Case Study

Off-Grid Pest Monitoring at 10,000+ Devices, 6+ Years on One Battery

The program produced an award-winning, unique technology solution that replaced legacy eradication methods with a smart, compliant, connected one.

Industry

Industrial IoT & OT

Time Frame

7 Months

Services We offer

Embedded & Firmware

Hardware Design

LPWAN

Design for Manufacturing

About the client

A large pest-management company.

Problem Statement

Controlling pests across airports and granaries with legacy methods was no longer viable under environmental regulation. The client needed smart, connected devices that could run unattended for years in the field.

The Challenges

Years on one battery

Multi-year field life meant engineering every microamp, from sensor duty cycles to the LoRa and Sigfox radio schedule.

Cost target and manufacturability

The design had to hit BOM cost targets and transfer cleanly to high-volume contract manufacturing.

Approach

We engineered for extreme low power and long range:

Ultra-low-power devices with multi-year battery life
Low-power radio over LoRa and Sigfox
An integrated module controller with custom firmware
Prototyping and pilot production, then transfer to high-end contract manufacturing

The Solution

The devices sense activity using PIR and accelerometer inputs and report over long-range, low-power radio, running for more than six years on a single battery. We carried the design from prototype through pilot to a manufacturing-ready unit that met BOM cost targets.

The impact we delivered

1+

Devices deployed in the field

1 yr+

Battery life per device

1 mo

Prototype to pilot production

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Off-Grid Pest Monitoring at 10,000+ Devices, 6+ Years on One Battery

Ultra-low-power sensing devices for airports and granaries that run for years on a single battery, communicating over LoRa and Sigfox, taken from prototype to pilot production.

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