The Niphargus project started around 2013 at the Royal Belgian Institute of natural Sciences, in the Geological Survey of Belgium research unit (www.naturalsciences.be/geology) , with scientists looking for customized instruments to monitor long terms processes in difficult environments (typically underground caves and galleries, water streams and wells).
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The first output of this project was a small low power temperature logger, the original “Niphargus” named after an freshwater amphipod found in many caves around the world (more info on the beast : http://niphargus.info/).
Since then, in collaboration with other research groups, administrations and industrial partners we included environmental monitoring developments in our research strategy, and developed a serie autonomous devices with easy-to-use software. Our stations and loggers are typically installeld in harsh environements, operate on battery with month to years autonomy and with network connectivity (Cellular, LoRa,…) whereas possible.
