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This is a quick demonstration on how to power the BirdWeather PUC from solar power. The PUC listens to the sounds around it and is able to identify over 6,000 birds and many other non-avian species. It uses...

Overview Voltaic’s CORE Solar Systems were designed to provide easy to deploy, scalable power for a range of industrial IoT devices including: IP and Edge AI cameras, LoRaWAN gateways, cellular routers and...

Voltaic will soon be updating our V25, V50, and V75 batteries to a faster charging standard, bringing them in line with the newest consumer power systems on the market.  These changes will allow for faster...

We recently deployed a solar-powered Things Industries' Generic Node in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It connects via LoRa to a Things Network solar powered gateway. Using the Generic Node's onboard sensors to...

We recently launched a solar-powered LORAWAN Gateway for The Things Network in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. While The Things Network is open to everyone to use, the impetus to deploy the gateway was supporting...

Poor air quality causes a range of very bad health outcomes, but we still know relatively little about the air we breathe. To address this problem, there are a growing range of commercially available air...

Lithium Ion Capacitors (LICs) are a great alternative to traditional lithium ion batteries in many LPWAN applications. While less power dense, they have a very broad temperature range and a very high amount...

The PurpleAir Outdoor Air Quality Monitor is a popular device for measuring PM2.5 concentrations. In some cases, a grid connected power supply is unavailable and customers need a way to power the system from...

Why Use Deep Sleep in the ESP32 When IoT devices are plugged in, power consumption is often not a primary engineering consideration. However, in remote, battery or solar-powered solutions the power...

It is amazing how many times we suggest 3M VHB and other high bonding tapes as a method to attach a small solar panel to an enclosure. At first look, you think this is just double sided tape, but it is really...

Voltaic first met Sebastian Kennerknecht at an International League of Conservation Photographers event several years ago. He is a wildlife and conservation photographer with a specific focus on wild cats and...

Fellow New Lab Member FOAM implemented their first Zone for Proof of Location in the Brooklyn Navy Yard this year, and its powered by Voltaic solar panels and IoT battery packs. FOAM builds tools to...

Designed to address the fragility of communications networks after natural disasters and blackouts, Project OWL brings together software and hardware to create a solar-powered emergency mobile network. The...

Yes, it is possible to make a solar panel in a custom shape. At Voltaic, we manufacture custom and standard small solar panels and while most are rectangular, we have experience designing and deploying a full...

Sentient Things is using their IoT platform to measure and report tides in real time. Robert Mawrey provides a detailed tutorial on how to build your own solar-powered weather and tide monitoring system on...

Tips for Traveling with Solar One of the biggest questions we get from customers is regarding the safety of traveling with solar chargers and lithium ion battery packs. Whether you're flying domestically or...

StreamBeam a community funded, volunteer run organization has built some beautiful stream monitoring gauges using ultrasonic sensors, Particle Boron and Voltaic solar panels. The monitors are placed on bridges...

Most IoT projects include a number of the same components including a real time clock, data logging and power management. Robert Mawrey, founder and CEO of Sentient Things, built the IoT Node to shorten the...