Hydstra

a compact time-series water data management system

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expedite environmental data management, analysis & reporting

Hydstra is a fully featured environmental data management package with automation, quality control, hydrological processes, asset management, extensive analysis and reporting.

Hydstra scales from large national and state enterprise systems through to portable single user systems.

Whether you work in hydrology, meteorology, flood control, or dam & reservoir operations, this enterprise software offers specialised functions and simplifies daily workflows.

Product highlights

Scalable deployment

Hydstra scales beautifully from large enterprise SqlServer implementations through to sole operator consultancies. Hydstra scaling means that smaller implementations do not require extensive system and database administrator expertise.

Efficient and performant by design

Hydstra efficiently manages timeseries and discrete observations using and extensive range of standard parameters or an unlimited capacity for user defined parameters.

The highly efficient processing and analysis of observations readily calculates reports and exports ‘on the fly’ without the need to pre-calculate and store analysis data. Hydstra ‘on the fly’ calculation is extremely fast and flexible for analysis functions within Hydstra and integration with third party applications.

Graphical workbench tools

Hydstra delivers productivity with graphical workbench tools for managing observation data, rating tables, shift tables and instrument asset management.

These fully featured and mature tools are always updated to incorporate user driven enhancements.

Extensibility, integration and automation

Our component based design, API’s and automation focus mean Hydstra is readily integrated as the point of truth source for environmental information within your broader enterprise IT landscape.

Your benefits

Fast performance & scalability

Enjoy quick data processing resulting from system architecture & efficient storage. In seconds, retrieve any period of record of continuous data.

Flexible data acquisition & efficient data management

Establish a single time-series data archive by consolidating information from disparate sources. Import protocols are available for nearly all telemetry systems and water monitoring devices in the industry.

Integrate quality data

Garbage in, garbage out. Managing limited resources & addressing complex environmental problems requires quality data. Data visualization-based tools for data validation, evaluation and editing reveal insights into the data.

Effectively manage monitoring asset calibration & maintenance schedules

Capture meta data (e.g. serial numbers, inventory tags, IP addresses, etc.) and organize site visits using Hydstra. Trace monitoring equipment and sensors as they are deployed from storage or repair workshops to active monitoring locations.

Dedicated development and support team

The Hydstra development and support teams are dedicated to the long term and continuous development of Hydstra and web portal products.

Our teams work closely with clients on local extensions and integration project. We have a very long track record strong partnerships of delivering on projects, our client focused staff are key to our successful partnerships

Popular features

Extensive analysis and reporting

Hydstra is shipped with a comprehensive library of analysis reporting and plotting tools. These tools provide detailed statistical analysis across all environmental data along with tools with hydrological and precipitation focus.

Rating curve and stage shift management

Develop stream rating curves with all your data in a consolidated workbench that integrates stream gaugings, river cross sections and timeseries data. Interactive rating development in spaces such as linear, velocity, manning’s, log and power law with dynamic assessment of gaugings in user configured error spaces.

Develop rating shifts and shift periods with integrated workbench the incorporates rating tables, shifts and gaugings producing USGS compliant three point shifts.

Discrete water quality observations

Manage and analyse water quality data from discrete sampling activities. Results may come from onsite observations or from laboratory results that are imported into Hydstra WQ. Results storage includes details on chain of custody information relating to sample events. Hydstra WQ integrates with Hydstra timeseries for extensive analysis and calculation options.

Groundwater monitoring solution

A comprehensive solution for continuous and discrete groundwater observation management along with the storage and reporting of station metadata data including bore constriction, drillers and geologist lithology.

Monitoring asset management

The instruments workbench enables that tracking and calibration management of your fleet of instruments from purchase, store room, site deployment and repair. Mange your instrument asset lifecycle through effective reporting on age, calibration status, repair history and network asset value.

Scalable automation

The Hydstra task server module enables unlimited scaling of automation tasks supporting import, automated quality assurance, reporting and data sharing.

Modelling

Modsyn is a fully integrated powerful synchronous modelling application that provides a highspeed and vector driven approach to completing complex environmental data modelling tasks. The types of problems to which MODSYN is particularly suited include Streamflow routing, Rainfall/runoff modelling, Water allocation, Dam balance, Dam operation and Flood warning.

Web services and APIs

Hydstra exposes a broad number of timeseries, database and reporting functions over the Hydstra API and web services. Additionally, the KiWIS API over Hydstra provides access to the OGC WFS, WMS and SOS services.

Documentation management

The Hydstra metadata management system brings the together storage of database information with support documents such as photos, videos and other related documents of any format.