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Large-scale operators across the pool and spa sector face numerous challenges when managing water testing operations.

Rigorous and consistent testing regimes must be followed across multiple sites to protect pool and spa users and infrastructure, and maintain water quality. This includes monitoring pH levels and disinfectant residuals such as chlorine, testing for alkalinity, total dissolved solids, calcium hardness and water balance, and eliminating the risk of recreational water illnesses through microbiological testing.

Pool and spa operators also need to ensure they comply with regulations and can demonstrate this internally and externally.

In addition, in order to identify potential problems within a chain of leisure facilities – for instance major differences in water quality across a group, or increases in contamination in particular sites following a change in maintenance regime – testing data needs to be easy to analyse and interrogate.

Operators need to have confidence in the accuracy of their data, and they need quick access to it, in order to be able to make informed decisions on the safety of their swimming pools and spas.

However, maintaining paper logs and manually collating results can be time consuming. Plus, there is a risk that human error can lead to inaccuracies in the data. Manual reporting and data management can also divert skilled staff away from their core roles.

So how can these challenges be overcome?

Palintest provides a solution which integrates instruments, software and technical support that can help large-scale pool and spa operators to address many of the challenges they face in water testing and managing testing data.

Palintest’s Lumiso Pooltest Expert – a multi-parameter benchtop photometer with 35 tests available – has been developed specifically for the pool and spa sector. It has an IP67 waterproof design so it can be used in situ (for instance poolside, outdoors and in humid environments) and has a large touchscreen interface.

In addition, Palintest has developed a range of waterproof handheld photometers for use by pool and spa operators: these include Lumiso Pooltest 3, which is used to test for chlorine, pH and cyanuric acid; Lumiso Pooltest 4, which is used to test for alkalinity, bromine, chlorine and pH; and Lumiso Pooltest 6, which enables a complete water balance calculation, with tests for alkalinity, bromine, calcium hardness, chlorine, cyanuric acid and pH.

These Lumiso products are compatible with Palintest Connect, Palintest’s cloud-based data management software, which allows operators to upload, view and manage data on water quality easily.

A combination of Palintest’s innovative products, software and technical support gives pool and spa operators confidence in field data quality, saves them time and resources, and improves efficiency.