Working public evidence · staged roadmap
Working public pilot
Sanitized Ashford telemetry is available without exposing raw private infrastructure.
Local first
Collection, dashboards and essential alerts are intended to work locally.
Evidence before claims
No public coverage, certified accuracy, lifetime or uptime promise is currently made.
3ntSensorNET
Distributed sensing and telemetry infrastructure for facilities, infrastructure, environmental monitoring and field operations. The Ashford pilot exposes sanitized evidence without exposing raw private infrastructure.
Target architecture
From a physical signal to a controlled operational view.
Measurement quality, local transport, storage, observability, recovery and privacy are treated as one infrastructure system.
Sensor nodesEnvironmental, power and site-condition signals.
Site gatewayLocal collection, validation and buffering.
3ntCommCoreLoRa, MQTT and local transport.
Regional nodeNormalization, storage and alert processing.
Local dashboardsPrivate operational awareness and maintenance.
Controlled exportSanitised reports and approved federation.
Live demonstrator
See the public telemetry demonstrator.
The live Ashford pilot has moved to its own demonstrator page. It shows sanitized operational telemetry without exposing private raw data.
Development roadmap
Five phases, each with an evidence gate.
Target windows are planning ranges rather than launch commitments. Progress depends on measured technical and operational results.
Completed
100%
Foundation and decision package
- Approve the 3ntSensorNET product direction and first pilot boundary
- Select sensor classes, node, gateway, enclosure and power candidates
- Define calibration, sampling, retention and data-quality rules
- Document local ownership, privacy and controlled-export boundaries
- Map 3ntCommCore and Regional Server integration
- Write laboratory acceptance tests and rollback procedure
Decision gate: Approved laboratory architecture, sensor shortlist, data model, privacy boundary and evidence plan.
In progress
80%
Private site laboratory
- Deploy temperature, humidity, power and air-quality sensors
- Run local collection, normalization and MQTT transport
- Test offline buffering, reconnect and power recovery
- Build local dashboards, alerts and health checks
- Measure calibration drift, missing data and sensor replacement
- Create backups, rebuild instructions and maintenance records
Decision gate: Repeatable local telemetry, known calibration behaviour, predictable recovery and no uncontrolled external data flow.
Controlled site-partner pilot
- Operate at a known farm, facility or resilience site
- Publish supported sensor and installation notes
- Expose only sanitised operational summaries where required
- Test alert thresholds, maintenance workflow and operator response
- Measure radio reliability, battery life and support burden
- Record pilot value, limitations and a go/no-go decision
Decision gate: Representative field evidence, documented limitations and an approved use-case decision.
Resilient multi-zone 3ntSensorNET
- Add zones and sensor types only where evidence justifies them
- Provide redundant gateways and 3ntCommCore paths
- Introduce field-replaceable nodes and maintenance scheduling
- Archive quality, calibration and incident evidence
- Integrate Regional Telemetry Node and controlled federation
- Define recovery exercises and service-level options
Decision gate: Funded operational ownership, tested recovery, stable field performance and approved production terms.
Productisation and regional federation
- Managed environmental and site-condition monitoring
- Private dashboards, alerts and controlled reporting
- Standard node, gateway and installation packages
- Regional telemetry federation with local data ownership
- 3ntTrackNET, 3ntRTKNet and 3ntCommCore integration
- Commercial packaging based on measured demand and support capacity
Decision gate: Expansion follows measured demand, data quality, operational capacity and privacy approval.
Quality, resilience and privacy
A sensing network must explain what it measured and what it missed.
Measure continuously
- Sensor and gateway uptime
- Sampling gaps and delayed observations
- Calibration, drift and replacement history
- Battery, power and radio-link health
- Alert delivery and operator acknowledgement
- Configuration and firmware changes
Protect local data
- Local storage and processing by default
- Least-privilege access to dashboards and APIs
- No public raw sensor entities or internal addresses
- Controlled retention and sanitised export
- Credential rotation and revocation
- Documented data ownership and deletion
Engineer field nodes
- Suitable enclosure and environmental rating
- Battery, solar and mains-power options
- Serviceable connectors and replaceable sensors
- Radio and antenna placement evidence
- Maintenance and calibration procedures
- Safe installation and rollback
Candidate use cases
- Farms, storage and growing environments
- Facilities and building-health monitoring
- Power, water and equipment-condition awareness
- Weather and local environmental observations
- Resilience sites and controlled reporting
Current boundary
3ntSensorNET remains in staged development. The separate Live demonstrator shows sanitized Ashford pilot telemetry; it does not establish certified measurement accuracy, a defined device lifetime, coverage or an SLA.
Pilot collaboration
Help test the right sensing problem.
3nt is interested in technical and site partners for controlled environmental, facility and operational telemetry validation.
Contact the team