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Can you install solar panels facing a wall or tree? It depends on distance from the object, latitude and panel sizing! For northern latitudes and taller buildings, the panels need to be further and further...

Hack The Planet is a Dutch non-profit that develops technological solutions to protect nature. Their latest product is ScannerEdge, an intruder detection system with LoRaWAN and satellite connectivity....

Obscape is a designer and manufacturer of easy-to-use environmental monitoring products. Their devices are placed in extremely challenging locations around the world including coastlines, ports, offshore...

Dutch-based Jeng IoT recently released a new version of their ConTracker asset tracking solution. The new tracker includes an integrated solar panel (P134) which makes the device fully...

Passenger ferries in the Stockholm archipelago rely on a century-old system of mechanical semaphores to signal when someone is waiting to board. The problem is they are hard to see in fog, rain, snow, at...

When customers have solar system performance issues with city deployments of IoT devices, the first question we ask is "what are the coordinates?" Then we immediately open ShadeMap. ShadeMap visually shows...

With the help of Harmony Analytica, we installed a solar powered weather station from seeed studio on the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm. In this post, we show you how to: wire the CORE system to power and...

Our integrated, Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) battery solar systems reduce both upfront and long-term maintenance costs of remote deployments. In this post, we lay out the advantages of running a fleet of...

We recently put together a system to solar power a Verkada security camera, Sierra Wireless (Semtech) cellular router and Teltonika PoE Switch on a construction site.  We bench tested the actual power...

Voltaic spoke with Olivier Bloch from the IoT Show and Björn Rosqvist from Qoitech about harvesting ambient energy and the future of powering IoT devices. Voltaic Systems designs small solar panels for high...

Our CORE Solar Systems were designed with ease of installation in mind. We have reduced the number of parts and steps required to deploy a solar system, cutting down on complexity and deployment time. We...

Digi is a trusted name in the wireless world, known for making LoRaWAN connectivity rugged, reliable, and easy to deploy. Their latest product, the Digi HX20, is a modular, IP67-rated outdoor LoRaWAN gateway...

This is a quick demonstration on how to power the BirdWeather PUC from solar power. The PUC listens to the sounds around it and is able to identify over 6,000 birds and many other non-avian species. It uses...

Overview Voltaic’s CORE Solar Systems were designed to provide easy to deploy, scalable power for a range of industrial IoT devices including: IP and Edge AI cameras, LoRaWAN gateways, cellular routers and...

Voltaic's V25, V50, and V75 added USB-C input output function to its batteries to support faster charging and bringing them in line with other battery packs on the market.  Voltaic’s 5V Always On feature...

We recently deployed a solar-powered Things Industries' Generic Node in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It connects via LoRa to a Things Network solar powered gateway. Using the Generic Node's onboard sensors to...

We recently launched a solar-powered LORAWAN Gateway for The Things Network in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. While The Things Network is open to everyone to use, the impetus to deploy the gateway was supporting...

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...