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In discussions with customers, we often suggest they purchase a solar irradiance meter. We believe it is critical to testing any solar panel or, more importantly, the performance of a solar panel in...

Poor air quality causes a range of very bad health outcomes, but we still know relatively little about the air we breathe. To address this problem, there are a growing range of commercially available air...

Lithium Ion Capacitors (LICs) are a great alternative to traditional lithium ion batteries in many LPWAN applications. While less power dense, they have a very broad temperature range and a very high amount...

The Arribada Initiative strives to make conservation technology open, affordable, and accessible to all who need them. They designed an open-source, programmable, low-cost, time lapse camera for Penguin Watch...

Voltaic Systems presented recently at the Things Conference Embedded 2022. The Things Network launched the Generic Node at the conference and Voltaic used the opportunity to focus on the design process for a...

Rainforest Connection is a non-profit technology organization that creates acoustic monitoring systems to help end illegal deforestation and fight climate change. Voltaic Systems' engineering team worked with...

LoRa based air quality sensors powered by hybrid capacitors and solar. Sensedge, an IoT design and solutions company, wanted to be able to run their Senstick Outdoor Air Quality Sensor for ten years with a...

Why Use Deep Sleep in the ESP32 When IoT devices are plugged in, power consumption is often not a primary engineering consideration. However, in remote, battery or solar-powered solutions the power...

Optimizing the energy consumption of your solar-powered IoT device can be a daunting task.  We're here to help.  This blog post will walk you through testing your circuit to ensure that you are getting the...

  Introduction This tutorial will demonstrate how to make a simple direct drive solar chimes sculpture with a Voltaic mini solar panel. The solar chimes concept is based on an early solar power...

Voltaic first met Sebastian Kennerknecht at an International League of Conservation Photographers event several years ago. He is a wildlife and conservation photographer with a specific focus on wild cats and...

Fellow New Lab Member FOAM implemented their first Zone for Proof of Location in the Brooklyn Navy Yard this year, and its powered by Voltaic solar panels and IoT battery packs. FOAM builds tools to...

Designed to address the fragility of communications networks after natural disasters and blackouts, Project OWL brings together software and hardware to create a solar-powered emergency mobile network. The...

Yes, it is possible to make a solar panel in a custom shape. At Voltaic, we manufacture custom and standard small solar panels and while most are rectangular, we have experience designing and deploying a full...

Tips for Traveling with Solar One of the biggest questions we get from customers is regarding the safety of traveling with solar chargers and lithium ion battery packs. Whether you're flying domestically or...

This contest is closed. Congrats to all the winners! Great to see all the exciting projects in the works including weather, water, garden monitoring, sound art and water fountains. We're getting in the...

FieldKit, a core project of Conservify, was recently awarded the Grand Prize of the 2019 Hackaday Prize. Conservify works to build and develop tools and technologies that make it easy for communities to...

An autonomous, solar powered Raspberry Pi with camera and cellular connectivity is a useful application for timelapse photography and remote monitoring. In this post we will show you how to set up and program...