“You can't improve what you don't measure.” Often attributed to Peter Drucker,

As we grow our network, we found managers struggling to afford the cost of proper reliable infraestructure for managing energy, water, and sundry machinery. We heard the needs of these specialist looking for plug and play solutions. There is a heavy reliance on proprietary walled products or very complex DIY approaches. We guess there is a better world in which open sourced co-developed solutions can be easy to use. We need the devices ourselves, but we find a better path trough reusing what the ecosystem already offers.

How This gets built.

Since we partnered with Greenant we think about a bring your meter program for the community. So we decided to be the first bringing a a device, and that should be more than a simple meter. Many things happen along the path and as we find new use cases we wanna keep things as simple and reliable as possible. We are placing standards first as the basement for the user to grow their own solutions around it.

We selected AsiaRF to fullfill the device based on their unique experience in 802.11ah infraestructure and as long history as realiable manufacturer. 

We end having a simple and versatile device capable of solving the metering and automation task completelly of online but still running small models. Is the device we are using in our Solar Storage, EV charger, water reservoirs, tractors and greenhouses. 

Let's hope it helps your business the same way it does for us. Talk with us about your usecase.

Features:

• 2 bydirectional current inputs (up to 100A compatible current clamps)
• 2 voltage inputs (2 via external transformers).
• Serial communications
  • RS485
  • RS232
  • CAN
  • GPS-LTE add-on
• 4 isolated relays (up to 10A)
• DIN Mountable
• AC (85-280v) powered
• temperature / humidity sensor
• Plug and Play

SOFTWARE 

• IEC/IEEE submetering real time calculation.
• MODBUS RTU master / gateway.
• Common Sensor Reading (Digital Twin data instance)
• Cumulative records.
• Real Time FREERTOS / Micropython 
• End 2 End standard TCP/IP. (802.11ah HaLOW)
• MQTT / CoAP / REST protocols.
• Self provisioning / OTA

UX

• Smartphone based activation and device configuration (NFC)
• Device discovery. (Did we mentioned Plug and Play?)
• Energy management dashboard.
• AI based resource (water, energy) analytics.
• Alert and report systems.
• API based availability of the data as timeseries based on InfluxDB
• API based access to other hardware functions.

Tell us about how YOU plan to use PROBE1 in your project and will find a way to make it happen together.