Mesh Hub

The OGLAS Mesh Hub is for sites where a straight radio line from sensor to hub doesn’t exist. Instead of every device needing to reach the hub directly, devices (and dedicated repeaters) relay for each other — a reading hops node to node until it lands at the hub.

When you want mesh

• Broken line-of-sight — a hill, a steel shed, a tree line, or a fold in the ground sits between a sensor and the hub.
• Sprawling sites — the far corners are past the range of a single LoRa link, but there are devices in between to carry the signal.
• Resilience — if one path goes down, traffic finds another way through the mesh rather than a sensor simply going silent.

What it does

• Collects from the mesh — confirms readings and logs them locally, exactly like the LoRa Hub, but the messages arrive via one or more hops.
• Self-heals — nodes discover neighbours and re-route automatically as devices come and go or conditions change.
• Mixes sensors and repeaters — most OGLAS sensors can carry mesh traffic for their neighbours; add low-cost repeaters to bridge the gaps that have no sensor of their own.

Trade-offs, honestly

Mesh buys coverage at the cost of a little latency and power — each hop adds a small delay, and relaying nodes can’t sleep as deeply as a leaf sensor talking straight to a hub. For most sites that’s a fair trade for reaching the spots a single link can’t. If you can see the hub from everywhere, the LoRa Hub is simpler.

Pairs well with

• LoRa Hub — many sites run mostly direct LoRa with a mesh leg only for the hard-to-reach corner.
• Local and Cloud — the mesh delivers to the hub; from there the data flows on exactly the same way.
• A custom build — repeater placement and mesh tuning for a specific site is the kind of thing we work out on the ground.