LPWAN SOLUTIONS
Remote Underground Waterway Storm Water level monitoring
Innovative, real-time solution for efficient monitoring and management of stormwater levels in remote underground waterways, facilitating effective water management practices.
Effective stormwater level monitoring
Enhanced water management
Near Real-time data for timely interventions
Reduced flood risks and associated damages.
Solution
The Remote Underground Waterway Storm Water Level Monitoring Solution provides near-real-time water depth, subterranean channel flow dynamics, surcharge alerts, overflow tracking, and flood risk warnings for underground stormwater culverts, urban drainage networks, manholes, and subterranean conduits without the expense or complexity of traditional wired telemetry. Engineered to endure continuous water submersion, high-moisture environments, and heavy debris loads, the system arrives fully pre-configured out of the box to automatically stream encrypted sensor telemetry directly to the Ellenex Software Platform.
This IoT-driven drainage monitoring solution offers several key operational benefits:
Zero-Touch Subterranean Deployment: Delivered fully pre-programmed for instant plug-and-play installation in under 5 minutes without requiring local software setup, driver downloads, or manual developer provisioning.
Flexible Dual LPWAN Protocols: Freedom to choose between LoRaWAN® (ideal for private municipal or industrial plant networks with zero ongoing airtime fees) or NB-IoT / LTE-M (for direct-to-tower public cellular connectivity across spread-out urban drainage mains).
Submersible Hydrostatic Precision: Features an IP68-rated 316L stainless steel submersible pressure sensor head capable of continuous submersion up to 100 meters.
Heavy-Duty Weatherproof Build: Features an IP68 UV-stabilized transmitter enclosure designed for high-humidity manhole atmospheres, coupled with through-lid and underground pit antenna assemblies for maximum wireless propagation.
Low Total Cost of Ownership: Powered by an internal replaceable 3.6V Lithium battery combined with ultra-low-power firmware management to achieve maintenance-free operational lifespans of up to 10 years.
Rapid Capital Return: Accelerates ROI by preventing disastrous urban flash floods, identifying culvert blockages early, protecting vital civil infrastructure, and reducing manual inspection entry risks. Learn More
Easy Install
Pre-Configured
Secure
Quick ROI
Rugged Design
Battery Operated
Our Remote Underground Waterway Storm Water Level Monitoring Solution provides a comprehensive approach to efficient urban drainage management and flood risk mitigation. By leveraging cutting-edge technology in IP68 submersible hydrostatic level sensors, municipal operators, civil engineers, and facility managers can track, control, and optimize subterranean water flow in real time. The result is a future-proof solution that not only addresses current operational challenges—detecting culvert blockages and predicting sewer/drain surcharges early—but also adapts to the changing demands of industrial compliance, ultimately protecting public safety, urban infrastructure, and environmental health.
Connecting dark underground waterways, storm culverts, and municipal drainage conduits to a central digital network transforms static civil infrastructure into an intelligent stormwater monitoring network. By streaming continuous sensor telemetry directly to a cloud dashboard, municipal managers gain complete visibility over subterranean water movement while eliminating blind spots across urban drainage catchments.
Asset Visibility
Continuous telemetry from IP68 submersible hydrostatic sensors provides total operational visibility across widely distributed stormwater culverts and subterranean drainage conduits. By visualizing real-time water depth, channel fill percentages, and probe submersion status on a centralized mobile app or web dashboard, municipal engineers can monitor subterranean capacity and track water flow dynamics across the entire city without conducting dangerous confined-space manual inspections.
Resilient Operation
Submersible 316L stainless steel hardware combined with an IP68-rated transmitter enclosure ensures uncompromised structural reliability in damp, highly corrosive underground pit environments subject to continuous water immersion and heavy debris loads. Automated surcharge warnings and rapid water rise rate alerts instantly notify emergency dispatchers of culvert blockages or impending urban overflows, allowing municipal field teams to clear drainage bottlenecks before surface flooding damages roads and commercial properties.
Battery-Powered Remote Underground Waterway Storm Water Level Monitoring With LoRaWAN® Or NB-IoT / LTE-M Connectivity For Municipal And Urban Drainage Networks.
Core Operational Capabilities
IP68 Submersible Hydrostatic Level Sensor Probe (316L Stainless Steel)
LoRaWAN / NB-IoT / LTE-M
IP68 Submersible Sensor
• IP68 UV-Protected Enclosure
Up to 10-Year Battery Life
Cloud / API / SCADA Integration
Through-Lid / Underground Pit High-Gain Antenna Assemblies
Efficient Monitoring of Remote Underground Waterways with Ellenex IoT-enabled Submersible Level Sensors
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Effective stormwater level monitoring in remote underground waterways is crucial to prevent disastrous floods and protect vital infrastructure.
Industrial Outdoor LoRaWAN Gateway Specifications
For customers deploying the LoRaWAN package, the high-performance industrial gateway provides complete self-managed coverage. It is pre-configured to forward packet data to the Ellenex Platform.
System Architecture
The integrated Solution telemetry platform is designed around a dual-LPWAN (Low Power Wide Area Network) hardware architecture, giving operators the flexibility to deploy either LoRaWAN or cellular-based (supporting NB-IoT and LTE Cat M1) network configurations depending on local infrastructure and regional topology. Both communication technologies represent the cutting edge of industrial IoT, designed to penetrate challenging physical barriers and achieve multi-kilo meter propagation distances while maintaining extremely low electrical current draws.
The Ellenex telemetry pipeline follows a streamlined 4-step end-to-end data flow designed to give customers total choice over their network infrastructure and software platform:
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Sensor: The single Ellenex battery-powered field device directly measures physical parameters, digitizes analog signals, applies factory calibration parameters, packages telemetry into AES-128 encrypted payloads, and manages low-power sleep modes within a unified unit. Learn More:
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Wireless Infrastructure Options:
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Option A (LoRaWAN Option): Transmits sub-GHz radio packets to an Ellenex Pre-Configured Outdoor Gateway. The gateway acts as a transparent Layer-1/Layer-2 RF-to-IP bridge. Learn More
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Option B (Cellular NB-IoT / LTE-M Option): Transmits encrypted telemetry directly across licensed 3GPP cellular networks to public mobile base station towers. Learn More.
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3. Network Core & Data Routing Layer: Encrypted sub-GHz packets are securely routed from the gateway to the Ellenex Network Server (LNS). The LNS manages crucial network functions—including device authentication, payload decryption, and frame deduplication—ensuring clean, secure sensor data is seamlessly delivered to Ellenex Software Platform.
4. Data Processing & Platform Visualization: All telemetry is ingested, decoded, and visualized seamlessly within the Ellenex Cloud Software Platform. The software transforms raw sensor data into actionable insights through real-time dashboards, historical trend analysis, threshold alerting, and device health management.
Connectivity & Visualisation Platform
With its advanced features and ease of use, Ellenex’s software platform enables effective monitoring and management of remote operations—ensuring efficient, sustainable, and reliable resource management.
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Encrypted ultra-low power communication protocol.
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Advanced device inventory.
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Integration of APIs for enterprise systems.
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Multi-tenant role-based access control.
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Data export and import.
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White-label platform for enterprise runs on private accounts.
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Variable alarm setting for high and low thresholds and multi-channel alerting.
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Sampling and transmission interval configuration.
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Transmission condition configuration.
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Other configurations and customizations available on request.
Ellenex's software platform is a comprehensive, user-friendly solution specifically designed for remote monitoring and management.
The platform offers a robust range of features tailored for off grid, distributed, and critical operations, including:
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Real-Time Data Visualization: Monitor live operational status, levels, and key metrics across all your locations from a centralized dashboard.
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Customizable Alerts & Notifications: Receive instant warnings for threshold breaches, sudden drops, or anomalous activity before minor issues become costly failures.
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Historical Data Analysis & Predictive Analytics: Track consumption patterns, analyze usage trends, and forecast future demand to optimize maintenance and supply schedules.
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Seamless System & API Integration: Easily feed raw or aggregated telemetry into your existing enterprise software, SCADA, or ERP systems using Ellenex’s secure Open API.
Key Benefits
Ellenex Software Platform Dashboard
Individual Device Details & Data Analytics View
Parameter Configuration and GPS Location View
Device Management Interface
Historical Data & Performance Analytics
Remote Command and Downlink Control Log
Ellenex Asset Monitoring App
Custom alert and Notification Setup Interface
Data Export and Reporting Interface
Webhook and Data Forwarding Interface
Sensor Calibration and Formula Configuration
Integration Options
A core competitive advantage of the solution is its complete pre-configured, plug-and-play design. Both the cellular and LoRaWAN (with local gateway) variants arrive fully configured and ready for connection to the Ellenex platform out of the box, eliminating the complexities of local software setup, sensor programming, or manual network registration.
The end-to-end package includes the following integration characteristics:
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Zero Technical Hassles: No extra power tools, driver setup, or developer configurations are required. Deployment is completed in under 5 minutes.
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Pre-Configured Gateway Provisioning: The industrial outdoor gateway is pre-commissioned to automatically bind with the Ellenex LNS stack. Once powered via PoE or DC, it immediately discovers sensors, decrypts the payloads, and relays them directly to the centralized cloud dashboard, seamlessly routing data to the Ellenex Platform.
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Pre-Configured SIM & Connectivity: For NB-IoT deployments, the transmitter is shipped with a pre-configured 4FF Nano-SIM card and active carrier subscription, ready to transmit on regional networks immediately upon power-up.
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Unified Fleet Visualization: Once powered on, both device variants automatically check in and populate their respective live measurement streams to the user’s centralized mobile app or web dashboard.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the Remote Underground Waterway Storm Water Level Monitoring Solution function in subterranean drainage environments?
The Remote Underground Waterway Storm Water Level Monitoring Solution uses an IP68-rated 316L stainless steel hydrostatic pressure sensor placed at the invert of an underground culvert, stormwater channel, or manhole. The sensor measures the hydrostatic pressure exerted by the overlying water column and converts it into accurate water depth readings. The surface or pit-mounted transmitter packages these metrics—along with probe submersion status and battery health—into encrypted payloads and broadcasts them wirelessly via LoRaWAN® or NB-IoT/LTE-M to the Ellenex Software Platform for live visualization.
How do I install the Remote Underground Waterway Storm Water Level Monitoring Solution inside a stormwater pit or culvert?
Installation requires no specialized electrical wiring, developer configuration, or complex software setup. Field personnel lower the weighted IP68 hydrostatic probe to the bottom of the drainage channel, secure the heavy-duty polyurethane cable along the pit wall using protective mounting clips, and fix the IP68 UV-stabilized enclosure under the pit roof or onto an adjacent structure. For deep cast-iron manholes, through-lid antenna accessories can be attached to pass the wireless signal to the street surface. Once switched on, the pre-configured system automatically registers and starts logging data directly on your Ellenex Software Platform dashboard.
How does the sensor handle heavy mud, silt, or debris accumulation in underground channels?
The 316L stainless steel submersible probe features a recessed sensing diaphragm specifically designed to handle turbid water, mud, and organic sediment without clogging. While the probe rests flat at the bottom of the channel, its IP68 construction protects the internal piezoresistive element against continuous immersion up to 100 meters. In channels subject to heavy gravel movement, mounting brackets can suspend the probe slightly above the sediment bed to maintain consistent liquid depth accuracy.
How do automated alerts work on the Ellenex Software Platform during sudden flash flooding events?
The Ellenex Software Platform incorporates a dynamic multi-channel alerting framework. Operators can set customized dynamic high-water thresholds, culvert blockage alerts, and rapid water rise rate warnings. If torrential rainfall causes subterranean drainage levels to surge past safe operating margins, the platform immediately triggers real-time alerts via SMS, email, or app notifications to emergency response crews and municipal engineers, enabling rapid intervention before road surfaces flood.
What wireless connectivity option is best for underground pits with heavy cast-iron or concrete lids?
The Remote Underground Waterway Storm Water Level Monitoring Solution offers two primary LPWAN configurations: LoRaWAN® (-L) and Cellular LPWAN (-N) supporting NB-IoT and LTE Cat-M1. The cellular NB-IoT variant (-N) incorporates a +20 dB link budget enhancement within 3GPP standards to punch signals through heavy concrete and asphalt. For deep metal manhole covers, Ellenex supplies specialized through-lid low-profile antenna options that route the signal cleanly above ground, ensuring uninterrupted data flow to the Ellenex Software Platform regardless of subterranean obstacles.
How does atmospheric pressure compensation work in sealed underground pits?
Barometric weather shifts can alter pressure readings in sealed subterranean environments. The solution solves this by incorporating a high-grade polyurethane cable equipped with an internal capillary vent tube. This tube dynamically balances the internal pressure reference of the submersible sensor face against surrounding atmospheric pressure at the transmitter enclosure, automatically canceling out weather-induced pressure changes and delivering true liquid level measurements year-round.
What routine maintenance is required for the system over its operational lifetime?
The system is built to be virtually maintenance-free. Powered by an internal replaceable 3.6V Lithium ($\text{LiSOCl}_2$) primary battery and managed by ultra-low-power firmware, it eliminates the need for solar panels, external wiring, or routine battery recharges. Depending on the data transmission intervals set on the Ellenex Software Platform (such as 15-minute or bi-hourly reporting), the system achieves a field battery lifespan of up to 10 years before requiring a simple battery swap.
