Obscape Uses Voltaic In Rugged Environmental Devices
Obscape is a designer and manufacturer of easy-to-use environmental monitoring products. Their devices are placed in extremely challenging locations...
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Quick Install Video – 25 Watt CORE Solar System
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...
New Climate Futures Voltaic Customer Showcase
Voltaic's customers power their industrial IoT applications with our solar panels and solar power systems, and many of these products have a positive...
Voltaic Powers Hohonu Sensor for Real-Time Tide Monitoring in New York Harbor
Voltaic recently collaborated with one of our customers, Hohonu, a company dedicated to real-time water monitoring, and the not-for-profit Brooklyn...
The Sun Fuels Their Imagination: Students Create Solar-powered Art
NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) is a two-year graduate program that has been described as both an art school for engineers and an...
Solar Powered LoRaWAN Node + Lithium 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...
Things Network Presentation – Using Solar to Power a LoRa Node
Voltaic Systems presented recently at the Things Conference Embedded 2022. The Things Network launched the Generic Node at the conference and Voltaic...
How to Put an ESP32 into Deep Sleep
Why Use Deep Sleep in the ESP32 When IoT devices are plugged in, power consumption is often not a primary engineering consideration. However, in...
Testing Solar Charging Efficiency for IoT Devices
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...
Use VHB to Attach Your Solar Panel to an Enclosure
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,...
Solar Powered Object Detection with Raspberry Pi
Solar Powered Edge AI Introduction This tutorial will introduce you to an object detection application for the Raspberry-Pi (R-Pi) running with Open...
Custom Shaped Solar Panels
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...
Tide Monitoring With Ultrasonic Sensors
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...
Solar Powered River Gauge with Particle
StreamBeam a community funded, volunteer run organization has built some beautiful stream monitoring gauges using ultrasonic sensors, Particle Boron...
Solar Kit for Makers Giveaway (20 Winners!)
This contest is closed. Congrats to all the winners! Great to see all the exciting projects in the works including weather, water, garden monitoring,...
FieldKit Wins Grand Prize at Hackaday 2019
FieldKit, a core project of Conservify, was recently awarded the Grand Prize of the 2019 Hackaday Prize. Conservify works to build and develop tools...
Autonomous Solar Powered Raspberry Pi + Camera
An autonomous, solar powered Raspberry Pi with camera and cellular connectivity is a useful application for timelapse photography and remote...
Solar Powered Full Spectrum Sensing with Apogee
In this post, we test how to run an Apogee full spectrum sensor from a small solar panel or simply a battery. The sensor measures PPFD which is the...