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Low impact development

As an engineer in low impact development (LID) and stormwater management, your design doesn’t just manage water, it earns public trust. You're under pressure to validate designs, protect infrastructure, and meet regulatory requirements, all while proving long-term performance. What would your post-construction reports, or regulatory reviews, look like if you could prove your LID systems performed exactly as designed, with site-specific infiltration and stability data to back it up?

Delayed or incomplete data puts your project at risk

When measurement methods are outdated or labor-intensive, it’s harder to defend your design, and easier to fall behind schedule. Without reliable data, you risk:

Incomplete infiltration or runoff validation

Missed compliance benchmarks

More field visits, more rework, and more delay

Delayed or denied project approvals

Your LID infrastructure system design needs to perform in the real world, not just on paper. When compliance depends on data, you need monitoring systems that reduce complexity, not add to it.

METER builds easy-to-use, research-grade instrumentation for engineers who need confidence in their measurements, clarity in their reports, and long-term system performance monitoring. Here’s how we help:

TEROS 12 and TEROS 21 sensors measure soil moisture, EC, and soil suction: ideal for tracking infiltration and saturation dynamics.

SATURO automated infiltrometer delivers repeatable infiltration measurements without manual oversight: perfect for LID validation, soil performance testing, and verifying design assumptions on permeable surfaces.

ATMOS 41 weather station includes 12 sensors that capture site-specific rainfall, wind, and evapotranspiration conditions.

All sensors connect to ZL6 loggers and ZENTRA Cloud, so you can track, visualize, and export your data remotely in real time.

Install quickly. Monitor remotely. Deliver confidently.

Field time is limited, and your design validation shouldn’t be delayed by slow deployment or manual logging. METER offers a simple, scalable plan to help you get monitoring in place and working fast:

Deploy sensors in critical infiltration zones or engineered soils.

Connect to ZL6 and ZENTRA Cloud for hands-free uploads and automatic alerts.

Use real-time data to verify system performance, generate reports, and satisfy regulatory compliance, without repeated field visits.

Data that backs up your design,

without slowing your timeline

You’ve invested in a smart, sustainable design, but if you can’t prove it’s working, confidence in your work fades fast. Without the right measurements in the right places, it’s hard to prove your solution worked, and easy to be blamed when it doesn’t. Without proactive monitoring, you risk:

Approval delays or failed inspections

Overspending on rework or follow-up visits

Reduced confidence from clients or agencies

When the data is high quality and the system just works, your entire process improves. With METER:

You validate LID performance from day one

You capture continuous, high-resolution data with minimal field time

You build trust with reviewers, contractors, and clients

You deliver clear reports with confidence, and fewer assumptions

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"The SATURO is a huge step forward, being able to characterize the entire rain garden in one day with five or six different measurements. It’s a huge improvement....Two people can easily get through those tests in a day, compared to what we were calling the “gold standard” double ring infiltrometer where you can only get through one or two a day."

Dean of School of Engineering Andrea Welker, PhD | The College of New Jersey

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LID solutions

When the data’s unreliable, your whole design is on the line. Validate stormwater and LID designs with reliable, site-specific monitoring tools for soil and atmosphere. Explore METER LID and stormwater solutions.

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Infiltration
Soil moisture
Weather monitoring
Salinity

Infiltration

Understanding how water moves through soil is foundational to effective low impact development. Whether you're focused on pollution control, stormwater management, or regulatory compliance, accurate measurements of Ks and infiltration are essential to getting it right. METER’s automated lab and field instruments deliver consistent, research-grade data—reducing collection time and human error—so you can move from measurement to confident decision faster, with tools built to support both design and defensibility.

Saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ks) and infiltration

Soil moisture

Track what the soil holds—and how it moves. In LID projects, understanding water behavior below the surface is critical to long-term performance. Measuring both volumetric water content (VWC) and soil suction (water potential) gives you the complete picture—not just how much water is present, but how it moves, drains, or lingers in the system. METER delivers short- and long-term monitoring solutions that reveal the direction and force of water flow—so you can evaluate infiltration, model site behavior, and design with confidence that your project performs as intended.

Volumetric water content (VWC)

Soil suction/water potential

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Weather monitoring

Accurate, on-site weather data is essential for evaluating infiltration, runoff, and overall system performance in LID projects. Relying on distant stations means missing the conditions that matter most. METER’s all-in-one, research-grade weather stations give you site-specific atmospheric data—temperature, precipitation, humidity, wind, and more—so you can correlate real-world weather with how your design performs. Simple to deploy. Built to last. Ready when decisions matter.

Air temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, vapor pressure, wind speed, direction, and gust, solar radiation, precipitation, precipitation EC

ATMOS 41W Z
ATMOS 41 Gen 2 Z

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Salinity

Excess salts can compromise vegetation, degrade soil function, and reduce the long-term performance of green infrastructure. That’s why measuring salinity in both soil and water is essential to sustainable LID design. METER provides reliable, research-grade salinity monitoring tools that help you prevent soil degradation, protect aquatic ecosystems, and ensure filtration systems perform as intended—supporting resilient landscapes and defensible design over time.

Water salinity and depth

HYDROS 21 Z

Soil electrical conductivity (EC)

TEROS 12 (VWC, soil temp, and EC) Z

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ZENTRA System

Customize your data collection and logging solution by combining multiple METER sensors with the ZL6 Data Logger and ZENTRA Cloud. ZENTRA stores your data in the cloud, allowing easy access to your data and near-real-time reports from all of your data loggers.

Avoid costly field visits by accessing your data from any web-connected device. Analyze it with ZENTRA Cloud’s built-in visualization tools, and easily share insights without tracking down log files on individual computers.

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LABROS System

Streamline your laboratory analyses and reduce human error using the innovative LABROS soil science laboratory collection. Perform automated particle size analysis, generate soil moisture release curves, or measure thermal and hydraulic conductivity with METER laboratory instruments designed to produce accurate analyses in a fraction of the time of other methods.

Even better, LABROS instruments can be combined to perform all of these analyses from a single sample, saving time and reducing measurement errors due to variations in sample characteristics.

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LABROS-capable laboratory instruments from METER, including WP4C, KSAT, VARIOS, and PARIO