SYP collects up to 58 precisely timestamped water samples over a 12-month deployment — unattended, in the most demanding environments on earth.
"Sample smarter for richer data."
Cave dripwaters, mountain springs, remote catchments — the most scientifically interesting sites are the hardest to reach. Manual sampling regimes quickly become logistically impossible, or simply too dangerous.
Storm events, seasonal transitions, episodic flow pulses — the moments that answer your research questions rarely happen on a convenient schedule. If you're not there, you lose the sample.
Existing autosamplers were designed for wastewater treatment plants and industrial monitoring — heavy, mains-powered, and oblivious to the realities of field science. SYP was designed from scratch for researchers who go to hard places.
Designed for collecting fluid drips from a height — cave dripwaters, rain gauges, spring seeps. Water flows into the machine by gravity alone; no pump means no mechanical contamination risk and simpler maintenance.
Supports timed, delayed-start, and continuous flow-proportional sampling. Full vial detection ensures consistent sample volume and logs fill time so you can infer flow rate from timestamps.
A peristaltic pump draws water from a reservoir or surface water body into vials at precisely user-defined intervals. Ideal for sites where gravity flow is insufficient — cramped setups, low hydraulic head, or active groundwater monitoring.
The pump runs for a pre-determined duration per sample, with full vial detection to validate volume. Supports timed and delayed start modes.
SYP responds passively to a 12V pulse from an external datalogger or controller — perfect for flow-proportional sampling setups where sampling decisions are made by a third-party sensor network. SYP simply executes the sample on command.
All packages are priced in NZD excl. GST. We recommend the Expedition package for most deployments — it includes everything you need from the car to the field site.
Custom configurations available. Contact us to discuss your deployment requirements.
Tell us about your site and we'll recommend the right configuration and get you a quote within 48 hours.
SYP was developed by researchers who spent years deploying undersupported equipment in caves, springs and wetlands around the world. When the right tool didn't exist, we built it — then refined it through hundreds of real field deployments.
"Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so."
— Galileo Galilei
Analytical environmental chemist and co-developer of the SYP fluid sampler. Committed to building tools that deliver richer data with less work.
Co-developer and frequent field user of the SYP. Passionate about practical solutions for environmental monitoring, drawing on extensive field campaign experience.
Instrumental in commercialising SYP during his time at Waikato Link Ltd, helping bring the instrument from the lab to the global research market.
SYP originated from ideation with Dr Seb Breitenbach (Northumbria University) during project QUEST, whose palaeoclimate expertise was instrumental in shaping the instrument's design.
