Nova Metrix

Nova Metrix is a geotechnical, environmental, and materials-testing instrumentation company headquartered in Wakefield, Massachusetts and founded in 2009. It designs and manufactures sensors, instruments, monitoring software, and consumables for structural-health monitoring, construction, civil engineering, energy, and medical markets, operating in more than 90 countries. Nova Metrix is the parent of a family of specialist geotechnical and fiber-optic brands including Roctest, Sensornet, Sherborne Sensors, Soil Instruments, Westbay Instruments, DGSI, Waterloo Hydrogeologic, and Van Essen Instruments. It is backed by Battery Ventures, Commonwealth Capital, and Ascent Venture Partners. As of this enrichment pass Nova Metrix publishes no public developer API, developer portal, or machine-readable API artifacts; this profile carries verified company identity rather than an API surface.

Nova Metrix is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Geotechnical, Instrumentation, Sensors, and Monitoring.

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyGeotechnicalInstrumentationSensorsMonitoringStructural HealthEnvironmentalCivil Engineering

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Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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name: Nova Metrix
description: Nova Metrix is a geotechnical, environmental, and materials-testing instrumentation company headquartered in
  Wakefield, Massachusetts and founded in 2009. It designs and manufactures sensors, instruments, monitoring software, and
  consumables for structural-health monitoring, construction, civil engineering, energy, and medical markets, operating in
  more than 90 countries. Nova Metrix is the parent of a family of specialist geotechnical and fiber-optic brands including
  Roctest, Sensornet, Sherborne Sensors, Soil Instruments, Westbay Instruments, DGSI, Waterloo Hydrogeologic, and Van Essen
  Instruments. It is backed by Battery Ventures, Commonwealth Capital, and Ascent Venture Partners. As of this enrichment
  pass Nova Metrix publishes no public developer API, developer portal, or machine-readable API artifacts; this profile carries
  verified company identity rather than an API surface.
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- Instrumentation
- Sensors
- Monitoring
- Structural Health
- Environmental
- Civil Engineering
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maintainers:
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