Thing Innovations recently spent a few days on the island of Martha’s Vineyard working with Herelab on the design of a new LoRaWAN sensor platform. This device can only be described as a Transformer of the IoT world. The device will be available in kit-form and feature plug in modules including display, bluetooth and sensors in addition to the LoRaWAN capabilities.
It can be:
- A Hand held sensor
- A LoRaWAN range testing device
- An educational tool
- A sensor node for buildings
- A sensor node for greenhouses, large and small
- A water quality monitor for hydroponics and aqua farms
- An air quality monitor
- A traffic monitor
- A weather station
- and many more uses
The first prototypes have recently being built, ready for demonstrations in the coming weeks.
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The first showing of the new sensor platform was at the IoT London meetup, spring showcase event in London. |
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Board shown with a DS18B20 temperature probe using screw terminals and a plug in BME280 Temperature/Humidity/Pressure sensor module. |
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Board shown with a DS18B20 temperature probe using screw terminals and a Whiteboxlabs tentacle mini shield to connect upto two Atlas Scientific. Example here is shown with a pH probe. |
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Close up of the BNC connectors. |
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Close up of the Whitebox labs Tentacle mini shield. |
More updates and use cases to follow.