Last updated: 8 September 2026 In short: Lone worker safety is a risk assessment duty, not a device purchase. Working alone is legal. What is not acceptable is failing to assess the risk and put arrangements in place. A LoRaWAN panic button is a genuinely useful fixed alarm inside your own site, and it is…
Last updated: 4 September 2026 In short: A site weather station replaces “the forecast said it was fine” with a timestamped record of what the wind actually did, at your location, at the height that matters. For lifting operations that record is the difference between a defensible decision to continue and an argument after the…
Last updated: 3 September 2026 In short: Process temperature accuracy is decided by the probe class and the wiring, not by the transmitter’s resolution. A PT100 changes about 0.385 ohms per degree, so one ohm of lead resistance is a 2.6°C error, roughly six times a Class B probe’s own tolerance at 0°C. Three-wire connection…
Last updated: 2 September 2026 In short: A Modbus gateway reads registers from legacy plant over RS485 and republishes them as MQTT, LoRaWAN or a cloud feed. The retrofit rarely fails on the concept. It fails on register limits, byte order, polling rates and a two-wire bus that was never terminated properly. Those five things…
Last updated: 1 September 2026 In short: The network server is the piece of a LoRaWAN deployment nobody asks about at quote stage and everybody argues about later. It decides who holds your device keys, whether the site keeps working when the internet drops, and how painful it is to add a second gateway. There…
Last updated: 28 August 2026 In short: Off-grid monitoring almost never fails because of radio range. It fails in February, because the solar array was sized on an annual average instead of a British December. A gateway drawing 3.6 W needs roughly 150 W of panel and around 50 Ah of lithium storage to run…
Last updated: 25 August 2026 In short: UK law sets three noise thresholds at work, at 80, 85 and 87 dB(A). Battery powered noise monitoring sensors on a LoRaWAN network cost around £42 each and report sound levels for years without wiring. They are not legal measuring instruments. Their job is to show you which…
In the UK a LoRaWAN transmitter may be on air for one percent of any hour. That is 36 seconds, it binds the gateway too, and it is what really caps a network.
Last updated: 12 August 2026 RF shielding is not decided by how thick the metal is. It is decided by the size of the holes in it. A microwave oven door blocks 12 cm microwaves using a mesh of 2 mm holes, while letting visible light straight through the same holes. A wave will not…
Six Milesight UC controllers matched to what your existing plant outputs, from a £38.90 Modbus-to-LoRaWAN converter to IP68 field units and latching valve controllers.