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Our challenge towards blue economy

The aims of the company is designing, manufacturing and selling instruments for the measurement and the monitoring of oceans and fresh waters. The top one priority of NKE Instrumentation is to be involved in the understanding of the blue lung of the planet by developing smart high-tech products. The fields of applications are rivers, lakes, estuaries, oceans and deep sea.

There are three distinct ranges of products. Underwater monitoring instruments that are products designed to measure in-situ the main physico-chemical parameters of fresh and sea water. Buoys and instrumented systems aim to measure, transmit and retrieve data in any type of environment. Profiling floats are used for oceanographic and environmental studies of the evolution of oceans and climate. NKE Instrumentation is though involved in the international ARGO program to supply temperature and salinity profiling floats.

NKE Instrumentation is a leading provider of water monitoring solutions thanks to its 30 years of experience in this field. The company aims solving environmental issues and be involved in several research projects in order to find challenging solutions.

MULTIPARAMETER SONDE

Up to 20 water parameters

Digital smart sensor suite

Plug and unplug at will

No dedicated software – web embedded interface

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Do you know the WiSens family?

Temperature, pressure, salinity, velocity, tide, waves, conductivity, depth, turbidity … They are not frightened by anything!

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Discover the new pCO2 sensor!

Compact and robust, the pCO2 sensor can measure pCO2 concentration in seawater. The perfect device to measure Air-Sea CO2 fluxes in ocean.

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Bio profiling floats

This Provor CTS4 float is now capable to be part of various types of missions as it can embed additional sensors to the standard CTD.

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Drifting buoys

This buoy is tailored to measure Sea Surface Temperature, Pressure and High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature!

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Provor NOSS

A PROVOR NOSS Profiling Float is equipped with NOSS sensor to estimate the anomalies of composition of the seawater. This new profiling float could contribute to improve the knowledge of absolute salinity and density of seawater.

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The company

NKE Instrumentation, located in Hennebont, Bretagne (France), gathers a team of experts designing, manufacturing and selling instruments for the measurement and the monitoring of oceans and fresh water. NKE Instrumentation has a team with complementary know-how: a design office composed of technicians and engineers in charge of mechanical and electronical design and hardware integration, a production team dedicated to the assembly and wiring of these devices, a metrology laboratory for calibration, an after sale service and a commercial, logistical and administrative team.

WiSens range

NKE Instrumentation launched a brand new range of sensors: the WiSens range. These new autonomous data loggers are working with Wi-Fi connection and do not need any specific software for the configuration or the recovery of data. You can easily set up the WiSens data loggers with any PC (Mac/Windows), Tablet or Smartphone (iOS/Android). Those loggers are particularly used in studies related to monitor the water quality by measuring temperature, depth, conductivity, turbidity or the measurement of waves and the risk of submersion. Some specific loggers can go down to 6,000m depth or measure corrosion or the ability of oceans to process greenhouse effect.

1st Place - Profiling floats deployed

In 2018, NKE Instrumentation is NUMBER ONE regarding the number of profiling floats deployed. The ARVOR floats are profiling floats for the ARGO international network and a helpful technology to monitor interocean exchanges. Since 2001, NKE Instrumentation assists the ARGO community for developing and maintaining the network in order to contribute answering to new coming scientific, economic and societal issues. The ARVOR floats provide salinity, temperature and pressure profiles and can be fitted with a bidirectional iridium communication.

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ARVOR I Profiling Float

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NKE Arvor I profiling float can now be fitted with an RBRargo3 CTD from RBR Ltd. 🎬 Check out the video made at IFREMER test pool to see how we test our profiling floats!

Training in Woods Hole! 🇺🇸

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✈Last week was an American week for nke! While our sales team was in San Diego, one of our profiling float engineer was in Woods Hole 🇺🇸 Christophe hold a training on the PROVOR CTS5-USEA profiling float at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The aim of this training was to show them all the functionalities and to explain how to use this float that benefits from a new graphical user interface to set mission and acquisition parameters. The PROVOR CTS5-USEA is also fully BGC-Argo compliant as it can embed the 6 core-BGC-Argo variables and extras such as ...