 Good afternoon guys so I'll just leave it a minute or two just for the stragglers to come in and I'll get started in about one to two minutes. We'll make a start. Happy Friday to you all and thank you once again for taking the time to join us on another installment of the Hydra Terra webinar series, which we've been running now for a few months. Today we'll be taking you through the new level logger series, level of a five, which is now superseded the level logger edge, which you all may be accustomed to. So for today we have Michelle Canton, our general manager who oversees the presentation and just make sure everything runs smoothly. And once again myself, I'm McLaren sales manager here at Hydra Terra. So for those of you who are joining us for the first time, we do run a bit of a Q&A session at the end where I'll read all your questions and try to answer as best as I can then and there. So please feel free to write any questions you may have as I move my way through the presentation. There is a lot to cover today and I'll be doing sort of some overviews as best as I can of the features for the level logger five series. So I'll try and leave as much time as I can at the end for all your questions, but rest assured if I don't get to all of them, I'll be sure to contact you independently. But yeah, as I said, I'll allow as much time as I can at the end. We'll also be recording this session for you guys to have access to the slides and presentation after the fact if you wanted to show any of your team that couldn't be in attendance today. So as always with these webinar series, we look to host these to be able to generate awareness. We like to share our knowledge as much as we can of our knowledge for the technologies and equipment that we represent here at Hydra Terra. There's also looking at the latest sort of methodologies facilitate the education as well through training. We see these webinars as a really great avenue to do this and also understanding the industry needs for you guys. So what you need and some of your applications that you're using the technologies for we're also happy to get a good understanding of that as well. So for the webinar program today, basically I'll just be running through, as I said, sort of an overview of the new features that have come with the level log of five. So the differences between the Edge series and just to look at the adapters as well, which so we sort of recognize that obviously the level of edges have been around for a long period of time. So you guys will have, you know, quite a few bits of hardware out there that are that are edge compatible. So it's also recognized this and has made it so with the addition of an adapter or two. You can you can use your old existing level loggers and also the new level log of five edges with your old Edge hardware such as your optical readers that sort of thing. And as I said, the Q&A will be at the end as well. So many of you probably are aware by now, but just a very quick overview of who Solence is. So Canadian based company been around for 40 years developing water level and quality monitoring technology. We've been representing them here in Hydra at Hydra Terra exclusively for well over 15 years now. So I have talked about in the past previously, some other products that have been offered, which is in the few older webinar series and there's still a lot more to talk about which will be in future ones as well. But for today, we're going to be talking about the new level log series the five. So essentially what's been transferred over from the Edge series is pretty much a representation into the into the Solence level log five series. So we still have the level loggers, the barrel loggers, the LTCs, the juniors, and also your vented loggers, your level vents and aqua vents and your rainlogger as well. So that whole series from the previous Edge has been transferred across with some updated features and put into this new series of level log of five. As you may be aware, there's been quite a long evolution of these level loggers and we've moved through quite a few iterations. Some of you may even have some of the ones before the Edge is the level of golds that are still floating around. So just a good thing, I guess, to indicate just the robustness of the product that we're still seeing level of the golds in and in the field still being used well over 14 years later. So there has been quite a few evolutions as we've moved along. So we'll get into it now with the level log of five. I wanted to talk a bit about the important specifications of the level loggers. Some of you may be aware of the Edge specifications and a lot of the specs have been transferred over from the Edge to the level log of five. In particular, we still have the accuracy there of plus or minus 0.05% full scale as well as the resolution. Important to note too, our battery life is still being transferred over. We still see 10 plus years based on one minute logging. And also with the with the storage component that is a new feature which has been upgraded, which you'll see there. Previously it was 40,000 readings, the 40,000 readings with the Edge, so it's now increased that almost four times to 150,000 data sets. So if you were having a logging frequency of every minute, you'd sort of get previously with 40,000 roughly 27 to 30 days nonstop data. Whereas now you're sort of in that 100 day range if you were logging constantly every minute. So quite a big jump in storage there for the level of five. Why is that important? Well, we've recognized that having a larger storage will really help with things like pumping tests and that sort of things. When you're wanting to get that really high frequency of logging. So yeah, the important that science has recognized that and increased the memory capacity. We still see the sampling options that have been in with the Edge as well. So our linear, which is our sort of standard sampling. We have event based. So you can input in the software a certain range at which you want to have the level logger beginning to log. Once it reaches a certain sort of height above the sensor. You can increase the logging frequency in that event based system. Future start and stop, which is also nifty. You can obviously program it to start a week from when you deploy and do the same with the stop and also the real time view. So you get a graph representation of your data as you're coming through again, really handy when people are wanting to utilize those level loggers with pumping tests, that sort of thing. The units of measure is also being transferred over. So a lot of still a lot of flexibility there with what you want to have your level readings represented as the warranty is still in place. So three years warranty and we've also kept the ranges as well. So m5 all the way to m200 and that's in the level of five. So some of the new features that have been implemented at the level of five. I did talk briefly about the increased memory capacity. So as I said, you almost have, you know, four times the level logger edge sets of data. We have a fast and more reliable communication. So this next image I'm going to show you after this slide is probably the main change in the level of five series. Which now that it has a singular large optical eye, which is now made it sort of easier to clean and faster comms speeds and new connection cables. So that is probably the biggest change as well as increased corrosion resistance. So I want to double up on all rings within the level logger just to try and keep that water ingression to absolute. And the new coating that is on there is a baked on PTFE PFAS free. And the coating is also previously was just on the outside of the logger. Now it's also on the inside of the logger. So what we've seen in the past is that you'll get some potential water accumulation somewhere and it will result in pitting through the outside layer. Now, so let's recognize that and I've also put on the inside layer. So just an extra barrier to try and keep any and all water outside of those components on the inside there. The new software version as well. So 4.5 has come out to be shown with the level of five. And it is important to know that the version 4.5 is completely backwards compatible with all your older level logger versions. So it's a free download on the Solance website for those who don't know. It's simply a register of your email and a password and that gives you access to download that software version now. So I would encourage you all sort of moving forward that you get that new version. They've made some good improvements and some streamlined improvements on that software version. In particular, the battery level in the software version is now a lot more reliable. Previously it was sort of an indicator but it could vary a lot on your little battery meter in there. Now that actual meter is a lot more reliable. We used to have to rely purely on voltages and milliamps, that sort of thing. But now that is a lot more reliable to check your battery voltages. You also have a lot more self diagnosis tests and that sort of thing. So it's a lot more streamlined. So as I talked about, this is probably the major difference with the level logger fives. So you can see there previously with the edge units, we just had two small eyes and a little pin. That would be able to connect. Some problems that we used to have with that were that the two small eyes were recessed into the logger. And that would sometimes get a lot of dust buildup and that sort of thing, which can lead to communication problems with this. So they've done away with that sort of plate and just left it with one large eye. So it's very easy to clean, it's slightly recessed so you won't need to worry about sort of scratching when you're putting the cap on that sort of thing. Very durable glass on the top there as well. And that's just going to allow for easier cleaning and a lot easier connection and a lot more room to be able to communicate, which has been a problem in the past. So with the change in that optical connection, obviously comes with the new desktop readers and field readers, which I'll talk about a bit later on. So just moving our way through the series. There's also the level logger five junior that has been a few slight updates with this logger as well. Important to note, too, that I didn't mention, but the new coding that science is implemented is on all the loggers, except for this junior logger. So it's still continuing with that previous casing that it had in there. So the new PTFE PFAS coding isn't on the level log five junior. It's still 316. Some features of the junior there. You do get obviously the costings of these juniors are a little bit less than the level logger five three thousand and once. So your accuracy changes a little bit there. So we go from 0.05% to 0.1. The battery life is about hard. So five years based on a minute logging. Seriously, the storage component storage capability on the level of five was 40,000 they have jumped that up a little bit to 75. The sampling options as well is, you know, your linear your future starts up in real time. There is an event based sampling in the junior loggers. So that's just a difference there. Same units of measure. That the warranty is is one year rather than three. So you do get the job done with these juniors and they are a little bit more cost competitive. But obviously, as you move up to those level logger fives, you'll see an increase in battery life storage extended warranty. And also an important note is the ranges on the juniors. So we only see ranges in the five and 10 meter submergence ratings there for the juniors. I will talk about the barrel of five as well. But just for those who don't know is a nice little sort of cross section of a typical setup for for the level loggers for those of you that aren't aware. This is just as a pretty standard setup here of how the loggers should look like. In this in this, you know, cross section, we do see that these are connected with silenced direct read cables. They just allow us to be able to connect these loggers, leave them down whole and read the data from them at the surface. So the barrel loggers, obviously, these are absolute versus senses. So we do need to have a barometric compensation with them, hence where the barrel log comes in. So with this cross section, you see a typical setup is having a short, a short direct read cable, leaving the barrel logger in air and having the level logger on a longer direct read cable as long as you like positioned down in the well. So that will allow us to come along and connect a PC interface cable. The top of this cap can be removed and you'll see the exposed direct read cable heads with some black caps that are also removed. And yet that allows us to connect there. So with the barrel logger five, the same sort of features have come across again from the edge. We still see the accuracy. We still see the different the changes in measurement. If you like PSI, KPA or EMBA. Important one is also I get asked a lot about how many barrel loggers do I need for my for my project. And a good rule of thumb there is just to have one per 30 kilometer radius. You can compensate your whole suite of loggers with just your one barrel logger there within the 30 K radius, but also and also a 300 meter plus or minus in elevation as well. There's also something to consider. So if you have a site that's, you know, the topography is up and down. You might want to check that as well to see if you need to have other additional barrel loggers in that elevation change. And also, you know, it's it's programmed so the pressure algorithm in this barrel log is based on air obviously not in water. So we do get great accuracy for there when we're doing our compensations across. So for the level of five LTC. We see this is also LTC level temp and conductivity. So we have AC range in here as well with these level loggers. We see a lot of the specifications have come through and transferred over from the edge as well. So still the same accuracy battery life. AC range and the storage has again increased a bit to a hundred thousand datasets. Some other features as well. You do have that obviously that new coding. They've upgraded the sense of pins in the LTC just have a bit more accuracy there. We see the three year warranty and of course all the ranges that we agree to know. So I'll just talk also about the level vent and actual vent just quickly. So the level vent obviously so on equivalent for a vented pressure. So level vent series as a difference between the older level vents and the newer as you can see that that is now that used to be silver in the edge. They've now moved that to that to that black new coding just for extra bit of corrosion resistance there. And as I said, silence equivalent to the level vent five. So the level vent edge has come over to the five. So we see that that storage again has come up sampling options are still the same. The three year warranty and it's just important to note the ranges. So we only go up to a 20 meters submergence rating with a little vent fives. So in here is your this is what essentially the top of a direct radio cable will normally look like. I'm previously the only vented option that that silence had a while back was the aqua vent. But since then they streamlined to have just this this nice neat head that can go into the top of a science World Cup. The actual air inlet is here. Important to know that there is, you know, hydrophobic filters in at either end of the of the vented cable to completely throw away the use of desiccants for level vent. So there is no desiccants required for these units, which is great. And the communication typically for level vent five is again that PC interface cable. So these cables can be as long as you like really just as long as we stick to these ranges of submergence. As I said, the the 510 or 20. So the aqua vent five that's come in is a transition over from the old aqua vent series. It does have batteries in the top. They are double a four double a batteries in the top there. These units are vented level, but allow you to have ingestion for external telemetry. So both ports here. One is a Modbus and the other one is an STI 12 output. So these units allow you to integrate into a third party telemetry system. All that sort of thing was keeping event level. So that's what that's what the aqua vents need. She is for that with the rain logger also the features haven't really changed too much across from the edge. Aside from obviously that optical eye at the top there. So the rain logger we still see it just gives you a timestamp of tips from a rain bucket rain bucket can be anything that you like. And that rain log can just be programmed through the general silenced software. And again, yeah, we'll record a timestamp of each of the tips. So there hasn't been a lot of change with both the level of five app interface and the data grab a five. Really the only change is an update in the firmware on your device, whatever device you may have. Previously it was with just Android as well and iOS was still in beta format. Now iOS and Android and now fully compatible. So the same features are on here for the app interface and it's been transferred across from the edge. So we still see that program there where you have basically I sort of say, you know, 80% of the 80% of the PC software capabilities. So you keep, you know, within that software for those who aren't aware, this is a Bluetooth interface where you screw on to the top of a direct read cable. And within five meters you can connect to the app on your phone and program view the data logger program start stop. You might want to just download and send data off in an email format back to your base. So it's a nice little product to come along. They're not along with the app interface and the data grab a they're not designed to just be left out in the field and sit on top of the well. You sort of have to come along to each and every direct read cable and screw on and take your data and move on to the next. So as I said, there hasn't really been a lot of change just a firmware upgrade in your software on your tablet or phone. So just be aware of that if you're having connection problems. If you get an app interface, we still have the old firmware on your device. The data grabber just quickly is something that is probably a dump down version of the app interface, I'd say it's really just allows you to connect any USB doesn't have to be the advanced equivalent you do get a silence USB with the data grabber, but you can connect any that you like. And a single light at the top here will give you a flash indication of it downloading the data into the USB with a push of a button. So just a little bit simpler of a device there. So we come to the component where we look at communications with the new level of the fives. So with the addition, I suppose of that singular optical eye, we've moved to what's now called the desktop reader. This is essentially replacing the optical reader. That's the science equivalent of the optical reader. So now these this new one will be able to to read the level of fives directly without having to use any, any adapters or that sort of thing. Same same features as you would have seen previously in the optical readers. They have added a new field reader. So this is almost like a slip fit optical reader if you will. So you literally remove your end cap from the level logger plug and click. You will hear a click when the level logger goes in. And that's essentially a nice neat sort of streamlined version if you're out in the field rather than having to make sure that the desktop reader is sitting nice and level and then the level logger is tipped over. And that sort of thing just takes just makes it a bit more easier and streamlined when you're out in the field there. So that's that's a neat little connection that's that's come in from science. Probably the most important for today that I'll that I'll talk is that as I said at the very beginning. We recognize insolence is obviously recognized that the edges been around for quite a long time you guys might have had won't have quite a bit of hardware out there. So they've introduced to two adapters to get around this basically so the first adapter we have. Is the edge to L5 DRC adapter. So basically this allows you to read your older level logger edge units with the newer communications. If you require so if you have a new L5 direct read cable which obviously has communication into the level logger five to be able to read that singular optical life. Whatever reason you might find some old edge units lying around or whatever you can have an adapter to be able to read your again your older edge units in with the newer level logger five communications there. So but not as important I suppose and not as common but probably the most common is this adapter which is the L5 to edge. So this one allows you to use your new level logger five units with any of your older hardware that you might have so already I've seen a lot of clients wanting a couple new level logger fives without having to. You know by the hardware or anything again with the simple you know use of this adapter. You can connect your new level logger five units into your optical readers into your direct read cables if you had that sort of thing so that is just something to remember and a good way to remember is if you just look at these two figures here to know which adapter you need. So edge to L5 means that we can take our edge unit put it into L5 comes L5 to edge means we can take our L5 units and put it into edge comes so that's just the two adapters that have been put in there for you. So that was pretty much the overview that we have of these new features for the level logger five series. What I'll talk about in another series. There's just too much to talk about but I'll also run through another level logger webinar talking through the application and installation and setup of these loggers through the software and some of the install methods that you can use to set up these as well. So that's if I was to talk that on today, you know we'll be here for another hour or so so watch this space for that one. And there will also be a look at the silence telemetry components as well which will which will also run so maybe that'll be its separate webinar or maybe that'll be tacked on to the software run through. And that sort of thing but at this point I will look to see any questions that you guys might have. So feel free to to write in and we'll answer a couple. So Matt's written is it still possible to retrieve data from the level logger five if we can't get data via the computer connection. So yeah okay I think what you're talking about there Matt is if for whatever reason you can't get communications from your level loggers. It's important to know that if you can't get comms and you've tried every which way you know you've blew on the connection a couple of times turn it off and on. You for whatever reason you can't get a communication that's not necessarily meaning that the data has disappeared. We will have the capability to be able to get the data off off these level logger fives we can definitely attempt to do that previously. Addition for the level of five as opposed to the edges that we used to have to do that with the edge at the detriment of the unit. So we did have to open that up and peel that back to get into the motherboard to get your data. Whereas a level of five now there is capability to open up that logo without at the detriment of the unit so we can attempt to do that for you. So if you have any old logger sitting out there in an amongst your fleet, I don't think that they're dead and buried. Please be sure to give us a give us a call or contact us and we'll see what we can do to help out there. That's also said you still supporting the level edge in servicing and calibration. Yes we are yet we still supporting the level edge for sure. As I said there's a lot of different a lot of hardware out there that's still with the edge from our clients and you know most of it will be. I mean this has only been implemented since September. So we recognize that probably the majority of the hardware out there is still the level edge. So we absolutely still service still service the level edge units. Definitely. And the silence is also well aware of warranty periods and that sort of thing as well. So it's not as if this if they're lost just because they've been superseded. Again, please still feel free to contact us for any other any other questions or looking at your old units. So I'll just leave it a bit to see if there's any other questions coming through. But I guess some of the things I've been asked in the past is how do I select basically my submergence ratings. You might have seen before when I talked about the ranges on the on the loggers. It's important to know that there is no real price. There is no price difference between between the submergence ratings. So an m5 logger will cost exactly the same as an m200 logger. So it's not so much about that. It's more so what people will often try to do is they'll look at their screen intervals on their boards and they'll say okay. Well, my screen is at 50 meters. So I need an m100 because the next lowest is an m30. Not necessarily what your main concern would be would also be to look at your variation in your level in your bore. You can put your logger. For example, I can put an m10 logger eight meters below the surface knowing that my variation in my water level might only be a couple of meters. And if I've got my bore log and I've got my total depth of my bores and that sort of thing, I can still calculate what the standing water level is going to be. I don't have to sit that logger all the way down to the bottom of the bore, which is just something to keep in mind as well when you're stuck. There is a little bit more calculation involved, sure. But it's just something that's a very common thing that people need to, you know, select an m200 or an m100 all the time. Sometimes sure you might be worried a bit more about temperature. So you want to sit that logger in the screen. I get that. But that was just another thing to consider. And of course, if you were to go to the LTC, that obviously has conductivity. So that's when you would be looking to match up as best as you can your pressure range with your screen interval because we want to capture that electrical conductivity as best as we can from the screen. If you ever over pressurize your loggers, don't be alarmed. You do see so that they are rated to double their submergence rating as well. So don't be scared if if it's gone over a couple of meters or that sort of thing that they should be fine. So that's just something to to consider as well. Paul McGrath has just had a question. When connected to telemetry for daily data collection, does that heavily affect the battery life of the logger? Well, Paul, it can, yes, it can affect the battery life, obviously. When you're connecting the silence loggers to telemetry, you have two options, basically. You can have an STI 12 output for the logger, sure. And it can be it can't, you know, it won't be too affected by sending that that power draw down to get the data off it. It's only when you want to have that redundancy in the logger because you can set up your logger independently from your telemetry to also have the data being stored internally within the logger as well as sending that data up through the telemetry. So when you want to have that redundancy and have effectively two sets of data as a bit of a fallback. Yes, of course, you will get some battery life drainage there a bit quicker. But again, it's depending on it's depending on how often you want to how often you want to log. And that's something that we can work out together if you need if need be on your optimal logging frequency and how often you also want to uptake the data back from your particular telemetry device. We can sort of get an idea on on, you know, we've done plenty of previous projects where we've integrated the silence log is into third page telemetry as well as silence telemetry as well. So we have a pretty good idea on how much battery life you're going to get out of it based on your optimal logging frequencies. Matt's also said a little over five is more expensive than the edge. No, that's an important one. Thanks Matt. There is no real price difference between the new series compared to the edges. So you'll see pretty much the same pricing that you might have that you might have seen previously with the edges into the level of five series. So that is an important one. There hasn't been a massive jump in pricing at all because it's a new series and because of the new features, they've they've kept the same pricing. So that's that's good. Thanks Matt for that reminder. So if there's no more questions there, I'll probably leave it at that. So thank you all for joining us. Do we have any or Matt said you have any in stock. Yes, we do. We we do have them in stock. We've we've got all of the level of five series back in stock now. So there was a bit of a delay there from silence. But now we're up and running again. So the previous stock that we used to keep with the edge has just been rolled over to the level of five. So, you know, plenty of m10s, plenty of m30s, a lot of optical. Sorry, a lot of desktop readers will get used to saying that now. But yes, we will have them in stock now. So thank you all for joining us here today. I really appreciate your time and happy Friday to you all. Once again, please be on the lookout for some more webinar series from us. But once again, thank you very much and hopefully talk to you soon. Cheers.