Water Trough Level

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

The OGLAS Water Trough Level sensor is purpose-built for stock water — the troughs scattered across paddocks where animals depend on a working float valve and a charged pump. If a trough goes dry, you find out before the animals do.

What it does

Reports level periodically — default interval an hour; configurable down to minutes when you’re commissioning, back up to once a day when you trust it.
Raises an immediate out-of-water alert when level drops below a configured threshold — independent of the reporting interval. This is the message that matters and it doesn’t wait.
Includes GPS coordinates with each reading, so the hub knows which trough this is without you having to track node-id-to-paddock mappings by hand.
Reports battery voltage so you can replace the battery on schedule, not on failure.

Why GPS

A property with twenty troughs is a labelling nightmare. Without GPS:

Electric Fence Active

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

An electric fence that’s stopped pulsing is just a fence — and animals work that out fast. The OGLAS Electric Fence Active sensor confirms your fence is live, on a schedule you set, and raises the bell the moment it isn’t.

What it does

Detects fence pulses — non-contact pickup (capacitive coupling to the fence wire), no high-voltage wiring into the device.
Reports state periodically — default interval is 5 minutes; configurable.
Reports immediately on state change — fence drops from active to inactive (or comes back), the device fires off a message right away rather than waiting for the next interval. This is the alert that matters.
Tracks pulse rate — a healthy charger has a known cadence. Drift from the expected rate (broken wire shorting to ground, low-battery charger) shows up before the fence dies completely.

Common failure modes it catches

Animal grounding — a sheep tangled in the wire pulls the fence voltage down. Pulses still happen but at much lower amplitude. Worth alerting.
Broken wire — fence is “on” at the charger but doesn’t reach the far end. Catch this by deploying multiple Electric Fence sensors at known points along the line.
Charger fault / dead battery — fence is silent. Most-common failure mode and the one that costs the most.
Vegetation grow-in — gradually loading the fence; the pulse-rate trend will show it before it fails.

Hardware

Battery-powered sensor with a non-contact pickup. The pickup is a small antenna held a few centimetres from the live wire — induced voltage from each fence pulse triggers a counter inside the device. No galvanic connection to the fence, so no risk of energiser pulses entering the electronics.

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Water Trough Level

What it does

Why GPS

Electric Fence Active

What it does

Common failure modes it catches

Hardware