WATER MANAGERS DEMAND BETTER, FASTER DATA

摘要

In 1978 OTT launched the Allgomatic - a large desktop device for 'data measurement, storage and transmission,' - it wasn't even called a datalogger. Prior to the Internet and mobile phones, OTT's customers were monitoring water level in boreholes and stilling wells with dip tapes or sensors such as shaft encoders and compressed air bubblers connected to displays, dataloggers or chart recorders. Discharge calculations were based on stage measurements, possibly with a point and hook gauge, combined with manual measurements of velocity with a rotating element current meter. Raingauges were mostly operating with a collection vessel or with a tipping bucket mechanism; recording tips with a connected datalogger. Inevitably, this provided a retrospective view of water resources that was mainly useful for detecting trends and informing models.