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LoRaWAN gateways and sensors on a burn-in rack

Industries

Commercial IoT, in the field

We don't sell industry playbooks. We design and build the LoRaWAN and IoT hardware those environments actually run — with three deep dives and related application teasers.

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Where those products run

Ceiling and wall housings for building IAQ and life-safety sensors
Ceiling and wall housings for building IAQ and life-safety sensors

Smart buildings

LoRaWAN IAQ, occupancy-adjacent sensing, and life-safety endpoints for a BMS you already run.

LoRaWAN ceiling and wall IAQ, occupancy-adjacent sensing, and life-safety endpoints that report into a BMS or monitoring stack the customer already owns. Indoor gateways sit on the same band plan.

Typical hardware

  • · IAQ ceiling/wall nodes
  • · Smoke / CO / heat endpoints
  • · Indoor gateways
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Agriculture

Long-range soil, weather, and leak nodes plus outdoor gateways. No new field cabling.

Long-range, low-power end nodes and outdoor gateways. Enclosure UV and seal choices sit in the same review as the radio.

Typical hardware

  • · Outdoor sensor nodes
  • · Pole-mount gateways
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Public outdoor LoRaWAN gateway on a mast — example install, not a ParticlIO product
Public outdoor LoRaWAN gateway on a mast — example install, not a ParticlIO product
Finished industrial IoT devices with antennas on the assembly line
Finished industrial IoT devices with antennas on the assembly line

Industrial

Condition-monitoring LoRaWAN nodes and gateways that report into the stack you operate.

DIN / pole / enclosure options, RS-485 or sensor hooks on a shared radio base, and firmware that reports into the stack you operate.

Typical hardware

  • · Condition-monitoring nodes
  • · Industrial gateways
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Related applications

Shorter teasers — same product platforms, linked to the closest deep dive. No separate industry URLs.

Environmental monitoring

Outdoor and indoor multi-sensor nodes on a measured multi-year radio budget. For long-range field deployments, see our agriculture LoRaWAN deep dive; for the hardware base, start from the sensor-node platform.

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Asset tracking

Track-and-sense SKUs share the same LoRaWAN sensor-node base as industrial monitoring. We shorten the path with sleep/wake and mechanical abuse tests before volume — not a separate product line page.

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Retail & workplace

Comfort sensing and life-safety SKUs for offices and retail share the IAQ and fire-alarm platforms. Read the smart-building IAQ page for the full GEO deep dive; here we only flag the product path.

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Hardware those environments actually run

LoRaWAN product families — not a stock industry collage, and not a factory tour.

Functional test of wireless fire and life-safety hardware
Functional test of wireless fire and life-safety hardware

Life safety

Smoke, CO, heat — hardware a channel can brand

Battery LoRaWAN detectors with marks scoped per SKU and market. Start from a reference unit, then CMF, pack-out, and payload.

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Buildings

IAQ that a BMS can parse

CO₂, VOC, temperature, humidity in a documented LoRaWAN uplink. Ceiling or wall housing designed to be tooled.

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Public commercial LoRaWAN sensor family — indoor, industrial, and modular nodes
Edouard Grandjean / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · public example, not a ParticlIO product
Ceiling and wall housings for indoor air-quality sensors
Ceiling and wall housings for indoor air-quality sensors
Public outdoor LoRaWAN weather and climate sensing station
Ulm digitale agenda / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · public install, not a ParticlIO product
Compact sensor-node board on the inspection fixture
Compact sensor-node board on the inspection fixture

Field nodes

Battery-first LoRaWAN sensors on a shared radio base

Sleep current and wake strategy are designed and measured. Outdoor gaskets sit in the same review as the antenna.

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Edge

Indoor and outdoor gateways, one RF family

Band, backhaul, and enclosure variants. You run the LoRaWAN network server.

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Public outdoor LoRaWAN gateway on a mast
Chrismantor / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · public install, not a ParticlIO product
Gateways and sensors on a burn-in rack
Gateways and sensors on a burn-in rack

The product lines behind those environments

Sensor node, fire, IAQ, gateway, and an IoT software layer. Start here when you do not want a blank schematic.

Field hardware we have actually built around

Anonymous project notes — problem, what we did, what the partner kept. No customer names.

CNC enclosure cut for an outdoor sensor node

Outdoor node — enclosure vs antenna

Problem. An outdoor environmental node needed IP-rated housing. The first ID concept boxed the antenna and killed range.

What we did. Electronics and industrial design sat in one review: antenna keep-out, gasket, and wall thickness. 3D print for feel, CNC for RF and fit, then mold-ready CAD.

What they kept. A housing that still meets the radio budget. The partner owns the CAD, keep-out drawing, and DFM notes.

Small-batch SMT of a custom sensor node

Custom sensor board — prove it before a panel

Problem. A facility node needed extra I/O and a different battery than the reference. The team did not want to buy a steel tool on an unproven layout.

What we did. Schematic and layout with RF and battery isolation on pass one. Automated DFM, then a small SMT run and bring-up report.

What they kept. Working prototypes and a file set (Gerbers, BOM, pick-and-place) ready for pilot — without a second vendor re-learning the board.

Board inspection during multi-band firmware bring-up

One family, three regional bands

Problem. The same end-node family had to join EU868, US915, and AS923 networks with one payload map.

What we did. Firmware variants on a shared radio stage: join, ADR, and documented uplink fields. Current draw measured against the battery budget.

What they kept. Band SKUs the partner flashes and points at their own network server. Payload notes stay with them.

Functional test of wireless fire and life-safety hardware

Smoke / CO hardware for a channel brand

Problem. A life-safety reseller needed their name on a battery LoRaWAN smoke/CO device, with CE and EN 14604 scoped for the market — not a generic box.

What we did. Started from the fire-alarm product line. Brand, CMF, pack-out, and alarm payload mapped to their monitoring stack. Marks planned per SKU, not as a company stamp.

What they kept. Pilot units under their brand, plus a certification plan they can take to the next market.

Ceiling housings for indoor air-quality LoRaWAN sensors

Ceiling IAQ that a BMS can actually parse

Problem. A building team had wireless CO₂ / VOC sensors that joined a network but arrived as undocumented bytes.

What we did. IAQ platform firmware with a published uplink map (CO₂, VOC, temperature, humidity, status) and configurable intervals. Ceiling housing and CMF for commercial interiors.

What they kept. Devices the partner points at their LNS and BMS. They own the application layer; we own getting the hardware and payload right.

Indoor and outdoor LoRaWAN gateways on a burn-in rack

Indoor and outdoor gateway, same RF base

Problem. A campus rollout needed Ethernet indoor units and a pole-mount outdoor unit on the same band plan.

What we did. Shared concentrator and backhaul options; two enclosures and antenna kits. Onboarding notes for the LNS they already run.

What they kept. One radio family, two install SKUs, documentation they keep. We do not operate the network.

How engagement fits together

Services, Process, and Why ParticlIO — then Contact Us so an engineer can read your brief.

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Services

IoT hardware design and manufacturing — PCB, firmware, enclosure, and assembly in one flow.

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Process

How a project runs from NDA and architecture through pilot and production.

Process
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Why ParticlIO

One team for custom hardware LoRaWAN — design-house depth with manufacturing follow-through.

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Contact Us

Tell us about your custom hardware program. An engineer will read it.

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Building for one of these?

Tell us the environment and the constraints. We'll tell you the engineering path.