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Synchronized, instant notification on iPhones, iPads, Android devices, PC and Mac.
Wireless sensor tags connect events in physical world, e.g. motion, door/gate opened/closed, temperature exceeding limits, to your smart phones, tablets and Web browsers on PC/Mac anywhere in the world with Internet access. An event is instantly received on all devices (unless you configure it not send to some). through push notification, no messaging charges apply.
The wireless sensor tag is a real-time, cloud based system, so any change you make from one device instantly appears on your other devices: watch what this means.
Open Web service API and custom URL calling on event allow integration into your existing or custom web enabled home/office automation system. -
Small, inexpensive and years of battery life.
A wireless sensor tag is small, inexpensive (retails $18 for motion/temperature sensor tag), and has up to years of battery life depending on settings and usage. See technical spec. These are possible because all the power hungry tasks are performed by the Ethernet Tag Manager, which is plugged into the wall power and to your Internet connection. Each wireless sensor tag focuses simply on sensing the physical world and sending the information back to the Ethernet Tag Manager up to 60m (200ft) away, in the most energy efficient way possible. Maximum 255 wireless sensor tags can be associated with one Ethernet Tag Manager.See technical spec.
Motion/temperature wireless sensor tag is currently available, additional types of wireless sensor tags (human presence, current sensor for electrical appliance on/off detection) are under development, and can be associated with an existing Ethernet Tag Manager.
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Highly sensitive.
Each wireless motion sensor tag has a 3D digital magnetic sensor that can precisely measure the orientation of the tag (referenced to the magnetic field of the Earth) with a resolution less than 1 degree. Periodic measurement detects the slightest orientation change resulting from the tag being touched/moved. Watch demo of sensitivity test. In magnetically noisy environments (such as near a moving magnet!), the user can reduce the sensitivity up to several orders of magnitude to eliminate false alarms.
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Ultra low power.
Unlike other acceleration sensor based motion sensors, the sensor does not have to be always on in order to capture a disturbance at its exact moment. This patent pending technology of angle based motion sensing trades off a few seconds in notification delay for years of battery life with a tiny coin cell battery, allows each motion sensor tag to be small, light and thin. The user picks a different trade-off between response delay and battery life that best suits the application, individually for each wireless motion sensor tag.
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Three-dimensional angle detection
3D magnetic sensor detects not only tilt, but also horizontal rotation. Therefore, it does not matter which direction the tag is placed with respect to the rotation or disturbance to be detected. Watch demo.
When configured in "Door/gate mode", each tag may be strapped to garage doors, regular doors in any orientation, or simply thrown into your fridge door pocket (See the entire process of setup) to monitor if the door is open or closed. You can configure the Web app, Android or iOS app to speak to you when a door is opened, opened for too long, or until door is closed from the Motion Sensor Options (iOS/Web/Android). With some tweaks, monitoring sliding door is also possible.
When configured in "motion detection mode", each tag may be attached to remotes, keys etc to receive notifications and access historical statistics when they were used.
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Click/tap and go digging.
Because each wireless sensor tag is so small, anybody can easily lose one. Tap the beep button in the iOS/Android/Web app, and the tag will keep beeping until it is picked up. All you need to do is track down the beeping sound and pick up the tag, and the beeping will stop automatically. See details: iOS or, Web/Android.
Attach the tag to key chains, put inside your wallet, or strap to TV remote controls, and never waste time looking for these items again. -
Customizable response delay and battery life.
By using the Wireless Settings, you can change trade-off between battery life and range (slower datarate results in longer range but worse battery life since it takes longer to transmit/receive), battery life and response time.
For example, if it is something you only look for once a year, and want the battery to last several years, set it to "within 9 sec" response time, and "38.4kbps" data-rate, and battery life is estimated to be 85 month (about half of that when motion sensor is armed.) .
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Virtually no false alarms.
By setting "Auto-Ping" or "Update every...", each Tag is configured to transmit a status information back to the Tag Manager at a certain interval. Upon receiving such status information, Tag Manager transmits an acknowledgement response back to each Tag. When the Tag does not receive the acknowledgement, it repeats the status information transmission for up to 16 times before giving up.
The system only decides that the tag is missing and send out notifications when it does not receive the status information by the estimated time plus the time needed for the retransmissions. Therefore, even when because of temporary radio interference a single transmission is not successful, very reliably the system can detect if a Tag has gone out of range or gone missing.
See how to receive out-of-range notification: iOS or, Web/Android.
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Temperature monitoring with battery life in mind.
Wireless Sensor Tags are designed to maximize battery life. Since transmitting data over the air uses a lot more energy than reading from the internal temperature sensor, each Tag transmits only when temperature has become too high, too low or returned to normal range. To this end, each Tag has built-in algorithm with hysteresis (to prevent back-and-forth transmissions when temperature is at the boundary) to determine if one of these three events have occurred, and transmitting only then and when temperature monitoring is enabled.
You can program the upper and lower temperature threshold and calibrate out temperature sensor offset from the "Temprature Sensor Options" (iOS, Web/Android). -
Automatic temperature logging.
When "Auto-Ping" or "Update every..." is enabled for out-of-range notification, the tag appends the latest temperature sensor reading to the status information packet transmitted. Since the radio channel to the Tag Manager only needs to be made ready once, the additional battery drain minimal.
You can review historical temperature at each tag by tapping the "Temperature Stats" button in tag detail screen (iOS, Web/Android). You can also download the entire captured raw data as one CSV file for custom processing.
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Made with high quality elastic material.
The tag is enclosed in a high quality (Dynaflex G2706, by GLS PolyOne, made in USA), strong (can be stretched up to about 6x the original length without permanent deformation), translucent (diffuses the LED light to allow it be visible), elastic (absorbs shocks, allows removal of internal board to change battery) case with bands on the sides.
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Strap to anything using attached Velcro tape.
Thanks to the one-piece elastic case with bands, the tag is not only much more drop resistant than regular electronic equipments with a hard case, but also can be easily strapped and taken off from almost any objects.
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Resistive water detection and capacitive moisture level sensor.
This tag has a resistive sensor at its tip to detect water presence, and capacitive sensors across the exposed portion of the circuit board to measure dielectric constant of the surrounding air/soil/liquid.
The moisture level is derived from measured capacitance after a two point calibration by user to define, what kind of condition is "0%" and what is "100%".
The resistive water detector is immediate, while the moisture level measurement is taken and compared against adjustable thresholds at a user configured interval. -
Longer battery life, water proof.
By removing the piezo buzzer from the tag, we made room for a CR2450 battery which has 3x capacity than the battery used in our regular motion sensor tags. The circuit board, together with the battery have a water-proof coating. The battery is designed to last the life-time of the tag, and is not repalceable without breaking the coating. This tag is fully compatible with all existing Ethernet Tag Manager we shipped.
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