An autonomous river station that stains, images and counts microplastic particles in place, reporting continuously instead of in occasional grab samples.
Status: Prototype
Meridian Scientific designs low-cost autonomous instruments for environmental measurement, together with the systems that store and publish what those instruments record.
Most environmental data comes from a small number of expensive stations in a small number of wealthy places. We work at the other end of that with hardware cheap enough to deploy in numbers, rugged enough to be left alone for long periods, and open enough to be useful to people outside the company.
The company is in early development. Its three programmes are at prototype and research stage.
An autonomous river station that stains, images and counts microplastic particles in place, reporting continuously instead of in occasional grab samples.
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