Sensing & IoT

The camera is one sensor. Give the site its full nervous system.

Gates, tanks, temperature, weather, doors, power—SurveillX ingests the signals a camera cannot see, alerts on the change that matters, and stores every reading beside the footage it explains.

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Sensing layers

Owned on the node. Recorded with the video.

Sensor hardware is enabled per deployment. Device classes are supported through standard decoding; individual models are validated against the site's equipment.

01 / LORAWAN

Your sensor network. No vendor cloud.

SurveillX nodes can run a complete LoRaWAN network server on-site. Long-range, battery-powered sensors join a network you own—managed through the same console, APIs, and AI tools as the rest of the platform, with no per-site sensor-cloud subscription and no dependency on an internet path just to hear a door open.

Embedded network serverA full LoRaWAN stack (ChirpStack v4) on the node itself—gateways, applications, and devices under local control.Deployment-specific

Device lifecycleProvision, key, rename, and retire devices; manage device profiles and payload decoders through console, API, or governed AI tools.Deployment-specific

Auto-registrationKnown device types appear on first uplink with decoded readings—no per-device onboarding ceremony.Available

Downlinks + groupsQueue commands to a single device or multicast groups for configuration and control use cases.Deployment-specific

Decoded historyEvery uplink is decoded, stored, and queryable—signal quality and battery state included.Available

Managed remotelyThe entire LoRaWAN estate is visible and manageable through the fleet surface—no site visit to add a sensor profile.Available

Per-device health card for a gate door contact: healthy status with an explanation, reporting cadence, RF signal quality, and RSSI and battery voltage trends

02 / WEATHER

On-site weather, not the nearest airport.

Direct-wired professional weather stations give the site its own measured truth—wind, rain, temperature, humidity, pressure, light—refreshed continuously and paired with every recording. Forecast data fills in what instruments cannot: what is coming next.

Direct-wired stationsIndustrial weather stations (SenseCAP ONE family) connected to the node over serial—no radio dependency, sub-second live readings.Validated hardware

Wind that keeps upFast wind sampling captures the gust peaks slower systems alias past—relevant for crane holds and lift decisions.Validated hardware

Derived windowsRolling 1-hour and 24-hour rainfall and gust maxima computed on the node, reset-safe.Available

Charted historyEfficient change-based storage with server-side downsampling keeps months of readings chartable in one request.Available

Forecast blendHourly and daily forecast at the node's GPS position complements measured conditions.Available

Wireless weatherLoRaWAN weather-station classes ride the same ingest path where wiring is impractical.Supported class

Live sensor dashboard showing temperature, wind compass, 24-hour wind, light, rain, and humidity trends, and air quality readings with a live freshness badge

03 / ALERTING

Alert on the change, not the heartbeat.

Sensor alerting is edge-triggered: a gate left open alerts once when it opens—not on every battery-saving heartbeat the device sends for the next six hours. Thresholds, liveness, and delivery all run on the node, so alerting works even when the backhaul does not.

Per-device thresholdsMin/max bounds per metric per device, with re-notify intervals when a sustained breach should keep escalating.Available

Edge-triggered logicAlerts fire on the breach transition. Open and close are each one event, regardless of how chatty the device is.Available

Multi-channel deliveryOne threshold event fans out to signed webhooks, email/SMS paths, and the live operator view simultaneously.Available

Door-contact flowThe full open/close alert chain is field-validated on real contact hardware.Validated hardware

Two-layer livenessSensor-offline and node-offline are separate signals—a quiet sensor is not mistaken for a dead site, or vice versa.Available

Physical responseConfigured deployments can connect events to on-site outputs—relays, lights, sirens, and audio talk-down.Deployment-specific

Live LoRaWAN device panel showing gate door contacts with health status, battery, signal quality, open counts, a late-device attention state, and an open/close event history

04 / SENSOR MESH

Satellites report to the hub.

Not every measurement point deserves a full camera node. Sensor-only satellites—a weather station on a far corner, instruments at an outbuilding—forward their readings to a hub node over whatever backhaul exists, with delivery guarantees designed for links that fail.

Forward-mode nodesA satellite node replays its stored readings to a hub's authenticated ingest—the hub sees one merged sensor picture.Deployment-specific

Durable backfillDelivery tracks a durable high-water mark: an outage queues readings locally and flushes on recovery. No reading lost.Available

Authenticated ingestPer-node tokens scope exactly which node may publish which data—rotation and revocation included.Available

Any backhaulLAN, cellular, or tunnel—the satellite only needs an outbound path to the hub.Available

05 / AIR QUALITY

The air is part of the record.

Dust complaints, wildfire smoke, and enclosed-space ventilation are field decisions long before they are paperwork. On-site CO₂ and particulate readings—beside the cameras that show the cause—give teams early warning and honest documentation. These are indicative sensors for awareness and evidence, not certified compliance instrumentation.

Continuous CO₂ + PMCO₂, PM2.5, and PM10 measured by the same on-site weather station—no separate air-quality deployment.Validated hardware

Video-correlated spikesA particulate spike has a timestamp, and the timestamp has footage. See what was happening on site when the reading changed.Available

Dust awarenessTrack PM10 through demolition, earthmoving, and cutting so mitigation decisions come before the complaint does.Available

Smoke daysSite-local PM2.5 supports outdoor-work decisions during wildfire smoke—better than a reference station miles away.Available

Threshold alertsAir-quality metrics ride the same edge-triggered alerting path as every other sensor—webhooks, email/SMS, live view.Available

Trend historyStored readings with charted 1h/6h/24h views document conditions over the full work window.Available

06 / USE CASES

What a site can sense.

Anything that speaks LoRaWAN or wires to the node can join the record. Classes below marked “validated” run in the field today; “supported class” devices use standard decoding and are validated per deployment.

Gate + door contactsAfter-hours access, open-too-long conditions, container and shed security.Validated hardware

Weather stationsWind holds, rain thresholds, lightning-adjacent decisions, documentation for delay claims.Validated hardware

Tank + fuel levelGenerator fuel, water tanks, and consumable levels without a drive-by.Supported class

Temperature + cold chainMaterial storage, curing conditions, refrigerated assets, freeze warnings.Supported class

Water leak + moistureLeak detection in temporary facilities, soil and slab moisture context.Supported class

Air qualityCO₂, PM2.5, and PM10 from the on-site weather station; standalone LoRaWAN air sensors as a supported class. See air qualityValidated hardware

Vibration + equipmentRuntime and condition signals from pumps, generators, and rotating equipment.Supported class

Occupancy + countingPresence and utilization signals for offices, laydown areas, and access points.Supported class

How sensing flows

From radio to record to response.

The hot path is local: readings are decoded, stored, and evaluated on the node. Delivery happens where you configure it.

Field sensors

Signals

LoRaWAN devices — battery-powered, long range
Wired weather station
Digital I/O contacts
Satellite sensor nodes

The node

Local truth

Decode + store on-site
Thresholds evaluated at the edge
Two-layer liveness tracking
Recorded beside the video timeline

Response + review

Delivery

Live operator view
Signed webhooks + email/SMS
APIs + governed AI agents
Charted history + reports

“A camera tells you what happened in its field of view. Sensors tell you what happened everywhere else.”

Instrument the site

Tell us what you need to know about your site.

We'll map the sensors, radio coverage, alert routing, and validation plan to get it onto the same record as your cameras.

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