Discover new depths of environmental data management
Welcome to WISKI. The Water Information System from KISTERS.
Introducing WISKI
Our all-in-one software solution and premier platform makes it easy to collect, analyze and share critical environmental data. Help your team make the decisions that will shape tomorrow.
Whether you manage hydrometric networks, monitor water quality, forecast weather events, assess biodiversity, or operate renewable energy systems, WISKI transforms diverse, disorganized data into unified insights, expediting answers to pressing questions.
Why choose WISKI?
- Secure, unlimited storage
- Integrate many datasets and formats
- Streamline data workflow
- Automate processing & reporting
- Data-editing and visualization options
- Analytics, reporting and alerts
- Extensive customization and add-ons
- Flexible integration & scalability
- Full team collaboration
WISKI helps with ...
- Hydrological measurements
- Groundwater analysis
- Biodiversity sampling
- Meteorological measurement
- Flooding and disaster management
- Fire weather
- Pest management
Configured to your needs
Our full range of WISKI extensions offer specific solutions to meet your needs and preferences. Arrange a consultation and we’ll identify a tailored solution for your organization.
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WISKI extensions
Increase data confidence
with WISKI Validation
Increase data confidence
Automate the verification, validation, and correction time-series data with WISKI Validation.
Then prepare scheduled or ad hoc reports from one single source of truth supports decisions and actions.
Why choose WISKI Validation?
Data validation
An intuitive web interface lets users easily check and standardize data.
Change reports
Audit any and all edits to wide variety of measurements & parameters over long periods of time.
Custom rules
Select algorithms from a default library, or use python to write more complex, customized scripts.
Automation
Warning messages and custom validation rules mean less input errors and more accurate data.
Data visualization
Easily view, compare and confirm observations and trends. Color-coding prioritizes tasks that need attention.
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Book your demoDigitize paper field notes
with FieldVisits
Digitize paper field notes
Data QA/QC begins in the field with digital field notes. Leave behind time-consuming, error-prone manual processes.
With KISTERS FieldVisits, field staff can accurately capture all site-relevant data, even in remote areas without Wi-Fi.
The mobile app can display previous observations, notes and manuals, confirming that new measurements are reasonable.
Why choose WISKI FieldVisits?
Streamline processes
The user-friendly app easily records & standardizes data, replacing notebooks and field sheets. No need to transpose.
Increase data accuracy
Warning messages and custom data validation rules result in fewer errors and more accurate data.
Enhance monitoring records
Capture photos and videos. Add comments. Enrich observations with detail and site-specific insights.
Provide in-field guidance
Easily view & compare historical trends, confirm new observations, or access manuals to resolve problems in the field.
Broadly applicable
Use FieldVisits to measure a wide variety of parameters, continuous or point in time.
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Book your demoHarmonize continuous & discrete data
with KiWQM & KiECO
Harmonize continuous & discrete data
In nature, interactions abound. Rain impacts water quality, and runoff affects soil health.
Apply WISKI’s advanced automation, quality control and data visualization to discrete monitoring data.
The KiWQM water quality module and KiECO ecological data module help understand environmental flow.
Study the impacts of wildlfire on water quality. Identify flow regimes that protect ecological integrity. What complex relationships do you analyze?
Why choose WISKI KiWQM and KiECO?
Watershed analysis
Develop a holistic understanding of your watershed with a consolidated environmental data management system.
QA/QC automation
Automate data validation with plausibility checks, quality codes, legal threshold definitions. Verify lab EDDs against orders, and more.
User-defined flexibility
Approved-users can proactively update and trace methodologies, properties and codes without waiting for administrator permissions.
QAPP compliance
Site visit scheduling tools, extensive metadata storage and internal links help meet Quality Assurance Project Plan compliance.
Customized solutions
Customize KiWQM & KiECO features to your preferences. Standardize report template formatting. Calculate specific biotic indices.
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Book your demoPerform hydrologic operations
with BIBER & SKED
Perform hydrologic operations
We are an IT company, but hydrology expertise and hydrologic applications have set us apart from the beginning.
Embedded in WISKI are the BIBER discharge measurement module and the SKED rating curve editor.
Compatible with all conventional Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) and streamflow measuring devices from major suppliers, these modules support automated calculations and stage-discharge rating curve management.
Generate solutions and workflows for natural flow and standard cross-sections, shift curves, and 3-point stage shifts which comply with USGS methods.
Why choose WISKI?
Data accuracy
Verify data using confidence intervals & statistical plausibility checks. Blend intervals for rating curve segments, or exclude measurements from regressions.
Extensive flexibility
Define cross-sections. Edit every recorded measurements if desired. Convert simple or complex regressions into standard cross-sections.
Data visualization
Easily view the most complex cross-sections. Combine wet & dry profiles into a single composite. Readily see dates of validity and comments. Preloaded functions support advanced fit analysis. Click & drag points, or use windows to enter precise values.
Advanced rating curve features
Create stage-discharge curves using hysteresis or other complex methods. Construct elevation-storage curves for lakes/reservoirs. Supplement sparse measurement data with constructed/estimated points.
Track & calibrate sensors
Track sensors, current meters, impulse converters, and calibration equations. Configure and manage sensors from any manufacturer.
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Book your demoEvolve with advanced analytics
with KISTERS Analytics
Evolve with advanced analytics
With KISTERS Analytics, go beyond existing WISKI functionalities to seamlessly control custom data processes and model integrations.
Visualize the connections between datasets and processes with this web interface.
Build your own catalog of data analytics, algorithms and modelling processes.
Why choose KISTERS Analytics?
An all-in-one solution
Centralize data management with a robust core framework, automation controls, and flexible connections to open-source programming. Customize workflows with seamless integration of virtually any algorithm or application, including other KISTERS applications such as real-time optimization and data validation.
Advanced data processing tools
Easily link data to algorithms and models of your choice. Then analyze and modify as needed. Incorporate, reuse and reconfigure algorithms, configurations and more settings.
Process & systems analytics dashboards
Web dashboards enable the systems administrators to monitor processes and system performance. Filter data on-the-fly to quickly resolve technical issues.
Unlock endless development options
Implement a comprehensive solution beyond a one-time algorithm development and integration. This tool was developed with deep industry expertise for use by the experts. Bring your own methodologies and models, approve access by consultant partners, or contract with KISTERS to design a program that meets your needs.
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Book a demoIntegrate with GIS systems
with WISKI arc extensions or APIs
Integrate with GIS systems
Integrate geo-referenced data with time series data to better visualize, analyze and understand trends.
Explore problems and progress at a particular site, group of sites, basin or broader area.
The combination of esri arcGIS and KISTERS technologies empowers users to optimize value from their data.
Why choose WISKI arc extensions?
Support spatial analysis
WISKI Arc extensions, or WISKI APIs for other GIS platforms, provide easy access to information in WISKI. Analysts can readily query, inspect and share insights using extensive GIS functions.
Map data without coordinates
Digitize & adapt monitoring site coordinates based on available background maps even if measured coordinate information is unavailable.
Enhance reporting & publications
Create static or animated maps for reports, websites and presentations. Also configure ArcGIS Dashboards to convey information in a single screen.
Expand data visualization options
ArcGIS Javascript API powers high-quality mapping within the WISKI Web interface, engaging web visitors with time-aware data.
Safely share data online
with WISKI Web
Safely share data online
Responsive, intuitive, and customized web portals allow you to effortlessly publish approved environmental data online.
Options to access, filter, visualize and download critical information empower your team to make decisions that drive meaningful change.
Why choose WISKI Web?
Responsive design
The web portal adapts to the wide array of devices and screen sizes used by your website visitors.
Easy navigation
Make your data discoverable and engaging. Visitors will be familiar with dropdown menus, sliders, and dynamic maps to find information meaningful to them.
Flexible APIs & web services
Choose from one-way open data publishing, two-way read/write data service, and real-time data verification. Eliminate time-consuming data requests with scheduled or real-time publishing of frequently asked information.
Open data standards compliance
Our web services support many file formats and industry-approved open data standards. Reallocate time spent converting data.
Tailored solution
Configuration options abound for the appearance as well as the integration with other IT or operational systems.
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Learn more about WISKI
WISKI Success Stories
FAQs
How does WISKI work?
WISKI is an all-in-one water, weather and environmental data management system that allows you to efficiently monitor networks, parameters and time-series data. It imports, archives, validates and analyzes data. In addition, it prepares clear, sharable reports, tables, graphs and observations. Get comprehensive insight into your monitoring data like never before.
Whom is WISKI for?
WISKI is designed to simplify data monitoring across a huge range of fields: hydrology (surface and groundwater), meteorology, flood forecasting, water quality, stormwater management and water pollution control, urban water systems, reservoir operations and hydropower generation.
Our global customer base ranges from federal and state / provincial environmental agencies to local municipalities and watershed districts, from metropolitan utilities to small engineering firms, mining companies – and more are joining us every year.
How does WISKI improve support decisions?
Imagine if you can transform vast amounts of diverse, disorganized datasets into information your entire team can access, analyze, and understand. That’s the power of WISKI. You can trust your data and have confidence to take effective, decisive action – from the field to the boardroom, and into the community.
How can WISKI meet my needs?
From single users to large enterprises, WISKI flexibly scales to data and tools are available and appropriate to each user, including user interface and language requirements. Deploy the system on-premise servers, in the cloud, or hybrid environments. Use WISKI or extend its functionality with modules. In fact, options to customize WISKI are endless. It’s designed to grow with as the needs of your organization change.
How can WISKI save me time?
WISKI reduces your manual workload. Custom automation options streamline many data processing tasks. So you can focus on more critical tasks, and address alerts when they arise. With secure, unlimited storage capacity, you can quickly access multidisciplinary data, dive into understanding it, and share findings with collaborators, decision-makers or the public.