Machines that tell you what they are doing
A temperature that drifts, a van that stops moving, a machine that's about to fail. The value isn't in collecting the reading. It's in the right person's phone ringing while there's still time to do something.
What you end up with
- Working devices, tested somewhere real rather than on a bench
- A dashboard showing the current state of everything at once
- Alerts that reach a specific person through a channel they read
- Firmware and server code, documented and owned by you
How the work actually goes
We choose the sensor and how it gets home
Connectivity decides most of the project. Mains-powered kit inside a warehouse can use WiFi; a tracker in a vehicle needs a mobile connection and a power budget; something in a field with no coverage needs a different radio entirely. We settle this before anything is ordered, because it is expensive to revisit.
A handful of units, in the real place
We deploy a small batch where they'll actually live: the cold room, the vehicle, the factory floor. Bench tests never reveal the interference, the temperature swings, or the person who unplugs the device to charge a phone. This stage is what stops a hundred-unit mistake.
One screen, and alerts that reach a human
A dashboard that answers the obvious question in one glance: is anything wrong right now? Alerts go to a named person by whatever they actually read, with sensible thresholds. An alarm that cries wolf gets muted within a week, so we tune it with you.
Roll out, and watch the fleet
Once the pilot has survived a few weeks we scale up, with remote firmware updates so you're not visiting sites to fix a bug. You get a view of device health: battery, last contact, signal. With hardware, the failure you can't see is the one that hurts.
What we build it with
Hardware gets picked to fit the site, not the other way round: what power is available, what signal reaches it, and how often it genuinely needs to report.
- ESP32
- Arduino
- MQTT
- Raspberry Pi
- AWS IoT Core
- LoRaWAN
- Cellular (LTE-M / NB-IoT)
- PostgreSQL
Questions people ask us
- Can you work with hardware we already have?
- Usually. If the existing devices expose their data in any documented way, it is often faster and cheaper to build around them than to replace them. We check that first before recommending new kit.
- What about battery life?
- It's a design constraint from day one rather than an afterthought. How often a device reports is the biggest factor, and we'll show you the trade-off between hourly readings and a battery that lasts a year, so you choose it deliberately.
- What happens when a device loses connection?
- It keeps recording and sends the backlog when it reconnects, so you do not get a hole in your data. The dashboard also flags devices that have gone quiet, which is often the first sign of a real problem.