Newspaper article about Decentlab
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Today the newspaper Freiburger Nachrichten published article about Decentlab and its history. Read full article
NEWS
Decentlab featured by Actility at Mobile World Congress'18 in Barcelona
/Reinhard, CEO of Actility's device maker partner Decentlab in Switzerland, demonstrates his LoRaWAN multi-sensor device for air quality monitoring. It monitors outdoors pollution abut also indoor air quality , temperature, humidity...
So far -33.19 °C is the lowest temperature in 2018 at Hintergräppelen
/Kaltluftseen.ch, an initiative by Stephan Vogt, measured in the night of 13th February at Hintergräppelen -33.19 °C with our temperature and humdity sensor with LoRaWAN data transmission. We are looking forward to even lower temperatures!
See video of weather station here
Real time data of Hintergräppelen
On twitter
In the news
First snow fall in this season measured at Holzegg
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We monitor for WSL, Hydrological Forecasts snow level for monitoring of a catchment with a variant of our Level/Displacement Sensor using an ultrasonic sensor. Beginning of this week we caught first snow fall measurements and now we can observe how it melts down or more layers of snow will add up on the cover over the next weeks and months.
Frost hollow monitoring with our air temperature and humidity LoRaWAN sensors
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Kaltluftseen.ch, an initiative by Stephan Vogt, monitors frost hollows in Switzerland. In this season he started to use Decentlab's air temperature and relative humidity with radiation shield (LoRaWAN) and the Data Access platform to monitor Hintergräppelen, a promising site to reach lowest temperatures in Switzerland.
On Tuesday morning we recorded a new minimum of this season with -21.89 °C. We are looking forward for a really cold winter.
More informations about the site Hintergräppelen (kaltluftseen.ch)
LoRaWAN network by Swisscom LPN
One full year of soil moisture monitoring
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One full year of soil moisture, electrical conductivity and temperature data sent over public LoRaWAN network from 3 locations in Switzerland.
Measurement and transmission interval: 10 minutes
Battery usage: 10%
LoRaWAN network: The Things Network Switzerland
Applications: Monitor and Control Irrigation Events in Nursery and Greenhouse Applications and Research
EmpaQuarterly Report: CO2 under surveillance
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Switzerland is to gain a dense, globally unique CO2 measuring network: 300 sensors permanently collect up-to-date readings, which form the basis for atmospheric dispersion models that are being developed at Empa.
Read full article in EmpaQuarterly
Decentlab devices and use case in the media
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Zeitschrift WOHNEN published a report about LoRaWAN. It gives an introduction to LoRaWAN and highlights several use cases including Carbosense. Illustrations for the report show our devices in action. Read full report
8th LoRa Alliance Open House & Market Place
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Visit us on 14th June at LoRa Alliance All Members Meeting in 3rd Floor Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. See you there.
CO2 sensors for Carbosense in pressure chamber
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Empa, Laboratory for Air Pollution / Environmental Technology is calibrating and testing our LoRaWAN CO2 sensors in the pressure chamber at Metas.
Read more about our project Carbosense
Outdoor calibration time for Carbosense
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Since mid of April Empa, Laboratory for Air Pollution / Environmental Technology, operates our LoRaWAN CO2 sensors next to their Nabel reference site to conduct outdoor calibration. The devices transmit readings over Swisscom LPN, based on LoRaWAN technology. In the next months we will roll out more than 300 CO2 sensors over whole Switzerland. Read more about our project Carbosense
Decentlab's devices at MWC17 @ LoRa Alliance
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See our LoRaWAN sensor devices at the booths of Orbiwise, Actility and LoRa Alliance during Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona. Thanks to all the partners which exhibit them.
Real time level monitoring demo with our new partner OrbiWise
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Check out our new demo together with OrbiWise. OrbiWise provides a full network software solution for LoRaWAN-based networks. Our sensors and application server fits perfectly in combination with the network server from our partner. The demo shows a piezoresistive pressure and temperature sensor for level metering applications like water supply, waste water, ground water or surface water.
Decentlab's LoRaWAN sensors at Swisscom LPN Experience store
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Visit LPN Experience store from Swisscom in Zurich at Stauffacher to see our sensors with LoRaWAN communication for level metering (liquids and solids), plant growth, soil moisture, meteorology and air quality (CO2).
Carbosense and our CO2 sensor with LoRaWAN on swiss television news SRF Tagesschau
/On February 6th 2017 swiss television news SRF Tagesschau reported about our project Carbosense and presented our newest LoRaWAN sensor for CO2.
Carbosense is a project initiated by Empa, Swisscom, Decentlab and SDSC. It proposes a worldwide unique, dense CO2 low power sensor network combined with atmospheric transport models.
See our LoRaWAN sensors live at E-World in Essen
/IVU Softwareentwicklung GmbH, our LoRaWAN network partner in Germany, will present our devices and web services at E-World Essen from 6th to 9th February. Visit them at their booth.
The focus of E-world energy & water is innovative solutions for the energy supply of the future - from generation, through distribution and storage to retail, efficiency and green technologies.In the area of storage, decentralised facilities and energy services, the trade fair is growing constantly.Numerous exhibitors present themselves at Germany’s largest Smart Energy trade fair with its focus on renewable energy and intelligent technologies.
We are sponsoring Make Zurich
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We are sponsoring Make Zurich 2017
Make Zurich is the civic tech and LoRaWAN hackathon for a better city. It will take place from February 3-4.
It will bring together the local hacker/maker community and the city administration to explore new ways of solving the problems of cities with the help of open networks and civic tech.
There will be six real needs of different departments of the City of Zurich that could be solved with LoRaWAN and civic tech.
Waste water level monitoring
/Since mid May Eawag, Department Urban Water Management, is testing our ultra sonic level sensor nodes to monitor waste water reservoirs within their field site Urban Water Observatory. A spatially distributed monitoring of the urban water cycle will be implemented during the next five years.
The nodes communicate using novel LoRaWAN technology. LoRa communication is an excellent candidate to realize such distributed monitoring applications. With its long range capabilities and low power characteristics it is ideal for the current monitoring setup.
Sensor data from our nodes are sent from below ground, inside sewer manholes and retention tanks to a LoRa gateway located on a roof of a public building. Gateway and network server infrastructure is operated by Loriot.io.
Visualization of sensor data, data export and data access run on our cloud infrastructure. We are looking forward to see first results from the field tests in the near future.
Very Long Range communication with Swissom LPN
/Yesterday a new LoRaWAN gateway was brought online by Swisscom LPN near Aarau (Wasserflue). Our node located in Fehraltorf recording precipitation successfully transmits its data over this gateway located more than 56km away!
The node is part of the research project Urban Water Observatory from Eawag, Department Urban Water Management in which the urban water cycle is monitored with spatially distributed sensors to answer pressing questions regarding future developments of water infrastructure.
The node further sends data over LoRaWAN gateway located on top of Bachtel since last Friday. Already before data has been received from the gateways on Zürichberg and Uetliberg.
It is great to see how Swisscom LPN network grows and data reliability and coverage increases.
See our realtime demo for Swisscom and other LoRaWAN network provider.
The Things Network coverage in region of Lake Murten
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End of July Thomas Amberg (@tamberg) and Decentlab did some LoRa (The Things Network) range tests in the region of Murten for TTN-Bern. See coverage map below including some measurements recorded crossing the lake by Thomas.
Coverage map created with coverage-mapper and LoRaWAN Demonstrator