Use-case first procurement

Start with the decision the sensor network must support.

A sensor specification should begin with the operational decision, required confidence, site constraints, climate exposure, and maintenance reality.

Smart cities and digital twins

Specify environmental networks as measurement architectures, not just product names. For CFD-facing use, separate wind truth, thermal exposure, radiation, rain, telemetry, and service assumptions.

Open the smart-city reference guide

Flood warning

Specify stage, rainfall, telemetry latency, backup power, enclosure rating, mounting survivability, debris risk, and alert thresholds.

Urban heat

Specify radiation shielding, ventilation, siting, surface context, metadata, calibration, and comparability across neighborhoods.

Road weather

Specify pavement temperature, precipitation type, wind exposure, winterization, maintenance access, and integration with operations dashboards.

Mesonet monitoring

Specify station spacing, representativeness, WMO-aligned siting principles, metadata, QA/QC, and long-term calibration traceability.

Groundwater

Specify pressure transducer range, venting, drift, barometric compensation, cable sealing, well compatibility, and retrieval procedures.

Water quality

Specify fouling control, cleaning intervals, calibration standards, sample matrix, temperature compensation, and acceptance testing.