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SKIDATA

By IoT & Smart Cities

SKIDATA’s new gate, sMove, uses radar to take customer experience to the next level. Using the XM125 from Acconeer, sMove can detect movement and obstruction from both humans and objects, making the gate superior in many different ways.nufactures IoT asset tracking, sensor monitoring, and telematics devices.

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2025-03-13

Digital Matter

By IoT & Smart Cities

Digital Matter’s technology enables businesses to better understand their assets and operations by measuring and monitoring critical metrics and parameters, whilst providing asset positioning throughout the world.
Digital Matter designs and manufactures IoT asset tracking, sensor monitoring, and telematics devices.

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2024-10-23

Agnex

By Industrial & Agriculture

California based company Agnex has together with Telit taken a new step into the future of tank intelligence, with a goal of delivering an affordable solution which installs in seconds, withstands the elements, measures in millimeters and is ready for business intelligence integration.

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2024-08-27

Wastebook

By IoT & Smart Cities

Around 80 percent of waste is collected too early, or too late. It costs extra to both us and our environment. This is the reason Wastebook created Jaete and set a new standard for waste collection.

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2024-05-02
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Cicicom

By IoT & Smart Cities

Cicicom, a distinguished Greek company, specializes in delivering complete IoT solutions leveraging Long-Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) and Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) technologies.

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2024-04-25

Haltian

By IoT & Smart Cities

Haltian, a Finnish company and one of the world leaders in IoT, is transforming vehicle detection by integrating radar sensors, making it an ideal solution for any parking application.

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2024-03-19

Magnus Monitors

By Industrial & Agriculture, IoT & Smart Cities

Magnus Monitors uses radar in their tank level monitor with a completely non-intrusive design

Magnus Monitors founded in 2017, is an IoT enabled cloud based smart telemetry solutions company based in Galway, Ireland, that has developed a connected tank level monitor that features the Acconeer radar sensor. In 2020 when the development team evaluated a number of different technologies for their new line of products, radar was traditionally considered complicated, expensive and in need of mains power. That’s when they tried the new Acconeer radar sensor and it ticked all the boxes for their upcoming tank level monitor in terms of cost, accuracy, and power consumption. Thanks to the monitor’s battery powered design, the installation process is a minute’s work and just a matter of gluing it onto the tank. The product is unaffected by environmental factors and is designed to operate 24/7/365 for a wide range of industries.

Non-invasive installation allows monitoring of corrosive liquids

On plastic tanks, the radar level monitor is simply mounted by applying sealant at the bottom and placing it in the correct position. You don’t have to compromise the structure of the tank or drill any holes. Thanks to the characteristics of the radar waves from the Acconeer sensor, the fluid level is detected through the container material.

The monitor unit reads tank levels up to a height of 4 meters with an accuracy of ±5mm. It’s able to detect the surface of many different content types, even the ones that are chemically challenging for other technologies, such as:

  • Diesel/HVO/AdBlue
  • Gas Oil/Kerosene
  • Lubricants
  • Waste management recycling (waste oil and glass recycling)
  • Water
  • Chemicals/Detergents
  • Liquid Fertilisers

”Our radar level monitoring solution has allowed customers to enhance their service levels and customer retention, while achieving up to 30% increase in operational efficiency and a quicker ROI”

Shankar Ganesh Jayagopi, Founder & CEO Magnus Monitors

High accuracy with low power consumption

Battery lifetime depends on a range of factors both related to the internal settings of the monitor and external parameters such as temperature. However, with the outlined settings for message frequency, the monitor has a service life range from 5 to 10 years depending on measurement frequency and IoT connectivity signal coverage.

With the lowest power consumption in the industry, the Acconeer radar sensor employed in the monitor is very suitable to run on batteries. The pulsed coherent radar technology combines the best of two worlds when it comes to accuracy and power efficiency.

All containers are monitored remotely

Magnus Monitors provides a connected platform that aggregates data from all container monitor units and presents status and analytics. The supervising team sees the dashboard on a PC, a tablet or a smartphone and can then plan and act upon this data based on levels in each tank. Stock is more easily managed, and the service team can avoid unnecessary trips to check up container levels. The customer also has the option to access the data through the available API.

Each tank monitor device is connected to the web platform through a combination of Sigfox, NB-IoT and 2G, either by establishing the connection via NB-IoT or LTE-Cat-M in the first instance or using 2G access where the LPWAN (NB-IoT or LTE-Cat-M) options are not available or through a Sigfox based model.

About Magnus Monitors

Magnus Monitors consists of an experienced team with technical expertise in both advanced hardware and enterprise software that develops highly accurate end-to-end monitoring solutions. In 2020, the company partnered with Acconeer and pioneered the introduction of the world’s first truly wireless (battery powered) radar-based tank level monitoring solution.  Since then, the radar-based level monitoring solution has been adopted to many different use case applications, with the primary use case applications focused on the fuel oil distribution industry in particular, diesel, kerosene, lubricants​​, AdBlue, fuel additives. 

2024-01-15

Microtech Designs

By IoT & Smart Cities

Microtech Designs combines magnetic and radar sensors for superior detection of oncoming vehicles

Microtech Designs is an R&D company founded by Paul Salter and Glenn Fleming in 2014 based in Melbourne, Australia. They started out with the focus set to modernize the gate and door automation segment at the time and is now a full end-to-end development enterprise including hardware design, software development, mechanics, and manufacturing. Microtech Designs is one of the first companies to launch a commercial product including the new Acconeer A121 radar sensor. They have combined the radar sensor along with a magnetic field sensor in their vehicle detector product e-Loop, which is superior to traditional vehicle detectors in terms of operation reliability.

Initially, the team at Microtech Designs developed the vehicle detectors using only magnetic field sensors which worked well for their ”Exit Mode” product range. While designing the presence mode loops, they found relying on the magnetic field reading only was unreliable. That’s when they started searching for a second sensor that could detect if a vehicle was present. Eventually they ordered an Acconeer A121 evaluation board to test the viability of having two types of sensors in one detector unit.

One of their first observations was that the A121 fitted perfectly into their PCB due to the very small footprint and very few external components required. Other major factors why the team decided for the Acconeer sensor were the low power requirements and its reliability. Once the project started, the development using the A121 chip was extremely quick thanks to the resources and support provided by the Acconeer team.

”The A121 fitted perfectly into our PCB due to the very small footprint and only a few external components required.”

Glenn Fleming, CEO Microtech Designs

Required to operate 24/7/365

The combination of the dual sensors allows the system to first register the oncoming vehicle using the magnetic field sensor that in turn activates the radar sensor to verify the detection. The dual sensor arrangement makes the e-Loop detector one of the most reliable systems on the market. Once a vehicle is safely detected, the detector communicates wirelessly with the entrance gate to activate it.

The vehicle detector is mounted at ground level to detect oncoming vehicles to automate entrances and exits for parking garages. It’s designed to operate reliably 24/7/365 in temperatures ranging from -20° to 80° C in all weather conditions. The IP68 rated enclosure can withstand the weight of almost any vehicle and the four replaceable lithium batteries last up to 10 years.

About Microtech Designs

Microtech Designs is an Australian-based electronics design and manufacturing company focusing on industrial, commercial and domestic automation systems. The company was formed in 2014 in order to fill a gap in the gate and door automation segment that relied on what was considered outdated technology. Today, Microtech Designs specializes in garage door and gate control systems, 12VDC high power motor drives, RF data and two-way communication systems, integrated control systems for automotive applications, and wireless vehicle detection systems.

2023-12-11