Monnit European Quarterly: The Benefits of a Smart Sensing Platform

Monnit European Quarterly - Q1 2025

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What a Multifaceted Smart Sensing Platform Can Do

Monnit is mainly known worldwide for its flagship line of ALTA^® Wireless Sensors. It makes sense, considering we offer 80+ different ALTA Sensors. However, thousands of customers have also popularised our Wi-Fi and Power over Ethernet (PoE) sensors through our always-evolving smart sensing or Internet of Things (IoT) platform.

Leverage a multifaceted smart sensing platform with multiple IoT sensor and connectivity options to achieve several key advantages:

Enhanced Data Collection & Insights—Integrating diverse sensors enables comprehensive and customisable real-time monitoring, improving decision-making and operational efficiency.
Scalability & Flexibility—Quickly adapt to evolving needs by incorporating various sensors and connectivity technologies, ensuring long-term viability.
Increased Reliability & Redundancy—Multiple connectivity options (e.g., Wi-Fi, wireless, PoE, cellular) ensure customisation and continuous data transmission, reducing downtime and disruptions.
Optimised Performance & Automation—Sensor data turned advanced analytics, and AI-driven insights improve predictive maintenance, energy efficiency, and workflow automation.
Regulatory Compliance & Sustainability—Track environmental impact, ensure regulation compliance, and enhance sustainability efforts across facilities and sites.
Cost Efficiency & ROI—Reduces operational costs through energy efficiency, predictive maintenance, and process optimisation, leading to a more substantial ROI.
Seamless Integration with Existing Systems—Integrate with industrial IoT, cloud services, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems for streamlined operations.

With diverse applications or use cases to monitor in nearly every industry, organisations that deploy a versatile platform of IoT sensors and connectivity gain a competitive edge through improved efficiency, adaptability, and sustainability.

Continue below to learn about our new Wi-Fi Sensors, compare our sensor types, and review the many applications we serve.

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A Next™-Gen Suite of Wi-Fi Sensors

For more than 11 years, our first generation of Wi-Fi sensors reliably served our customers across many industries. As Wi-Fi technology has advanced so far, we have created an entirely new generation of Wi-Fi sensors rather than continuing to update the first ones.

Eight Next™ Wi-Fi Sensors recently launched in the European market so that you can experience their benefits. The sensors feature a more extensive Wi-Fi range and stronger signal to send sensor data farther and through more walls within your Wi-Fi network.

Here's the Next Wi-Fi Sensor lineup:

Next Wi-Fi Temperature Sensor—Monitor area or object temperature with up to a 100-ft. lead (-40°C to 125°C (-40°F to 257°F)) or without (-7°C to +60°C (+20°F to +140°F)).
Next Wi-Fi Low Temperature Sensor—Measure temperatures from -325°F to 32°F (-200°C to 0°C) in ultralow temperature (ULT) freezers and cold chain processes with a 3-foot lead.
Next Wi-Fi Humidity Sensor—Track relative humidity (RH) between 80 to 100% and temperature with or without a lead on a preset time interval or sensor Heartbeat.
Next Wi-Fi Water Detect Sensor—Detect the presence or absence of water in many use cases, such as leak detection and water heater monitoring with a bare-wire lead.
Next Wi-Fi Water Detect Plus Sensor—Mount this sensor's stainless steel probe with two contacts on a wall or surface to detect the presence or absence of water.
Next Wi-Fi Dry Contact Sensor—Detect contact between two wired contact points, an external mechanical switch, or a contact plate with bare wire lead cable terminations.
Next Wi-Fi Open-Closed Sensor—Get alerts when a door, window, lid, or cabinet opens or closes using a mountable lead with a switch and trigger magnet.
Next Wi-Fi Motion Sensor—Monitor motion and occupancy by people or animals. This passive infrared (PIR) sensor has an adjustable monitoring range of 9, 12, or 15 feet.

Key Next Wi-Fi Sensor Features

Protocol—802.11 b
Battery-Powered—1.5V AA batteries (included)
Range—125 feet through five walls or 500-ft line of sight
Frequency Band—2.412 - 2.484 GHz
Security—Open, WPA, WPA2, and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)-128 Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) for sensor data messages)
Wi-Fi Setup—Bluetooth via a Monnit-provided app
Network Settings—Auto DHCP/DNS or Static
Data Rate—Auto configures to the best rate for maximum range

We're excited to help you enjoy the powerful capabilities of our new Next Wi-Fi Sensors.

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Sensor Spotlight

Select the Right Sensors and Connectivity for the Job

Successful leaders and managers don’t just react well to operational trends, challenges, or issues. They’re proactive and predictive, using sensor data to monitor business-critical conditions, processes, machines, and equipment. This is how they prevent problems that can threaten productivity and operations.

Data from IoT sensors can benefit practically every organisation in any industry. Two factors drive success in IoT monitoring—selecting the right sensors and connectivity for your application or use case.

Considering those two primary factors, we recommend you answer these questions before you deploy a monitoring solution or sensor network.

Are you monitoring in a commercial/enterprise or rugged/industrial environment?
Does the installation involve a local or remote site or mobile assets?
What type of things are you monitoring?

Here is an industry application/use case example with answers to these questions.

A food processing plant needs to monitor local operations, processes, conditions, machines, and equipment in multiple environments—front office (enterprise), production (industrial), and warehouse (industrial).
- They plan to use a combination of ALTA Enterprise Wireless and Next Wi-Fi Sensors across the facilities to monitor HVAC Systems, temperature, humidity, air quality, access, plumbing leaks and water intrusion, and motion and occupancy.
- In production, warehousing, and cold storage, the food processor will use ALTA Industrial Wireless Sensors to monitor ambient, low, and high temperatures in areas, coolers, freezers, and ovens; humidity, water detection, and machine performance with vibration, current, and voltage meters.

This is just one of the seemingly endless industry applications where a broad selection of sensors and flexible connectivity options can make all the difference.

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