Bathing Water and Recreation
The water changes by the hour.
The testing that governs it does not.
Bathing water safety today runs on a paradox: the water changes by the hour, but the testing that governs it doesn't. Official bathing sites are tested weekly to monthly, using lab based culturing methods that take days to return a result. Contamination doesn't wait that long.
bNovate brings bathing water monitoring online. Our automated flow cytometry platform counts and identifies critical bacteria in minutes, not days, so authorities and operators can catch contamination as it happens, reopen sites up to 2 days faster, and avoid the closures, health risks, and tourism losses that come with acting too late.
Industry use cases
Environmental and public health authorities
Between one scheduled sample and the next, a spike from heavy rain or a sewer overflow can pass entirely undetected, exposing people with no one aware until the next test. Monitoring bacteria online, between those samples, identifies that spike as it happens.
Major events and swimmable cities initiatives
A go or no go call gets made under public scrutiny, often based on a single grab sample that could already be a day or two old. Tracking bacteria levels online throughout the event or season replaces that single snapshot with an ongoing picture.
Municipalities with
tourism exposure
A closure can run longer than the actual risk warrants simply because there's no fast way to confirm a site is safe again. Catching contamination as it happens lets municipalities react and reopen sites up to 2 days faster.
Biopools without disinfection
Without disinfection to fall back on, a biopool has no buffer if bacteria levels start to climb, and a shutdown becomes necessary before anyone sees it coming. Detecting rising levels early gives operators that warning before contamination reaches swimmers.
BactoSense ID
act before contamination reaches people, not after.
Continuous, online and automated monitoring solution that specifically counts coliforms, enterococci and soon E. coli, including organisms that survive disinfection and evade standard tests.
Faster response and reduced public exposure. Get reliable bacteria counts via flow cytometry in <60 minutes.
Ease of use. Operate with minimal intervention, on a rugged, fully-automated design built for demanding field and plant conditions.
Full visibility. Track and document what happens between periodic manual lab samples.
Holding steady through the storm
Rain pushed bacteria counts up 5 times higher, but treated water stayed clean throughout. Less chemical use, same protection, even when conditions change fast.
