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Battery powered sensors are deployed onto assets, their location being determined at no capital cost (no GPS receiver) and at low energy.
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Danalto specialises in the provision of managed Low Power Wide Area services for a range of IoT use cases for Industrial, Smart City, Agriculture and Mining. One of the pioneering services that danalto has intellectual Property (under license from trinity College Dublin - www.tcd.ie) is through the use of Software Defined radio technology, to locate LoRa (TM) IoT sensors, and the assets they are attached to and monitoring. LoRa(TM) is a versatile means of communicating with sensors, reaching very hard to reach spots on sites, such basement areas and riser shafts etc. and is capable of covering site sizes of 1.5 to 3km, with a minimum of infrastructure. The solution involves both digital signal processing at the edge of the network plus position calculation of sensors on backend servers, which then binds met-data to the sensor (or asset) data record and then logs/forwards this geo- tagged data for presentation in the host User Application (e.g. Google maps or other Building Information management (BIM)) platform of the client). Sensors are battery operated and DO NOT require GPS/GNSS for location determination. Location determination is performed by software on backend servers. This means that sensors are deployed once onto assets, greatly reducing the maintenance and operational costs over the entire construction period. Sensors are typically configured for up to 3- 8 years of operation, depending on the rate of tracking required. The deployment model of the solution involves: the deployment of gateways surrounding the site requiring monitoring, placement of sensors onto the assets to be tracked, and the provision of geo-data to the client host data management platform. Geo-fencing notifications and alerts can also be provided from the danalto location solver platform, as well as other device management and data representation services. The network is easily deployed and can typically be "popped" up in 1 day, following a site survey. Further , as a site evolves, the network can be rearranged or extended, allowing the area over which the Local Position system operates to be easily extended. The overall solution is at TRL level 7, and already been field trialled.