Sensors
Key features to look for when choosing a sensor:
- Easy installation
- Boot strapping
- Battery life – for your use case in your environment
- Documented test results
- OTA config, compehensive remote management solution
- OTA fw upgrade
- Robust & reliable
- Serviceable – battery, firmware
- Security – data comms, data on device, device ownership/physical tampering
- Diagnostics
- Low cost
- Warranty
- Fully serviced solution
- SIM card management, multi network, changeable/reprogrammable
- Sensor/control accuracy
- Open standards – ability to connect to various gateways and networks
- Approved for your environment
- Range for your application in your environment
- Data rate for your application – Or edge intelligence
- Edge intelligence, thresholds, inc warnings and hysteresis
- All required sensors, connections to sensors, meters, probes, etc
- Logging to memory
- Fast send on alarm conditions
- Resilliant to noise, low Snr, unreliable connection paths?
- Internal/external antenna
- Integrated with your chosen application platform & network
- Network coverage in your area
- IP rating
- Environmental testing
- Operating temperature, humidity, etc
- Drift
- Shipping by air – batteries
- Designed for your use case