Milesight Industrial Routers Compared: UR41, UR35 and UR75
How to size an industrial cellular router by ports, SIM count and power budget rather than cellular generation, with published current draw figures and live UK prices.
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Milesight Level Sensors Compared: EM400, EM500 and the Radar Models
Seven Milesight LoRaWAN distance and level sensors compared on technology, beam angle, battery life and live UK prices, with the beam-geometry check that decides most installations.
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Construction plant theft: the law is coming for your quad bike, not your excavator
The Home Office puts organised plant theft at £675m a year. The new Equipment Theft Act covers ATVs and GPS units. Everything else on site is still on its own.
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Buy LoRaWAN Sensors UK: 10 Proven Checks for a Safe Order
The UK procurement guide to buying LoRaWAN sensors: EU868 band, UKCA/CE and PSTI, warranty and RMA, import VAT and landed cost, payload decoders, grey-market checks, trade pricing and a 10-question pre-PO checklist with real 2026 GBP prices.
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The EU Data Act: Your Sensor Data Stops Being the Vendor’s
TL;DR: The EU Data Act has applied since 12 September 2025, and it already gives the user of a connected product a legal right to the data that product generates, free of charge and in a machine-readable format. What changes on 12 September 2026 is narrower and more consequential: from that date, products placed on…
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Wi-Fi HaLow vs LoRaWAN: Which Long-Range Wireless Wins in 2026?
TL;DR: Wi-Fi HaLow vs LoRaWAN is not a close fight once you name the constraint. LoRaWAN wins on reach and fleet size: one gateway covers 15 km line of sight and over 2,000 nodes. Wi-Fi HaLow wins on payload: 1 km line of sight, over 200 nodes, and up to 32 Mbps against LoRaWAN’s tens…
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How to Run an IoT Pilot Project That Turns Into a Rollout
TL;DR: An IoT pilot project fails at the planning stage, not the technical one. Agree one metric, one baseline, one pass mark and one decision date before you buy anything. Scope it to one site, one gateway and six to twelve sensors, from £360.62 ex VAT. Survey coverage first, then run a twelve-week clock to…
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What to Buy First for an Industrial IoT Deployment: The LoRaWAN Starter Kit
TL;DR: A LoRaWAN starter kit is the fastest honest route into industrial IoT, but only if you buy all four layers: sensors, a gateway, a network server, and somewhere the data lands. Indiott kits run from £360.62 to £619.49 ex VAT. Below is the shopping list, the gateway decision rule, the arithmetic of kit versus…
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Industrial IoT Cost in the UK: 3 Real Budgets With Verified Prices
Last updated: 24 July 2026 TL;DR: A realistic industrial IoT cost in the UK is £1,159.68 of hardware for a 10-point pilot, or roughly £70 per monitored point per year across a five-year life. Sensors run from £32.92 to £371.09 ex VAT and gateways from £98.76. The costs that wreck budgets are not the sensors:…
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Managed vs Unmanaged Industrial Ethernet Switches: Which Does Your Site Need?
Short answer: if the network is a handful of devices in one cabinet and nobody will ever need to segment it, diagnose it remotely or keep it up when a cable fails, an unmanaged industrial switch is the right buy — it is cheaper, has nothing to configure and nothing to misconfigure. The moment the…
