Every metal in your water announces itself as light
Make better decisions with real-time water data — instead of days-old lab results.
AquaValid ignites a micro-plasma in your flowing sample and reads the emission — up to 5 metals concurrently, chosen from 27 available analytes, at parts-per-billion sensitivity. Results about a minute after sampling, on a continuous ~10-minute cycle.
The lab takes days. The water takes minutes.
Grab samples and off-site labs leave you 24–72 hours behind your own process. AquaValid closes the gap with lab-OES physics living in your line — fully automated, one reagent, self-calibrating.
The challenge
Grab samples and off-site labs mean 24–72 hours of blindness on the variable most likely to cause a regulatory exceedance, a lost batch, or fouled equipment. By the time results arrive, the water — and the moment to act — is gone.
Conventional in-line sensors can't survive high-TDS, harsh-chemistry industrial streams, and single-parameter instruments multiply cost and maintenance.
The solution
AquaValid puts lab-OES physics directly in your process line: solution cathode glow discharge (SCGD) with a single reagent (a plasma conditioner), onboard self-calibration, and a continuous data feed accessible via web portal or HTTP API.
Validated against ICP laboratory analysis — a complementary layer that tells you what's happening now, between the lab samples that build your compliance record.
Meet AquaValid
A ruggedized industrial appliance, not a delicate lab instrument — built to live where your work happens.
Sample to signal in four moves
Flow
The sample stream flows continuously through the analyzer — no bottles, no batch prep, no couriers.
Ignite
A low-power discharge forms a micro-plasma directly at the surface of the flowing sample.
Emit
Metal atoms emit light at wavelengths unique to each element — lithium's signature is not copper's.
Read
An onboard spectrometer reads the emission and streams concentrations to your systems via API.
Four jobs, one analyzer
Environmental Compliance
Catch an effluent excursion before it crosses a regulatory threshold — 24/7 visibility between the lab samples that build your compliance record.
Environmental monitoring →Process Optimization
Instant feedback on metal concentrations to tune reagent dosing and extraction chemistry — real-time data can save around 30% on chemical costs.
Process optimization →Machinery Protection
Track the mineral profiles that cause scaling and fouling before they damage high-value assets or force unscheduled downtime.
Machinery maintenance →AI Datafeed
A clean, high-frequency water-chemistry stream via API — for SCADA dashboards, historians, and the models that run predictive operations.
AI datafeed →“If you wait for the lab, you're already out of compliance before you get their results.”
“The fact that it can handle the high TDS and the harsh conditions we have on-site is what really sets it apart from the other sensors we've looked at.”
“Online measurements are a game changer for this industry, for sure.”
27 analytes. You choose the five that matter.
Monitor up to 5 metals concurrently, selected for your process — with more elements under development.
Latest thinking
When Your Feedwater Changes Faster Than Your Lab Can Tell You
Why continuous metals monitoring at the intake closes the 24–72-hour blind spot between grab samples — before it costs wafers.
Read the article →Tell us about your water
We'll tell you honestly whether AquaValid can see what you need.
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