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Blues provides an ecosystem of hardware and software to simplify wireless connectivity for IoT devices. Voltaic uses Blues’ Notecard and Notecarrier in our battery health monitoring module for our solar...

This hands-on tutorial guides you through the following steps to create an energy-efficient, wireless sensor system with on-device machine learning and seamless data transfer.  Implement Edge Impulse...

Project Overview We deployed a solar powered water level monitor in New York Harbor on Governors Island using Particle’s Monitor One Developer Edition. Similar to the Tracker One, the Monitor One is a code...

Overview: Learn how to create a LoRa wireless networked device with an Adafruit Feather M0 RFM95 LoRa Radio 900MHz connected to a sensor and powered by a e-Peas energy harvester and a Lithium Ion Capacitor...

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...

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...

It is amazing how many times we suggest 3M VHB and other high bonding tapes as a method to attach a small solar panel to an enclosure. At first look, you think this is just double sided tape, but it is really...

  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...

Blog Overview: IntroductionParts List and Arduino WiringArduino Code and Battery Charge TestsPython Code and Datalogging Battery Voltage OutputConclusion and Continuation Introduction Voltaic has added...

Solar Powered Edge AI Introduction This tutorial will introduce you to an object detection application for the Raspberry-Pi (R-Pi) running with Open CV that consumes very little power. The system is designed...

DIY Solar Powered Bristlebot There are lots of vibrabots and bristlebots out there, but we had trouble finding a solar powered version. In this post, we show you how to use Voltaic's mini solar panels to...

Sentient Things is using their IoT platform to measure and report tides in real time. Robert Mawrey provides a detailed tutorial on how to build your own solar-powered weather and tide monitoring system on...

StreamBeam a community funded, volunteer run organization has built some beautiful stream monitoring gauges using ultrasonic sensors, Particle Boron and Voltaic solar panels. The monitors are placed on bridges...

Most IoT projects include a number of the same components including a real time clock, data logging and power management. Robert Mawrey, founder and CEO of Sentient Things, built the IoT Node to shorten the...

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...