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The Eco Web App allows users to configure the Eco ADCP and download data using only a smartphone Eco communicates through Bluetooth technology and requires no cables or connectors
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Nortek ECO Current Profiler sideview
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The Eco Web App allows users to configure the Eco ADCP and download data using only a smartphone Eco communicates through Bluetooth technology and requires no cables or connectors
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Oceanography

Eco

Shallow-water current profiles in a groundbreaking new package. Appropriate for first-time ADCP users, small budgets or educational use.

  • Seamless current profiles from 30cm to 20m from the instrument
  • Automated data processing to ensure quality data reports with no prior ADCP experience
  • Weighs only 1 kg in air and is only 13 cm tall

Overview

The Eco current profiler is the first ADCP right-sized and designed specifically for shallow-water measurements. It allows you to measure water velocities in situ, through the water column using the same acoustic Doppler technology as other Nortek instruments, but in a more affordable and easy-to-use package. Simple buoy and bottom-mount solutions are available and designed to fit Eco off-the-shelf. Eco is portable enough to be put in the water from a paddle board or kayak by one person. While the Eco does not feature many of the more complex capabilities of other Nortek instruments, such as wave measurements, turbulence estimation, or echosounder data, Eco does present a host of new, unique capabilities.

Read more about Eco's capabilities here.

  • Currents

Highlights

  • Self-configuring data collection in various depths and water types
  • Seamless current profiles from 30cm to 20m from the instrument
  • Built-in battery and inductive battery charger. No cables or connectors!
  • Integrated deployment and recovery system available
  • Built-in GNSS, temperature, pressure and tilt sensors
  • Automated data processing to ensure quality data reports with no prior ADCP experience
  • Weighs only 1 kg in air and is only 13 cm tall

Usage

  • Shallow-water estuarine studies
  • Short- and longer-term coral reef studies
  • Coastal engineering projects
  • Educational use with graduate students, undergraduates or young students

Setup

The Eco is configured online via the Eco WebApp through Bluetooth communication. Users need only to input their desired measurement interval (as little as 2min or as much as 1hr) and expected water salinity (fresh, salt, or a mix). Designed specifically for first-time users and students, the WebApp is also used to configure the Eco’s accompanying timed release.

Deployment

Two off-the-shelf deployment solutions are available for the Eco: a tripod for bottom-mounted deployments in shallow water, and a buoy system with a timed release for deployments in slightly deeper water. An LED on the Eco displays the Eco’s status and assures users of function.

Data

After recovery of the Eco, data is loaded back onto the WebApp via Bluetooth. Data processing is done automatically, including data quality controls accounting for sidelobe and fish interference, bin mapping and other common issues. Users are presented with current velocity in three depth layers. Raw data cannot be accessed.

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Maximum profiling range

20 m

Cell size

Self-configured (profiling range 0.3-20 m)

Minimum blanking

0.1 m

Maximum number of cells

3

Accuracy

±1% of measured value ±0.5 cm/s

Velocity resolution

0.1 cm/s

Maximum sampling rate (output)

2, 4, 5, 6, 8 10, 20, 30 or 60 minutes

Velocity range (horizontal)

±5 m/s

Sampling

N/A

Transducer acoustic frequency

1 MHz

Number of beams

3

Beam width

3.4°

Type

N/A

Temperature

Thermistor in head

Temp. range

-4 to +40 °C

Temp. accuracy/resolution

0.1 °C/0.01 °C

Temp. time response

2 min

Compass

Solid-state magnetometer

Accuracy/resolution

3° for tilt < 30°/0.01°

Tilt

Solid-state accelerometer

Accuracy/resolution

0.2° for tilt< 30°/0.01°

Maximum tilt

30°

Up or Down

Up-looking only

Pressure

Piezoresistive

Range

50 m

Accuracy/precision

0.5% FS / 0.005% of full scale

Position

embedded GNSS receiver

Accuracy

3 m

No. of channels

N/A

Capacity

16 GB (>5 yrs back-to-back monthly deployments without formatting)

Accuracy

±2 min/year

I/O

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

User control

Smart device and PC App with secure cloud storage Eco account

Bluetooth and NFC tag module

NINA-B112-02B

Bulkhead

None

Cable

None

Functions

Deployment planning, instrument configuration, data retrieval, secure cloud storage, automatic data processing, automatic report generation, deployment position mapping with embedded GNSS.

DC input

N/A

Battery capacity

70 Wh rechargeable smart Li-ion charged by induction

Operating temperature

-5 to +40 °C

Storage temperature

-20 to +60 °C

Shock and vibration

IEC 60068

EMC approval

EN301489, EN 61326, EN61000

Depth rating (Eco)

50 m

Depth rating (Release)

60 m

Standard model

POM

Maximum diameter

85 mm

Maximum length

130 mm

Weight in air

1.02 kg

Weight in water

0.28 kg

Eco Technical Drawing

Declaration of conformity for Eco and Release

Bluetooth and NFC tag module: NINA-B112-02B

Deployment planning, instrument configuration, data retrieval, secure cloud storage, automatic data processing, automatic report generation, deployment position mapping with embedded GNSS.

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