Environmental monitoring sensors for remote field sites.
Remote sensors for field monitoring, designed around your parameters and your site: custom board, low-power firmware, a long-range radio link and a data store you can export from. Our LoRaWAN node is the engineering base, though its one trial unit runs indoors rather than in the field.
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The problem
Remote deployments ask a lot of a sensor at once. It runs on limited power for a long time, sends readings over whatever coverage the site has and sits outdoors in all weathers, often far from anyone who could reset it. A consumer board in a box may cope for a while, but a study that depends on continuous data usually needs hardware designed for it. Power budget, radio range and enclosure are linked, so we would settle them together at the start. Our own trial node ran indoors, in a plant room, so no outdoor deployment sits behind this page, and on any project we would say what is new ground. Site visits can be days away, so the data should say what the device itself is doing as well as what it measures.
What we'd build
Field sensors designed around your parameters and your site
A sensor unit built around the parameters you need, with low-power firmware, long-range radio and a data store. This describes what we would build for a project, and no outdoor unit of ours exists yet. The parameters, the power budget and the radio coverage of the site would be the first design questions, answered before any layout begins.
| Layer | What we'd do | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Custom board | A board built around the measurements you need, such as water, air, soil or weather, with a power system that suits the site. Solar charging would be considered where the site allows it. | Sensor types and ranges for your parameters, calibration needs, and a power budget worked out before the board is laid out |
| Firmware | Low-power firmware that sleeps between readings, because a field sensor may go a long time without a visit. | On our node: sleep capped at 20 s, progress markers readable over ST-Link |
| Radio | LoRaWAN, NB-IoT or BLE, chosen for the coverage the site has, with gateway placement planned with you. | A coverage survey of the site, gateway placement and power for the gateway |
| Data | A telemetry database holding every site's readings, with exports shaped to your analysis. | Export format and the analysis tools you already use, sampling interval and how gaps in the data are marked |
| Mechanical | Enclosure design and mounting for your conditions, scoped with you at the start. | Weatherproofing, mounting on posts, banks or buoys, and protection from animals and vandalism |
How working with us goes
- 01 Scope We agree what has to be built, where it lives and where the data goes.
- 02 Prototype Working hardware and firmware on your bench, tested against real conditions.
- 03 Pilot A small batch on real sites, with fixes folded back into the design.
- 04 Production Design for manufacture, a production run, and support once it is in the field.
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