STEP 1
Facility review
We look at what is installed, which parameters are critical and where the losses are today.
At your facility or remote
LoRaWAN: one gateway, sensors that run for years, no cable
This is the radio layer under everything else on this site. One base station covers a facility on the European licence-free band, sensors run for years on a battery, and nothing has to be cabled or added to your corporate network.
up to 10 kmopen ground, from one gateway
yearsbattery life per sensor
EU868the European licence-free band
What it gives you
Why the radio layer is LoRaWAN
Every monitoring system has to get readings from a sensor to a server. That choice decides what installation costs, how often somebody changes batteries, and whether your IT department has to approve anything.
One gateway per facilityA single base station covers buildings and yard, so there is no radio kit to add zone by zone.
EU868The European licence-free band. No spectrum fee, no SIM and no operator contract.
Sub-GHz through structureLower frequencies pass through walls and floors far better than 2.4 GHz does.
Battery years, not monthsSensors send small packets infrequently, so a battery lasts years rather than a season.
No cablingNothing to run through a cold room wall, across a yard or above a production line.
Independent of your networkSensors do not touch corporate WiFi, so there is nothing for IT to approve.
Points added laterA new sensor joins the existing gateway in minutes, without revisiting the design.
One backhaul, not manyThe gateway alone reaches the server over 4G, Ethernet or WiFi. The sensors never do.
LoRaWAN is a low-bandwidth technology, and that is the price of the range and the battery life. It carries readings, states and counts. It does not carry video, and it is not a control loop: when we switch equipment the command travels the same way and arrives in seconds, not milliseconds, so anything needing a hard real-time response stays on its own controller and we read it rather than replace it. The 10 km figure is open ground. Inside a steel-framed building with concrete floors it is a fraction of that, which is why coverage is surveyed rather than quoted.
The cheapest sensor is the one nobody has to cable
Coverage is worked out from your layout, not from a datasheet figure.
The alternatives
What else you could do, and what it costs
The alternative
What it costs you
What LoRaWAN does instead
Cable to every point
Trays, wall penetrations, and usually a shutdown to install them
One gateway, and sensors fixed with screws
Put sensors on site WiFi
Coverage stops at the wall, and your IT department owns the problem
Its own radio, with nothing on your network
A SIM in every sensor
A contract per device and a battery measured in months
One backhaul at the gateway, batteries measured in years
A standalone data logger
It tells you afterwards, once somebody walks over and collects it
It tells you now, and keeps the record itself
Proof
Screens from live facilities
Already running at
agricultural holding
logistics operator
national grocery chain
steel pipe and railway wheel manufacturer
pig farming and food production group
Deployments to date are largely in Ukraine.
Rollout
From pilot to full coverage
STEP 2
Pilot on 5-10 points
A gateway, sensors and meters on the riskiest zones. Installed without stopping operations.
A few hours per facility
STEP 3
Dashboards and reports
We draw up the facility plan, set the limits for each point, the alerts and the report formats.
Shaped around your processes
STEP 4
Scaling up
The same kit across the remaining zones and facilities, with a single view for the whole company.
No new approvals needed
Next step
We will work out the coverage for your buildings
Send us a layout and the distances between buildings. We will work out how many gateways you need and where the first sensors go.
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