IoT Tutorial

The Digi IX30 cellular router is used in a broad range of industrial applications including private LTE networks. In cases where power is difficult to access, our CORE Solar Systems can run the router and any...

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...

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...

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...

Power consumption for Machine Learning applications have dropped to the point where they can run off batteries and relatively small solar panels. We show you how to run a simple audio recognition project...

Overview This blog post is a step-by-step walkthrough to run a Nano 33 IoT application from solar power. You will learn about: Managing power consumption on an Arduino Nano 33 IoT Converting RS485...

Solar Powered License Plate Recognition The goal of this project was to power and operate the Einar License Plate Recognition (LPR) camera with Voltaic's new solar system, which integrates a LiFePO4 battery...

Project Overview Solar powered asset trackers present a number of interesting design challenges. You have a device with variable power consumption moving across geographic regions with an inconsistent...

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...

Overview: Learn how to create a cloud-connected IoT device using an ESP32 connected to a DS18B20 temperature sensor temperature probe. In this tutorial, you will: Program your board using the Arduino IDE...

Knowing the electrical IV characteristics of your solar panel is critical in determining your panel’s performance in real world conditions and understanding how it will interact with your charge...

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...

To run an IoT device year round from solar, you need to estimate how much power you will generate per day. This will vary based on geographic location, time of year and local weather conditions. Luckily, there...

In this post, we show how to design a solar-powered water quality monitor using readily available components. The device is designed to float in salt water and send temperature, dissolved oxygen and other...

I paired up with Voltaic Systems to create a cellular, solar-powered water quality monitor. For phase one one of the project, I configured an Adafruit FONA to a water temperature probe and publishes the...

In this post, we show you how to build a solar-powered asset tracker for your bicycle or other important equipment using Adafruit FONA 808 and Freeboard. We will show you how to 3D print a custom case, wire...