Data on OGLAS — Off-Grid Local Alert System

Your data is your data

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The single biggest design decision in OGLAS is that your data never has to leave your site. The hub logs every sensor reading to local storage, and Local keeps the full record on your hardware. There is no OGLAS cloud account, no monthly fee, no “premium tier” that holds the last 90 days of your history hostage.

What this means in practice

No subscription. Buy the hardware, run it, done. There’s nothing to renew.
No vendor lock-in. Readings are stored in plain text and easily-parsed binary formats. If you want to move them to a different system in five years, you can. If we disappear in five years, you still have everything.
No third-party account. No login, no email-and-password to forget, no app store dependency.
No telemetry. The hub doesn’t phone home. Updates are pulled when you choose, not pushed at 3am.

What we mean by “local”

The hub writes to its own flash, an SD card, or a host you connect (USB, network share, NAS — your choice), and Local runs on your own SBC or laptop. If you want an off-site copy or a remote view, that’s the optional Cloud half — on your own server, your own terms. The decision of where the data goes is always yours.

Cloud — An Optional Private Copy, Off-Site

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Cloud is the optional last step in the pipeline. Everything works without it — your sensors report to your hubs, and Local gives you full analysis and ownership on site. Cloud adds one thing: a private copy of your data, off-site, for when you’re not standing in the shed.

It’s still your data. “Cloud” here means a copy you control, kept somewhere you can reach from anywhere — not a SaaS account that owns your readings and rents them back to you.

Local — Own and Analyse Your Data On Site

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Local is where your data becomes something you can actually use. It runs on hardware you already have on site — a small SBC tucked next to a hub, or a laptop or desktop you open when you want a proper look — and it turns the stream of sensor readings into dashboards, history, and answers.

The whole point: the data is yours, it stays local, and nothing has to leave the site for you to get full value from it. Cloud is an optional extra on top — Local is complete on its own.