One vessel, expanding intelligence.
A configurable hardware and data platform designed to serve varied waterways, monitoring priorities and deployment partners.
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One autonomous vessel replaces a crew and a fleet of fixed stations — streaming calibrated data as it moves.
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No more crews in the field, no more sensing blind spots, no more waiting for insight. One autonomous platform senses, analyses, and reports in real time — across entire waterways.
Conventional monitoring depends on repeated site visits, exposing personnel to hazardous conditions on every sampling round. Hydro-Sense's autonomous vessels remove that exposure entirely by ensuring both sensing and sampling are handled in the field without a crew, and without the recurring risk of sending people out again and again.
Fixed-station networks mean a fleet of static units, each needing its own site visit for servicing and calibration. Hydro-Sense replaces that fleet with sensor stack deployed using a USV that comes to you. Our sensor stack is also built to address calibration drift and biofouling, which helps extend operating periods minimising the maintenance frequency.
Fixed stations and field sampling methods only cover specific regions within a large water system leaving blind spots between monitoring sites. Our system facilitates continuous survey of the measurement sites from the autonomous system to provide comprehensive spatial coverage across the whole waterway, and consistent temporal coverage over time.
Manual sampling takes days to analyse and is too costly to run often. In-situ sensor networks solve the frequency problem but often require separate third-party software run by qualified personnel to turn it into insight. Hydro-Sense closes both gaps where sensing, analysis, and insight delivery all happen within one integrated platform in a timely and autonomous manner.
Conventional in-situ systems carry high upfront and ongoing costs, often requiring many units for adequate spatial resolution. Hydro-Sense delivers comprehensive coverage from a single or a few autonomous units thereby reducing deployment costs, all while minimising maintenance requirements and resources, thereby reducing the operating costs.
The scroll follows one continuous scene: the USV launches from shore, surveys the lake with a live radar ping, then the signal leaves the vessel, travels off the lake view to satellite, then leaves the satellite and expands into a full dashboard scene.
Every reading is pinned to the route and streamed live: one vessel, whole-water coverage, no routine measurement crew.
Our system is built to service a wide range of needs that different clients require, meaning it can be configured, deployed, and scaled to match the specific demands of each waterway, organisation, or monitoring goal.
Pick the sensors that fit your monitoring goals. Every deployment starts with the questions you're trying to answer, so the stack is configured to cover only the parameters that matter to you, not a fixed, one-size-fits-all bundle. Its modular architecture means sensors, power systems, and communications can be swapped in or out as monitoring requirements change, so the platform evolves with your program rather than being replaced by it.
The sensor stack is purpose-built from the ground up to live inside an unmanned surface vehicle, not adapted from static equipment as an afterthought. That means power, communications, and physical housing are all engineered around continuous, self-navigating survey from day one, thus enabling the platform to operate autonomously across any waterway environment, rather than being tethered to a fixed installation point.
The navigation system begins with a planned coverage route and re-plans coverage routes across a catchment, adapting to the shape and features of the waterbody in real time. Rather than following a rigid, pre-set path, navigation adjusts dynamically to prioritise areas of interest, ensuring the survey effort goes where it matters most over time, not just where it was scheduled to go.
Readings are packaged into an intuitive dashboard that integrates with your existing systems. Our solution is designed to integrate seamlessly with IoT sensor systems and other data sources, bringing everything into one comprehensive analytics view that's accessible anywhere, anytime. Continuous optimisation sits at the core of the platform: data-driven analytics refine and adapt insights over time, so the system gets better at flagging what matters most as it learns from your waterway, thereby supporting pre-emptive, cost-effective water management rather than after-the-fact reporting.
Hydro-Sense is developing a monitoring service that gives governments, industries, and catchment authorities the comprehensive and timely insight they need to manage water quality proactively.
By combining practical deployment with real-time data analytics, Hydro-Sense delivers a single, end-to-end solution — from autonomous field deployment to actionable insight — built to facilitate effective water quality management.
The following are the core design principles that drive our technology:
Water monitoring should not be limited to people with specialist technical training. Our technology is deliberately built with this in mind — designed for minimal-training deployment, so organisations aren't held back by staffing or training costs, and no longer need to send staff into the field for manual sampling. This will result in reducing both cost of monitoring and the present safety risk.
Deploying our sensing stack on autonomous vessels moves monitoring beyond isolated manual samples to richer, real-time data captured repeatedly across the waterway over multiple locations. This enables earlier detection of contamination events, and helps trace them back to their source, giving regulators and water managers the evidence they need to act quickly or enforce accountability.
Water monitoring shouldn't be limited to well-funded organisations, yet high procurement and operating costs often price out smaller organisations and rural catchment authorities. We're changing that with our custom USV deployable sensor stacks, which are built for extended in-situ deployment with minimal maintenance, and personnel requirements.
Hydro-Sense Technologies was established following research that identified a critical gap in affordable, real-time water quality monitoring. Early engagement with CSIRO and the Canberra Innovation Network validated the market opportunity and shaped the technical direction.
Industry networks were deepened and the business model refined. Hydro-Sense secured both the ACT ICON Grant and the ACT Social Enterprise Grant, the first formal investment in the company's development. Representation on the AWA Young Water Professionals ACT Subcommittee and attendance at OzWater 2025 strengthened industry positioning and understanding.
With funding secured, we brought in specialist contractors and the technical talent needed to build our prototype. Prototype V1 was completed and tested, paving the way for Prototype V2, which is a more field-ready and refined iteration currently in development.
YNFounded Hydro-Sense Technologies and leads the company and manages the business strategy and operation. He is a mechatronics engineer with a degree from ANU with skills spanning embedded system design, hardware design and robotics.
CKLeads HydroSense's digital signal processing and embedded software development, building the firmware and signal-processing systems that turn raw sensor data into reliable water-quality measurements.
Explore our open roles and help shape the future of water intelligence.
We are seeking a Water Quality and Industry Specialist with hands-on knowledge of water monitoring technologies and a clear understanding of how government water agencies, catchment authorities and environmental regulators operate — someone who can translate real industry needs into product and commercial direction.
Apply now →We are in search of a skilled engineer with demonstrated experience compiling and structuring data from multiple heterogeneous sources. The role requires strong pipeline architecture and schema design skills, building the data foundation that transforms raw sensor inputs from AMWA and third-party systems into reliable, actionable water quality intelligence.
Apply now →We are seeking a Field Operations and Deployment Specialist to manage the end-to-end logistics of deploying AMWA's sensor systems and unmanned surface vehicles into real-world water environments. The role sits at the intersection of technical operations, client engagement and regulatory compliance, ensuring every deployment is executed safely, documented thoroughly and performing to specification.
Apply now →Seeking a Sensor Design Engineer with expertise in sensor and enclosure development for environmental applications. Must have strong knowledge of ingress protection (IP), fluid mechanics and modular sensor interoperability. The role focuses on designing robust, field-ready sensor systems for real-time water monitoring deployments.
Apply now →Pilot deployment, partnership, or a general question — tell us what you're looking for and we'll be in touch.
Hydro-Sense is building autonomous monitoring infrastructure for a world that needs faster, broader and more defensible water data.
A configurable hardware and data platform designed to serve varied waterways, monitoring priorities and deployment partners.
Utilities, governments and industry are actively looking for technology that provides timely visibility across water assets without multiplying field crews and fixed stations.
Integrated sensing, autonomous navigation and real-time insight create a system built around providing an end-to-end solution to monitoring rather, making our monitoring service both holistic and distinctive.
Investment, strategic partnerships and pilot opportunities.