HEADLINE 4 WATER BLOGGED Patrick Higgins, Digital Marketing & Social Manager Patrick.Higgins@Xyleminc.com Water Blogged How a Bus Ad Was the Start of a Beautiful Friendship It sounds like the start of a romantic comedy, the ultimate “meet cute” setup—a lovely friendship starts from random glances at a bus stop. But that's exactly how Justin Stockley, the Southeast Asia Surface Water Manager for Xylem in Perth, Australia, connected with nearby Edith Cowan University (ECU). Driving his daughter to basketball practice, Stockley noticed a splashy advertisement for ECU’s School of Engineering plastered across the back of a city bus. There, larger than life, an eager young student was pictured beside the university’s flume. Dominating the frame was a SonTek FlowTracker Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter (ADV). Get Ready Beside the FlowTracker was the headline “Get Ready,” the driving ethic behind ECU School of Engineering's practical focus. With 27,000 students—including 4,000 international students representing more than 100 countries—ECU is home to the fastest-growing engineering school in Western Australia. Intrigued, Stockley contacted ECU to find out what they were doing with the FlowTracker... Comparing the YSI ProDSS vs EXO Water Quality Meters (Transcribed from a Facebook Live event) Patrick: Today, we are joined by two of our most eminent product managers, in the left corner, Laura St. Pierre, and in the right corner, Dr. Stephanie Smith. They're going to help me answer a question today that we get frequently through our website, "What's the right water quality monitoring platform for me?” Is it Laura St. Pierre's ProDSS sampling system, or is it Dr. Stephanie Smith's EXO platform? Laura: The ProDSS itself is really compact in size and any sensor can fit into the ports. You can measure up to 17 parameters and its designed for creeks, rivers, streams, coastal applications and groundwater. If you need help monitoring water quality, the ProDSS can help you. It's compact and can be operated with one hand. So it's really designed to be portable. The idea is that you go out and spot sample with this product. Stephanie: And I have what we consider the Cadillac product of the EXO line. This is called the EXO2 sonde. As you can tell immediately, it's a lot larger than the ProDSS, and that's because it's really made for completely different applications. First of all, it's really made for long-term deployment, to be placed in a stream for up to 90 days, depending on what you're measuring. It has data logging capabilities internally... Get the full story: bit.ly/FlowTracker2 Get the full story: bit.ly/ProDSSvsEXO Excerpts from our most popular posts.