iTesseract smart Enviro is used to sense multiple environmental aspects including:
- Air Quality
- Ammonia levels
- Oxygen levels
- Temperatures
- Humidity
- Harmful particles
- Barometric pressure (is it going to rain soon?)
- Ambient light
- Moisture detection (above and below ground)
These units are used in animal compounds, hospitals and food and beverage factories.
Data is collected either:
- Wired
- Bluetooth connection
And sent to cloud servers, to serve live monitors and smartphone views.
For Wired solutions distances cannot be too much, normally greenhouses works best here.
Bluetooth is where you cannot run wires because you must move these sensors (or remove for cleaning or ploughing) or distances are too long.
Bluetooth Distances are affected by multiple factors, line of site, vegetation, walls, machinery. It is hard to predict and best is to test.
Solution design:
Wired:
You will have one GSM smartController per area of 10 square meters.
One controller can have 6 moisture sensors, and ten temperature
One humidity and one barometric.
Bluetooth:
- One GSM smartController
- Barometric sensing, humidity and temperature, ambient light(environment)
- Can add Harmful particles, Ammonia and Oxygen levels,
- Up to 15 Bluetooth smartTags (up to 50 - 80 meters range, this means 100m radius)
- Sensors are wired to smartTag
- Each smartTag can have soil moisture and temperature for example.
- You can try to add another moisture here, not tested.
For future release we are working on longer Bluetooth ranges. BLE 5 offers 1 km ranges.
Power and GSM.
- We need power at each one of the smartController points.
- Solar conversion is available.
- Bluetooth tags are battery powered and either needs to be changed (Lithium-Ion), or charged (Lithium-ion, and Lithium Polymer)
- We need GSM signal at the location where the smartControl GSM is installed.
- Dashboards:
- Dashboards can be viewed in browser on phone or pc.
- Multiple users can view over browser.
We mold and treat our own containers and it is IP56 comparable. It is splash proof, can stand in rain and irrigation daily and is UV protected. It can withstand weather for up to 15 years.
All our products, container and electronics, firmware and backend systems are developed in South Africa. Some sensor components are imported from selected sources.
We offer: 1. Just buy and install self,
2. Install, maintenance and support, analysis and reporting
3. 24x7 monitoring
Contact us now for more information. jakes@itesseract.com