Wireless sensing and monitoring for South African sites
A condition can sit out of range for hours before anyone looks.
Wireless sensors measure the physical conditions across your sites, check every reading against the limits you set, and tell the person who can act, or switch a valve or a load on their own.
Augos Sense is wireless IoT sensing for South African sites: battery-powered sensors that measure temperature, humidity, air quality, level, flow, pressure and equipment state, one cloud platform that checks every reading against the limits you set and alerts on WhatsApp, email or SMS, and switches and valves that act on your rules.
Priced per sensor, plus connectivity and the platform, quoted ex VAT
A single sensor can be live in 48 hours, with no wiring to run.
The problem
You have no live view of the conditions that matter, or the tools to act when they move.
The things that matter to your operation move constantly: temperature, pressure, level, air quality, vibration. Checked by hand or not at all, a problem only shows once it has already caused damage.
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Blind between checks
Manual rounds and periodic readings leave long gaps. A condition can sit out of range for hours before anyone looks.
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You find out too late
By the time the problem is noticed, the asset is already damaged, the batch is off, or the process has been running wrong for hours.
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Alarms no one sees
A local panel beeps in an empty room. The warning never reaches the person who could have done something about it.
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No idea what changed
Without the history, you can't see what moved, when, or why, so the same thing happens again next month.
The method
Always-on measurement that flags the problem and routes it to whoever can act.
Wireless sensors watch each condition continuously. Set the range you care about, and the moment a reading moves outside it, the right person is alerted, or a switch or valve acts on its own. Why you are watching changes by site; the way it works does not.
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Always measuring
Every condition read continuously, as often as every sixty seconds, day and night, so nothing drifts in the gap between manual checks.
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Alerts on your terms
Set the range that matters. The moment a reading crosses it, the right person is told, wherever they are.
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Act automatically
Trigger a switch or a valve on its own, or send someone in, before a small problem becomes an expensive one.
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Whatever you're protecting
The same sensors protect assets, hold product quality, or tune a process. What you measure sets what you get from it.
What we sense
Whatever you need to watch, we can measure it.
Some sensors serve several areas, so you will see overlap. Each page brings together everything relevant to that area, so it stands on its own.
8 parameters
Environmental
The weather and air around your site, measured live.
Air temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind, irradiance, rainfall, wet bulb, dew point
Explore environmental ›6 parameters
Air quality & safety
The air your people breathe, watched for danger.
Particulate matter, VOC, NO2, SO2, CO and CO2, smoke
Explore air quality & safety ›In development
Proximity
Presence and position across your sites.
Presence, distance, occupancy
Enquire about Proximity ›In development
HSE
Health, safety and environment, monitored.
Heat stress, gas exposure, dust
Enquire about HSE ›15 parameters
Agriculture
Soil and water, for smarter growing and irrigation.
Soil moisture, temperature and salinity; water level, flow, pressure and salinity; weather
Explore agriculture ›11 parameters
Commercial & industrial
What is happening inside your pipes and tanks.
Pressure, flow, level, industrial gas, leaks, temperature, vibration, water quality
Explore commercial & industrial ›5 parameters
Machine & industrial
How your equipment is running, before it fails.
Equipment state, equipment temperature, vibration, pressure, flow
Explore machine & industrial ›5 devices
Control & automation
Switching and valves, run on your own rules.
Airswitch, loadshedding and tariff switching, valve controllers
Explore control & automation ›The platform
Everything the sensors feed, in one place.
The readings land in one cloud platform, where your team watches them, sets the alerts and acts, without a spreadsheet in sight.
Instantaneous dashboard
For sensors that report a live value, like temperature, humidity or flow. See each reading now, with its trend and whether it sits inside the range you set.
In the knowledge base ›State dashboard
For sensors that report a state, like open or closed, on or off, running or tripped. See what is where at a glance, and when it last changed.
In the knowledge base ›Custom alerts
Set a threshold on any reading and get told the moment it is crossed, sent to the person who can act on it.
In the knowledge base ›Intelligent control
Switch load, valves and equipment on your own rules: a schedule, loadshedding, a time-of-use tariff, or a live reading from another sensor.
In the knowledge base ›Charting
Plot any reading over any period, compare sensors, and save the views your team keeps coming back to.
In the knowledge base ›Data export & AI
Pull any reading out as a download, by API or as an AI-ready export, for your own tools.
In the knowledge base ›Alerts and thresholds
Set the limits that matter, and hear about it the moment a threshold is exceeded.
For each sensor, you set the safe range: an upper limit, a lower limit, or both. Augos checks every reading against those limits, and the moment one is exceeded, the person who can act gets a message, on WhatsApp, email or SMS.
Cold room temperature against an upper limit
IllustrativeMessage sent
Cold room is above its limit
8.6 °C at 02:20, past your 8 °C upper limit.
One reading past the limit, one message to the people you chose, sent the moment it crossed.
Illustrative cold room and readings, not a customer. The limit, the recipients and the channel (WhatsApp, email or SMS) are the ones you set.
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Upper and lower thresholds
A maximum, a minimum, or both, per sensor.
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More than a single number
Alert on a rate of change, before a reading even leaves its band, or on a state change: a door opening, a detector tripping.
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Routed to who can act
Sent to the people you choose, and a sensor that stops reporting raises its own alert.
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An alert can also act
The same reading can trigger intelligent control, switching a valve, a pump or a load on its own.
Customer result
Monitoring built to assure quality, not just uptime.
National food producer
Every minute
Motor health and cold-store temperature, humidity and door state logged every minute, as a tamper-proof digital log for food-safety inspection and export audits. From the Augos case study on a pasteuriser plant.
Read the case study ›Customer result, from the published case study. The basis is stated on the card. All Sense case studies ›
Hardware
Wireless sensors, built to run for years.
A family of sealed, battery-powered sensors, each built for one parameter, on hardware Augos designs and builds. They mount where the condition is and report over low-power wireless, with no mains and no cabling.
1 · The sensor
Measures one thing well
A sealed, battery-powered sensor reads its parameter and sends it over low-power wireless. It mounts magnetically, calibration-free, with no mains and no cabling.
2 · Connectivity
Reaches anywhere
LoRa, NB-IoT or Sigfox, chosen for the coverage and density of your site, so a sensor works in a basement, out in a field, or across a whole plant.
3 · The Augos cloud
Hosted in South Africa
A gateway on site, or the mobile network, relays each reading to the Augos cloud, encrypted, and handled in line with POPIA.
Pricing and deployment
Priced around the sensors you deploy.
Augos Sense is priced in three parts, so you pay for what you put in the field. Start with a single-sensor pilot and scale from there.
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The sensors
Priced per sensor, by what each one is built to measure.
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Connectivity
A monthly cost per sensor for the wireless link.
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The platform
One charge per deployment for the cloud, dashboards, alerts and control.
Figures on request: we size a quote, ex VAT, to the sensors and sites you need. No rip-and-replace and no commitment: a single sensor can be live in 48 hours, and you add more once it proves out. Sensors mount magnetically, with no wiring to run and no calibration to perform. How a sensor is deployed ›
Questions
What can Augos Sense measure?
Physical conditions across eight areas: temperature, humidity and weather; soil and water; air quality and gases; equipment state and vibration; pressure, flow and level; and switching and valve control. If it can be sensed, it usually fits.
How do the sensors connect?
Wirelessly, over LoRa, NB-IoT or Sigfox, chosen for the coverage and density of your site. There is no wiring to run, so a sensor goes where the condition is.
How long do the batteries last?
Years, depending on the sensor and how often it reports: the temperature sensor runs up to about two years on a full charge, configuration dependent. Sensors report at intervals you set, from once a minute to a few times an hour, and need no mains and no cabling.
Can it control things, or only monitor?
Both. Set a rule and Augos can switch load, a valve or equipment on a schedule, in line with loadshedding, by time-of-use tariff, or on a live reading from another sensor.
How fast can we get started?
A single sensor can be live in 48 hours. Add more sensors and more sites the same way, whenever you are ready.
Where does the data go?
Into one cloud platform, hosted in South Africa. Watch it live, set alerts, chart it, or take it out as a download, by API or as an AI-ready export.
How are you priced?
Per sensor, plus connectivity monthly and the platform per deployment, quoted ex VAT. The single-sensor pilot is the standard way in.
Start with a single sensor.
Book a short call. Tell us what you need to watch, and we'll show you the sensor, the alerts and the control working on your own site.