Blog

Field notes on maintenance, asset tracking, lone-worker safety and monitoring remote sites.

Ski areasNovember 14, 2026

Snowmaking nights on record: weather at every elevation, and a season to plan from

What a ski area's operations team gains from weather measured at the summit, mid-mountain and base, a record of every snowmaking night, and a season's history to plan the next one from.

MonitoringNovember 10, 2026

Is that slope moving? Continuous RTK GNSS monitoring, explained

Why highwalls, slopes, embankments and structures need continuous monitoring, what RTK GNSS gives you, how to tell real movement from noise, and what GNSS cannot see.

SecurityNovember 7, 2026

Who came through the gate? Vehicle recognition for secure areas

An example of vehicle recognition at your own gates: trained models on the premises find the vehicle, and only the frames that matter go to the cloud to read the plate. For access control, not mass surveillance.

ConnectivityNovember 4, 2026

Starlink updates itself. Do you know when?

Starlink installs software on its own schedule and the dish reboots to do it. Why a remote operation wants a record of every update, reboot and outage, and what else to watch.

HardwareOctober 28, 2026

LoRaWAN sensors, from the field to the cloud

What LoRaWAN is, why it suits a large site, how a gateway and sensors fit together, and what we run on it today.

OperationsOctober 14, 2026

How digital work orders replace paper-based maintenance tracking

What paper costs a maintenance team in practice, what a work order looks like in Powoflow from request to sign-off, and what it does not do yet.