Cruise industry warming up to water quality monitoring system

One of the things you do not expect to find on a Caribbean cruise is a demonstration of a water quality monitoring device. Still, San Diego-based JMAR Technologies (NASDAQ: JMAR), a developer of advanced laser technology, is showing its BioSentry water quality monitoring system at the Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention to be held next week in Miami Beach, Florida. BioSentry is a contamination warning system for waterborne microorganisms. Current water monitoring depends on batch sampling of water and time consuming lab analysis, but BioSentry uses laser-based technology to provide continuous, online, real-time monitoring for harmful bacteria and protozoa. BioSentry is suitable for a number of applications across multiple industries, including municipal drinking water utilities, the beverage industry (for Corona drinkers: A Mexican brewing company is using BioSentry to monitor the quality of water used in the product), and homeland security.

When you are on a cruise you had better constantly monitor the quality of the drinking water in the ship’s storage tanks, as this is the only drinking water source available during a cruise.

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