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We manufacture & supply real-time systems for environmental observations

Rijswijk, Nederland
Joined April 2019
Wave height and sea surface temperature, measured in real time and streamed straight to your browser. Meet the OBS-Buoy 400. A self-contained wave buoy that just gets on with it: ▸ Battery-powered, no mains or shore power needed ▸ Live to the Obscape Data Portal, view, chart and download from anywhere ▸ Built for the conditions it sits in, salt, sun and swell ▸ Field-proven on deployments around the world Reliable wave monitoring for ports, coastal management, marine construction and environmental work. #WaveData #WaveBuoy #MetOcean #CoastalMonitoring #EnvironmentalMonitoring #OceanTech
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Out in the field, a sensor is only as good as the box keeping it alive and online. Every gauge, camera, weather or water-quality station you put in the field needs two things to earn its keep: power, and a way to get its data home. That's the whole job of the PTM, our Power & Telemetry Module. - Solar and battery: deploy once, run for years, no mains, no site visits - Cellular telemetry, with optional satellite: data home no matter where the device is located - Can even turn a standard navigation buoy into a smart, data-gathering one Not the part you notice. The part you can't do without. #Telemetry #RemoteMonitoring #OffGrid #EnvironmentalMonitoring #IoT #OceanTech
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Cleaning up our waterways takes more than one clever idea. It takes people who understand the problem, and tools you can trust in the field. That is what brought Obscape and Noria | Urban Plastic Soup Solutions together, a Delft-based company tackling urban "plastic soup," the floating litter clogging our city waterways. Their approach: Research, Remove, Reduce. Read the full story: site.obscape.com/cleaning-up… #PlasticSoup #PlasticPollution #EnvironmentalMonitoring #CleanRivers #WaterQuality
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It doesn't always go to plan. We are scientists and engineers. We build wave buoys, weather and water quality stations, cameras, and the telemetry that gets the data home. Making slick videos about it is not quite what we trained for. Turns out, getting the take right can be harder than getting the tech right. Rugged kit. Slightly less rugged humans. #EnvironmentalMonitoring #OceanTech #BehindTheScenes #TeamCulture #Engineering #MetOcean
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A site survey tells you exactly what conditions were like — on the day of the survey. The problem is what happens between site surveys. The storm surge, the flood peak, the turbidity spike after heavy rain, the pre-dawn oxygen crash — the events that actually drive decisions rarely land on a survey date. Continuous monitoring fills those gaps: - You see the event as it happens, not weeks later in a report - Threshold alerts flag the moment something crosses a limit - You build a real baseline — what's normal for this site, so the abnormal stands out - Every reading is comparable across seasons and storms Site surveys still have their place. But when the environment changes fast, the record that matters is the continuous one. #EnvironmentalMonitoring #RealTimeData #CoastalMonitoring #MetOcean #Hydrology #WaterQuality #Hydrography
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Tech Tip with Shawn: no cell network on the SIM Setting up your new device but you get an error ...no cell network on the SIM In this Tech Tip, Shawn walks through the easy troubleshooting steps. For more Tech Talks with Shawn YouTube: youtu.be/f5AZ-_y0myc #EnvironmentalMonitoring #RemoteMonitoring #Telemetry #FieldTips #IoT #TechTip
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Blog alert: One login. Every site. No subscription. If you run environmental monitoring, you know the usual story: one platform for the buoys, another for the weather station, a separate export for the water-quality data, and a monthly bill for each. Your data ends up scattered, and half of it lives on someone else's meter. The Obscape Data Portal works differently. Every device we make streams to one place, so you get: ▸ Buoys, weather stations, water-quality sondes, cameras and level gauges, all on a single screen ▸ Threshold alerts the moment a reading crosses a limit, so you see it coming, not after ▸ Full history beside live data, and direct API access as standard ▸ A live view you can share with a colleague, client or regulator in seconds And the part people don't expect: there's no subscription. We're a hardware company, so the portal comes with the kit. No per-seat fees, no annual licence. Your data stays yours. It's sensor-agnostic too, so it works with the instruments you may already own. We wrote about how it all fits together, and why it's built this way, on Obscape Insights: site.obscape.com/one-portal-… #EnvironmentalMonitoring #DataPortal #RemoteMonitoring #MetOcean #Hydrology
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A number tells you the water level. It doesn't tell you why it moved. Pairing a radar level gauge and a time-lapse camera is a great way to understand the data. Now every reading comes with a matching image: you can check your site remotely and see what's driving the spikes. It's more than just a figure on a screen. Read our latest blog on Obscape Insights: lnkd.in/dBWWYE-u Measure it, and see it. #WaterLevelMonitoring #RadarLevelGauge #TimeLapseCamera #Hydrology #FloodMonitoring
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You can't protect what you don't understand. Today is Marine Protected Areas Day — a global moment to recognise the stretches of ocean we set aside to protect, and the life that depends on them. But an MPA is only as good as our understanding of it. Protection works when we can actually see what's happening beneath the surface — water temperature and quality, waves and currents, turbidity, and the slow changes a single survey would miss. You can't manage a marine environment you can't see, and you can't prove protection is working without a baseline to measure against. That's the part we care about: giving the people who look after these places the real-time data to do it well. Here's to everyone protecting our oceans — and to the goal of 30% protected by 2030. 🌍 #MPADay #MarineProtectedAreas #OceanConservation #30x30 #EnvironmentalMonitoring #OceanDecade
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Built for real world monitoring Coasts, harbours, rivers, dams, offshore — the readings that drive real decisions rarely come from somewhere convenient. So that's where our kit goes. ▸ Solar-powered and off-grid — no mains, no cabinet, no monthly site visit ▸ Cellular telemetry, satellite — get your data from anywhere ▸ Streaming live to the Obscape Data Portal — thresholds, alerts, full history ▸ Built for harsh environments — salt, spray, sun and swell, season after season Because a monitoring network only earns its keep when the data keeps arriving — especially when conditions are at their worst. Real conditions. Real-time data. Wherever your site is, we can help you measure it — and make the data usable. #EnvironmentalMonitoring #CoastalMonitoring #WaterLevel #MetOcean #RemoteMonitoring #Telemetry
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