Water Management Sensors

Every tank, every pump, every borehole, on one feed with one alert profile. Continuous level, flow, pressure and pump-runtime data streams from each measurement point to the platform, so a farm manager, a municipal operator or a mine dewatering team opens the dashboard and sees the live state of the whole water layer. Reservoir balance, irrigation throughput, pressure-zone health and pump runtime live on the same map, with alerts profiled against the operating schedule each site actually runs on.

Direct answer

Water management sensors from TG Tracking deliver live tank level, flow, pressure, depth and sewer telemetry across reservoirs, boreholes, storm-water sumps, water meters and treatment infrastructure. Ultrasonic depth probes, pressure transducers, float switches, pulse meters and conductivity probes feed TG Online on the same map view as the rest of the Remote Sensor Monitoring catalogue. For pump runtime and fault telemetry, pair with Equipment Monitoring Sensors.

What a water sensor actually measures

Five signal classes do most of the work.

Tank and reservoir level

An ultrasonic depth probe at the top of the tank reads surface distance and converts to a calibrated litre count against the tank geometry. A pressure transducer at the base does the same job for tall or chemical tanks. Continuous level data shows a slow leak as a downward slope long before a stick-dip would catch it.

Flow and meter pulse

A water-meter pulse is read by the logger and converted to litres per minute, hour and day. Borehole flow, irrigation flow, town-water inflow and treatment throughput all surface as discrete numbers. Reconciliation between metered inflow and outflow closes the leak-detection loop.

Pressure and burst signature

A pressure transducer on a reticulation line reads live operating pressure. A sudden drop with no scheduled valve operation is a burst signature. A continuous low reading on a high-demand morning is a supply-side problem upstream.

Stormwater and sewer level

A depth probe in a stormwater sump or sewer manhole reads rising water against thresholds. Overflow alerts fire before the surface flood event. Blockage alerts fire when flow stagnates against expected discharge.

Pump runtime and dry-run

A current sensor on the pump motor reads on-state, runtime and dry-run conditions. Combined with the supply-tank level, the platform protects the pump from the most common borehole failure mode: running dry because the level dropped below the inlet.

Leak detection on a continuous graph

Leak detection is mostly pattern reading. A municipal pressure zone with a slow leak shows a creeping drop in night-time pressure. An agricultural reservoir with a leaking liner drops faster overnight than evaporation can account for. A reticulation network with an under-the-paving burst shows continuous flow that should have been zero between 23:00 and 04:00. The platform names those signatures: minimum-night-flow breach, abnormal-overnight-drop, continuous-flow during a no-demand window. The investigation that used to start with a customer complaint now starts with a system alert.

Water security as a national pressure

Water sensors matter more in South Africa than in most markets, and the pressure is structural. Drought has reset reservoir baselines across the Western Cape, the Eastern Cape and the Karoo. Day-zero scenarios put a price on every litre lost to a leak. Municipal infrastructure backlogs have shifted treatment, reticulation and pressure management onto telemetry that survives load shedding and patchy coverage. Agricultural users carry an unusual share of national water risk because they irrigate from boreholes, on-farm reservoirs and licensed allocations that all need balancing, with Farming carrying the storage-and-cold-chain side of the same operation. Mining operators run dewatering, process water and tailings monitoring under the Mining IVMS compliance frame, with industry-specific configurations under Industries we serve. For irrigation pumps and bowsers that move water across the operation, pair this layer with Wireless asset tracking.

Frequently asked questions

Bring water visibility into one feed

The platform turns tanks, boreholes, pressure zones and meter pulses into one continuous record that the operator, the engineer and the auditor share. The morning opens with the picture in hand.