Augos Sense / Environmental
Environmental sensing
Measure your environment, wirelessly.
Temperature, humidity, wind, rainfall and more, measured continuously around your site. Get alerted the moment a reading passes a limit you set, and see it all on one cloud platform.
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 read on the conditions around your own site.
The air around your operation drives more than people think: how a crop grows, whether a process holds spec, how hard your cooling has to work, and whether your team is safe in the heat. The microclimate at your gate can look nothing like the forecast for the town down the road.
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Quality moves with the air
Heat and humidity swing product quality and shelf life, and most sites only notice once a batch has already turned.
2
Condensation you never see
When a surface drops to the dew point, water forms on it, quietly rusting steel and growing mould in a store nobody is watching.
3
Solar you can't explain
An array underperforms and you cannot tell whether it is the panels or simply the irradiance that day.
4
Safety calls made blind
Wind, lightning and heat stress stop cranes and outdoor work, but the call to stop is a guess without live numbers on site.
The method
One sensor turns a blind spot into a live reading.
Put a sealed, battery-powered sensor on each condition you care about. It reports to one cloud platform, and Augos does the watching, so you only hear about it when something moves.
1
Measure it
A wireless sensor on each condition, reporting as often as every minute, on a battery, with no wiring to run.
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Get told
Set the range that matters. The moment a reading passes it, you get a message on WhatsApp, email or SMS.
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Act on it
Trigger a fan, a vent or a pump automatically, or send someone before a small problem becomes an expensive one.
What we measure
The environmental parameters.
Each parameter is a separate sensor, so you deploy only the ones you need and add more anytime.
Air temperature
Ambient air, indoors or out.
In the knowledge base ›Humidity
Moisture in the air.
In the knowledge base ›Barometric pressure
Atmospheric pressure.
In the knowledge base ›Wind speed & direction
How hard, and from where.
In the knowledge base ›Irradiance
Solar energy on a surface.
In the knowledge base ›Rainfall
Precipitation over time.
In the knowledge base ›Wet bulb
Temperature with evaporative cooling.
In the knowledge base ›Dew point
Where air saturates and dew forms.
In the knowledge base ›Alerts and thresholds
Set the limits that matter, and hear about it the moment a threshold is exceeded.
Set an upper limit, a lower limit, or both for any sensor here. The instant a reading passes it, the person who can act gets a message, on WhatsApp, email or SMS.
Humidity in a dry store against an upper limit
IllustrativeMessage sent
Dry store humidity is above its limit
71 %RH at 06:00, past your 70 %RH upper limit.
The store crossed its limit at 06:00, hours before anyone would have walked it.
Illustrative store and readings, not a customer. The limit, the recipients and the channel are the ones you set.
Use cases
Where sites put it to work.
Greenhouses & nurseries
Hold temperature and humidity in a tight band per zone, and catch a fungal outbreak or a heat-stress event before it spreads across the crop.
Open-field farming
Frost, heat and wind on the block itself, so you know when to run frost protection, hold a spray, or pull people off before a storm.
Solar performance
Irradiance on your own roof shows what the array should be making, so a drop in output reads as a panel fault rather than a cloudy day.
Cold chain & storage
Ambient temperature and dew point in a store or loading bay catch it drifting warm before the product, and the packaging, are out of condition.
Dry & bulk storage
Humidity and condensation in a warehouse or silo, so grain, packaging and stock stay dry and mould never gets started.
Building comfort & HVAC
Indoor temperature and humidity across a site, so you tune cooling to what the space actually needs instead of running it flat out.
Food & beverage
Ambient conditions in production, maturation and cellars, held where the recipe and your standards need them.
People & outdoor work
Wet bulb, wind and rain where the work happens, so you can call a stop on live numbers instead of a guess and keep people safe.
The hardware
The sensor that does the watching.
A sealed, Augos-branded wireless sensor with its own antenna and probe. It mounts indoors or out and reports over the network that suits your site. The temperature sensor, as the KB specifies it:
- Range: -55 to 125 °C, accurate to ±0.5 °C.
- Battery: rechargeable, up to 2 years per charge, configuration dependent.
- Connectivity: cellular, NB-IoT or LoRa.
- Mounting: magnetic and calibration-free.
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 ›
Start small
Start with a single sensor.
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.
Augos Sense is priced in three parts: the sensors, priced per sensor by what each one is built to measure; connectivity, a monthly cost per sensor; and the platform, one charge per deployment. Figures on request: we size a quote, ex VAT, to the sensors and sites you need.
Questions
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.
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.
How fast can we install?
A single sensor can be live in 48 hours. Sensors mount magnetically, with no wiring and no calibration, so a site electrician or your own team can fit them without downtime. You add more sensors and sites the same way.
What can it alert on, and how?
Set an upper limit, a lower limit or a rate of change on any sensor. The moment one is passed, the right person gets a message on WhatsApp, email or SMS.
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.