Smart Cities Sensor Network Selection – Pros and Cons
When you’re deciding which Smart Cities IoT device to use, there are lots of important decisions to make —most importantly the mode of connectivity. Wi-Fi and cellular are two long-standing and popular IoT network protocols, more recently joined by LoRa (Long-Range,...
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Really Smart Buildings
Low-power, long-range sensor networks should be seen for what they are: a potentially disruptive technology. Better known by its acronym “LoRa”, the networks fulfill many of the same practical functions that other “smart building” networks do, but at a disruptive...
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5 Simple Questions to Determine if Your Company is Ready for IoT
YOU may be ready to implement IoT (Internet of Things) in your organization – but perhaps you have to sell it internally or need to justify the investment. There are 5 simple questions to determine if your company is ready for IoT. If you answer “yes” to any or...
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Caravela Adds New Environmental Sensor to Dashboard
Photo by Call Me Fred on Unsplash Caravela started monitoring the air quality outside of our location close to the Molson Coors and Harley-Davidson facilities on the west side of Milwaukee, a mile or so north of the industrial Menomonee River and Miller...
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Caravela Grants Free Lora Network Access in Milwaukee
The Caravela team is engaged in a considerable amount of R&D around Smart City applications. What sensors work best, how can different sensors be utilized creatively, what are the properties of various wireless protocols, and who else is doing interesting things...
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Smart City LoRa Network Reverse RFP For-Profit Winner!
We have our winner! We were honored to receive so many responses and inquiries about our Smart City reverse RFP. There were two categories for responses: one non-profit and one commercial enterprise. Winning projects receive technical help to establish their...
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Smart City LoRa Network Reverse RFP Non-Profit Winner
We have a winner! We were honored to receive so many responses and inquiries about our Smart City reverse RFP. Winning projects receive technical help to establish their application successfully and also receive the benefit of our expertise in overall project...
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Smart City Initiative – Reverse RFP
Caravela is pleased to offer this “Reverse” Request For Proposal that seeks interesting applications for our Smart City urban network. You bring the desire to capture data and put it to good use. We supply expertise and systems to make it a reality. (More details...
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Practical Smart City Data Collection
Smart City networks have been heralded as a thing for the future for the last ten years. Their proliferation has been just over the horizon, tantalizingly close yet in reality never getting any closer. A prevailing argument is that the advent of 5G will be the impetus...
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A Working Smart City Network
Understanding IoT for the Factory Floor
Data “tags” are essential to any industrial process on the factory floor. They rarely leave the factory floor, but when they do, a great deal can be learned from them for operational queries such as: “What was the state of the system when the tank started leaking?”...
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