Site Analysis and Advice (Remote)

Solar CBRS/Wifi/LORA collection station in CO

Deploying science site sensors requires solving a host interrelated issues:

a) How will the sensor obtain power, how much power is needed?

b) What environmental, safety, access, and security constraints exist? Who owns the site or what permitting is required? How will the system be protected against theft, bears, lighting strikes, and other equipment hazards?

c) What other systems does the sensor need in order to serve a scientific workflow (data loggers, edge compute, data storage, other sensors, etc.). What Local Area Network (LAN) requirements does the sensor have?

d) How long will the sensor remain in a location? Will the sensor be relocated at the end of this campaign?

e) What control or monitoring functions need to be available remotely? 

f)  What are the modes of data collection for the sensor? How much, how often, and in what form does the sensor collect measurements and how is it intended to operate within the workflow it serves?

g) What are the Wide Area Network considerations for the system? What latencies, data speeds, data reliability, resilience, requirements exist, and how does the sensor either handle or be protected from loss of communications?

ESnet's Wireless Edge program can help make all of this easier.

We are happy to assist your efforts to solve these problems, and can offer advice on equipment, project management, recipes, lessons. Contact us at engage@es.net for a no-cost consultation!

RF and LOS simulation

We are happy to provide lessons learned from our own field site efforts, as well as put you in touch with resources in academia and elsewhere who can help you solve your remote site data mobility challenges.

We can also offer site coverage analysis and simulation modeling across commercial, private cellular, LoRA, wifi and other bands, and we can assist with radio placement and both WAN and LAN access.  We also work with a wide range of local Research and Educational and commercial connectivity providers and are happy to point you in the right direction and help build the right relationships to support your research.