Green Roofs: A New Niche Monitoring Opportunity

It’s certainly a new niche monitoring opportunity. Bourne, Mass.-based Onset, a supplier of data loggers and weather stations, has unveiled the HOBO Green Roof Monitoring System, a research-grade system for measuring the performance of green roofs.

Providing reliable performance in harsh rooftop conditions, the 15-channel system enables users to quickly and easily monitor green roof conditions, measure stormwater runoff, improve irrigation scheduling, and maintain healthy rooftop vegetation.

The system provides:

• 24/7 web-based access to data
• All the common green roof measurements: temperature, relative humidity, wind, soil moisture, light intensity, and rainfall
• Plug-and-play sensors that enable fast easy deployment
• Customizable data display for kiosks
• Trend logging, monitoring, and alarm notifications

The system, which clearly has more commercial opportunity than residential, includes a HOBO U30 GSM-cellular data logger with one-year service plan, smart sensors for measuring rainfall, soil moisture, soil temperature, solar radiation, air temperature/relative humidity, and wind speed and direction, as well as mounting brackets and a 6-watt solar panel. Optional mounting masts, tripods, graphing and analysis software, and additional sensors are also available.

How much recurring monthly revenue could integrators derive from a system like this?

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Green Roofs: A New Niche Monitoring Opportunity

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