Use cases

If it reports numbers over a network, it fits.

Five shapes we designed for, written as example builds. We're in beta — when these become customer stories, we'll say whose.

01

Vehicle & asset tracking

A trailer, a generator, a tool crate. The device reports a fix as ordinary telemetry keys and its page draws the track — start marker, live position, hover readout — with no map-tile contract underneath.

Heartbeat alerts cover the case that actually matters: the asset that stopped reporting.

4h 12m38.2 kmlast fix 3s ago

Telemetry keys

gps_latgps_longps_speed_mpsbattery_v

Features used

GPS tracks · heartbeat alerts · OTA

02

Irrigation & soil

Moisture per block, a few bytes a day, a season of battery between visits. Valve positions travel the other way as desired config the node confirms when it next wakes.

Because config converges rather than fires and forgets, a missed window doesn't silently leave a valve in the wrong state.

block-a · soil_pct31%
block-b · soil_pct58%
valve_open (desired)true
valve_open (reported)true ✓

Telemetry keys

soil_pctvalve_openrain_mm

Features used

Config convergence · threshold alerts

03

Industrial machine monitoring

Vibration and temperature per motor at a rate that catches a bearing going bad. Rate-of-change alerts fire on the trend, not just the ceiling.

When something does go wrong, pull the device's compressed log buffer without sending anyone to the floor.

rms_mm_s crossed 4.5 · alert sent 12:04

Telemetry keys

rms_mm_stemp_crun_hours

Features used

Rate-of-change alerts · remote logs

04

Water & utility metering

Endpoints sending very little, very reliably. Each meter owns its own object at the edge, so the cost of the ten-thousandth looks like the cost of the tenth.

Regulated retention? Point telemetry at your own line-protocol endpoint and the history accumulates there instead of here — we hold only the latest value of each key, which is what the dashboard and alerts read.

Ingest destinationyour endpoint

POST https://tsdb.yourco.net/write

meter,id=0417 litres_total=48213 202

// platform history store: bypassed

1/day report0 gateways

Telemetry keys

litres_totalflow_lpmtamper

Features used

Bring-your-own database · fleet OTA

05

Smart parking & city infrastructure

Bay occupancy across a district, each sensor its own small object served from the edge nearest it. A pilot of five costs almost nothing, and growing it is the same architecture rather than a re-platform.

Public-sector procurement tends to ask who holds the data. The answer is in the licence and the code.

Zone C · 24 bayslive
14 occupied10 freeupdated 2s ago

Telemetry keys

occupiedsince_tsrssi

Features used

Edge-served objects · AGPL self-host

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