How to buy
One box, one quote, first year of support included.
We quote per site rather than publishing a price, because the number of gauges and what you already own changes the answer.
Included
What arrives.
The appliance
Built, locked down and set up for your sites before it ships.
A year of support
Security updates, new versions and help from the people who built it.
The paperwork
Everything your network reviewers will ask for, in the box.
The process
Four steps.
A short call
How many gauges, what equipment you already have, and where the data needs to end up. Half an hour.
Quote and paperwork
A firm price, and the review documents at the same time so your reviewers can start before any money moves.
We build it
Your sites loaded, the box locked down, and tested. The test results that ship are for your unit, not a reference one.
Install
Rack it, set the addresses, confirm data is arriving. We stay on the phone until it is.
The honest comparison
Why not build it yourself?
You can, and some agencies do run their own collection server or rely on the cloud alone. What you are buying here is daily operation since 2018, the lock-down, the paperwork, and the two local paths a server in a data center cannot have.
| HydroDCS | Build it yourself | |
|---|---|---|
| Ways data arrives | Three, two of them local | Usually one, over the network |
| Network or cloud goes down | Still collecting at the dam | Collection stops |
| Track record | Corps of Engineers dams since 2018 | Starts from zero |
| Changing configuration | Once, centrally; every unit picks it up | Unit by unit |
| Locking it down | Done, tested, documented | Your team, every time the standard changes |
| Review paperwork | In the box | You write it |
| Who you call | Us, for the whole thing | Your team |
| Getting your data out | Standard formats, export any time | Yours either way |
That last row is deliberate. Your data is yours in either column - we hold it in a standard format you can export at any time. If you outgrow us, you leave with the whole record.
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