertise, we make sure our clients get the most out of their investment in measurement systems.

We can provide anything from a simple delivery of a known product chosen from our partner manufacturers, to a full design of a solution to fulfil the client's monitoring needs — including guidance on what measurements are needed, choosing the most adequate equipment and software combination, integration, installation, and user training and support for operation and maintenance.

Weather Sensors

Compact and agricultural weather stations for any monitoring need

Water Measurement

Hydrology, irrigation, flood monitoring and oceanography

Air Quality

Trace gas detection, greenhouse gases and optical flow meters

Soil & Agriculture

Soil temperature, moisture, leaf wetness and evaporation

Data Acquisition

Dataloggers, modems, satellite transmitters and power components

Atmospheric Profiling

Microwave radiometers, radar profilers and LIDAR systems

Our Instrument Partners

OSI
Davis Instruments
EKO Instruments
Lufft
Picarro
Radiometrics
SIAP+MICROS
Category 01

Weather Sensors

Today's weather monitoring systems need to be not only reliable in terms of durability and data quality, but must also provide ease of operation, reduced maintenance requirements and energy demand efficiency while working continuously and often in remote, mostly unattended sites.

These features are expected for the best possible acquisition of weather information in the most diverse applications — be it for remote sensing validation or for indispensable local measurements — all of which demand accurate and readily available weather data.

  • Agriculture Weather Stations for precision field monitoring
  • Compact Weather Stations for space-constrained deployments
  • Wind speed, direction, temperature, humidity and pressure sensors
  • Precipitation gauges and snow depth sensors
  • Solar radiation measurement (pyranometers, pyrheliometers)
  • Visibility and present weather sensors
  • Road weather and runway monitoring instruments
  • Low-power designs for remote and off-grid installations

Key Partners

Davis Instruments Lufft OSI EKO Instruments
Weather Monitoring Stations
Category 02

Water Measurement

Water is at the same time a vital need, an element of potentially immense threats, an irreplaceable source of food, and a priceless medium of transportation. IES partners with manufacturers of top-quality water measurement instrumentation across a broad range of applications.

Our water measurement solutions cover applications in Hydrology, Irrigation, Water Quality, Flood Monitoring, Oceanography, Climate and other fields of science, industry and technology that deal with this most important element.

  • Water level sensors and gauges for rivers, lakes and reservoirs
  • Streamflow measurement and discharge monitoring
  • Precipitation measurement — rain gauges and weighing gauges
  • Evaporation monitoring instruments
  • Water quality sampling and analysis systems
  • Flood early warning instrumentation
  • Oceanographic sensors and buoy-based monitoring
  • Irrigation network measurement and control instruments

Key Partners

SIAP+MICROS
Water Measurement Instrumentation
Category 03

Air Quality

The WMO's Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) defines the application and maintenance of global, long-term observations of the chemical composition and selected physical characteristics of the atmosphere with emphasis on quality assurance and control.

The socio-economic consequences of human influence on the atmosphere affect human and ecosystem health, water quality, water supply and agricultural production. In support of Atmospheric Monitoring sciences, IES provides state-of-the-art air quality monitoring solutions. IES also supports the monitoring of emissions from industrial activities with the supply of high-accuracy measurement systems.

  • Trace gas detection including greenhouse gases (CO₂, CH₄, N₂O, H₂O)
  • Portable gas analyzers for field and mobile deployment
  • Stack, duct and tunnel optical flow meters
  • High-accuracy air flow sensors for stacks, ducts and channels
  • Long-base flow sensors for ambient safety in aluminium smelters
  • Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) analyzers
  • Aerosol concentration and particle size measurement
  • Ambient air quality monitoring network integration

Key Partners

Picarro Inc.
Air Quality Monitoring
Category 04

Soil & Agriculture

Timely, accurate and site-specific environment conditions can be key for decision making in the Agriculture sector. Ultimately, yield can be greatly dependent on actions and procedures based on the proper assessment of critical environmental variables.

IES provides instrumentation tailored to agricultural and soil science applications — enabling farmers, agronomists and researchers to monitor the variables that directly drive crop productivity and field management decisions.

  • Soil temperature sensors at multiple depths
  • Soil moisture and volumetric water content sensors
  • Leaf wetness measurement for disease risk assessment
  • Evaporation and evapotranspiration monitoring
  • Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) sensors
  • Agricultural weather stations with crop-specific configurations
  • In-field sensor networks for precision agriculture
  • Data logging and telemetry for remote farm sites

Key Partners

Davis Instruments EKO Instruments
Soil and Agriculture Sensors
Category 05

Data Acquisition & Communications

Hydrometeorological and environmental data often need to be acquired continuously, from various types of instruments in remote, harsh and unattended conditions. High programmability, reliability, durability, power economy and flexibility are essential.

IES can select the most adequate configurations to offer clients in response to their data acquisition requirements, adapting to the needs and conditions of each case. Whether it's a single AWS site or a national network of hundreds of stations, we match the right hardware to your operational environment.

  • Dataloggers — programmable, multi-channel, low-power designs
  • Radio modems for point-to-point and mesh network telemetry
  • Cellular modems (2G/3G/4G/LTE) for networked deployments
  • Satellite transmitters (Argos, Iridium, GOES, Meteosat) for remote sites
  • Power components: solar panels, batteries, charge controllers
  • Enclosures and mounting systems for harsh environments
  • Data quality control and validation software integration
  • SCADA and central data management system connectivity

Key Partners

SIAP+MICROS Davis Instruments
Data Acquisition and Communications
Category 06

Atmospheric Profiling & Remote Sensing

Measurements of air temperature, humidity, pressure and winds through the full height of the atmospheric layers are crucial for accurate understanding and forecasting of weather. Remote sensing allows more economic, continuous and flexible gathering of this data across the atmosphere's depth.

IES partners with manufacturers of state-of-the-art instruments for profiling the troposphere, stratosphere and boundary layer. These systems are used by meteorological services, research institutions, military agencies and energy operators worldwide for applications ranging from weather forecasting to wind energy resource assessment.

  • Microwave Radiometers for temperature and humidity profiling
  • Radar Wind Profilers (RAPTOR® boundary layer and tropospheric)
  • LIDAR Aerosol Detection — concentration and particle characterization
  • LIDAR Wind Profiling for boundary layer and turbine height assessment
  • Ceilometers for cloud base height and aerosol layer detection
  • Aerosol and particle concentration quantification
  • Greenhouse effect and radiation study instrumentation
  • Wind energy resource characterization at hub height

Key Partners

RDX Lufft
Atmospheric Profiling and Remote Sensing
Notable Deployment

IES supplied a network of 20 Radiometrics microwave atmospheric profiling radiometers to the Indian Air Force in partnership with Radiometrics Corporation — one of the largest single-order deployments of this technology in the region.

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