Spyglass

Spyglass offers a revolutionary water monitoring solution to better manage the health of our water systems.  Contaminated water is a growing threat.  Current testing methods are unable to keep pace with the increasing human impact on water resources.  Spyglass provides a more complete picture of water quality by taking proven laboratory methods to the field in an automated system.  With the patented technology available from Spyglass, environmental managers can monitor changes in water quality in real time and over time, enabling them to identify patterns and develop powerful early warning systems.

Chris Melançon, Founder & CEO

Prior to founding Spyglass in 2007, Chris led a $50M business aimed at distributed testing of pathogens using genetic technology. He couples that experience with his successes in managing an enterprise software suite from inception to acquisition by Siebel Systems in 2000. Through Spyglass, Chris is leading the merging of the life sciences and information technology for water quality management.  As Spyglass CEO, Chris is focused on ensuring Spyglass serves the early adopters of the company’s flagship product, the Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) system, acquires the necessary strategic partnerships for sustainable and scalable operations and makes rapid progress towards establishing a broad installed base of Spyglass systems for monitoring water quality around the globe.

The Spyglass Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) System:

Eliminates the need to bring samples to a lab.

The Spyglass system provides the first and only automated way to perform advanced water quality tests outside of a lab.

Helps our customers take a deeper look. The Spyglass system enables “high fidelity” biological tests that use DNA analysis to precisely identify the microscopic organisms present in a water sample and the chemical parameters in which the microbes are living.

Shows our customers a bigger picture of the environment.
Because the Spyglass system conducts tests directly in the body of water and not in the lab, managers can simultaneously measure a range of conditions, helping them discover connections between physical, chemical and biological changes in the water.

Contaminated water is a growing threat

As urban populations expand on the world’s coastlines our oceans are becoming more polluted. Contaminated water sickens people and animals, makes recreational waterways unusable, and threatens fishing areas and aquaculture farms. 

Testing methods are inadequate
Current water monitoring solutions deliver only a snapshot of the total information available. They require samples to be collected and transported to a lab for testing, which limits the number and frequency of samples and may degrade the quality of the results.

Spyglass ESP provides a more complete picture
Never before have managers been able to monitor changes in the microbiology of a body of water in real time and over time, enabling them to identify patterns and develop powerful early warning systems.