BactoSense® ID
Specific bacteria.
Continuous insight.
BactoSense ID automatically monitors and specifically counts coliforms, enterococci and soon E.coli, delivering reliable results in under 60 minutes. Complementing regulatory testing, it provides continuous operational visibility between laboratory samples, helping water professionals detect change, verify treatment performance and make better-informed decisions.
Faster response and reduced public exposure
Get reliable bacteria counts via flow cytometry in under 60 minutes.
Ease of use
Operate with minimal intervention, on a rugged, fully automated design built for demanding field and plant conditions.
Optimized operations
Manual sampling only catches problems after they have spread.
Full visibility
Track and document what happens between periodic manual lab samples.
Industry use cases
Wastewater treatment
For plant operators under regulatory scrutiny or managing water reuse
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Catch a permit breach before it becomes a fine. Continuous monitoring closes the gap that manual sampling leaves between one test and the next.
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Cut electricity and chemical use. Disinfection is adjusted to actual bacteria levels instead of a fixed, conservative schedule.
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Build trust in reused water. Continuous data gives operators traceability if a downstream contamination needs to be investigated.
Bathing water & recreation
For public health authorities, municipalities and event organisers
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Support faster reopening decisions. Continuous monitoring identifies quality changes as they happen, instead of waiting on lab turnaround.
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Defensible decisions under public scrutiny. Bacteria levels are tracked continuously through an event or tourist season, not estimated from the last grab sample.
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Early warning before a shutdown is forced. Pools and biopools running without disinfection get advance notice of rising bacteria levels, before contamination reaches swimmers.
The technology behind
BactoSense ID is built on our proven industrial flow cytometry technology. Rather than culturing bacteria for days, or reading a bulk water signal to infer that cells are present, individual cells are counted one by one.
Specificity comes from biology itself: Specific enzymes inside the target cells turn our reagents into a measurable label. The result is not an estimate or a probability, but a real cell concentration you can trend, alarm on, and act upon.
Because detection does not depend on a cell's ability to multiply, BactoSense ID also picks up organisms that survive disinfection and evade standard culture-based tests.
Reagents come in ready-to-use, high-capacity cartridges, each specific to one critical indicator organism. No reagent handling, long autonomy, results and alarms delivered straight to you.
A technology designed to make your life easier
BactoSense is the world's first fully automated microbial monitoring platform for water, defining what online microbial monitoring looks like today. Built in Switzerland, trusted by major names in drinking water and utilities, pharma, food and beverage, and industrial firms worldwide.
Extend BactoSense with connected solutions that grow with your operations
Connected by BactoCloud: one dashboard for your whole fleet, alerts before issues become incidents, full asset control and the power of data analytics.
Expanded by BactoSwitch: one instrument, up to four water sources, wider coverage and deeper insight.
Supported by BactoCare: operational peace of mind, backed by premium support.
1,000,000+
automated tests delivered every year
500+
systems safeguarding water worldwide
24/7
uninterrupted monitoring
