Recently I was researching into home automation systems. What I wanted to do was have temperature sensors in different locations around my house and integrate this environmental information into one place, where the data could be logged and monitored. What I discovered was open source software called Home Assistant. I had a spare Raspberry Pi […]
uRADMonitor SMOGGIE
The uRADMonitor network reached 1k units worldwide back in September 2018 during the ASIC conference in Oakland US. It was becoming clear that Air Quality monitoring is a major concern with various implementations happening thanks to recent advancements in sensors and IOT technologies. Our portfolio of products already covered multiple scenarios both in terms of […]
Impressions on ICEEFest 2019 / Upgrade 100
ICEEFest 2019, under a new branding “Upgrade 100”, was a focus point for 200 speakers and 4k attendees, at Digiplex Cinema Baneasa, June 13-14, in Bucharest. There were several tracks on HealthCare, Democracy, Fintech, Communication, Marketing, Branding, Content Creation, Video Gaming, AI and Robotics, Automation, Startups and Investments, but absolutely all of them under the […]
Simcom-EBV Workshop on LTE-M solutions
I know this title might be challenging for some of you. And it’s not even the full title of the event, since the workshop also included the Orange LTE-M and Live Objects presentations. Allow me to clarify, Simcom is a communications hardware manufacturer (modems, GPS modules), EBV Electronik is a parts distributor, Orange is a […]
Viva Technology 2019 Paris
For the third time at Viva Technology in Paris 16-18 May, following the 2016 and the 2018 editions, this was our second participation as an exhibitor – at the Orange stand, as part of the international Orange Fab program. The first day was intense, right from the start with the gates open for over 100k […]
Innoteque 2019
ImpactHub hosted the second edition of Innoteque where representatives from the United States of America, Austria, and Israel shared their perspectives and experience in what makes a successful innovation ecosystem. Key players from the government, accelerators, capital, academic institutions, the private sector and public institutions where brought together to discuss ways of supporting and accelerating […]
Capability-Driven Defence Research and Innovation Conference
The conference took place in Bucharest, on 26 March 2019 at Palace of the Parliament. High-level representatives from Ministries of Defence, defence research centres, industry and the European institutions discussed the present and future opportunities as well as challenges of the Capability Driven Defence Research. The event showcased the new prioritisation instruments for defence research, […]
The 8th Model A3
8th iteration or HW108 actually means this is the eighth revision of the A3 being produced. It all started with HW100 back in 2016. Each new version brought important updates part of the normal product lifecycle. The latest one answers a tough question on the maintenance effort (both hardware and software). uRADMonitor A3 HW108 motherboard […]
GigabitDCx Semi-finals
The GigabitDCx challenge, launched back in October 2018 in Washington, DC, addressed some of the cities most complicated problems: traffic and changing climate. The call invited developers and entrepreneurs to come with innovative applications and services leveraging advanced networking technologies. uRADMonitor joined. After attracting more than 100 developers and entrepreneurs within 21 submissions, Mayor Muriel […]
Thermal inversion in Slovenia
Slovenia has more than 65% of the areas covered by forest, so the country is theoretically independent on the import of gas and liquid fuels! For this reason, the state has massively subsidized the transition from oil or coal heating to wood biomass! When replacing the heating system, we could receive a 25% subsidy when […]
PatriotFest 2018
PatriotFest is a Romanian national innovation competition, focused on evaluating projects that have advanced at least to the prototype stage. The competition aims at encouraging innovative talent in the field of national security.“The most important resource of a country is the human resource. And the human resource requires security. At the same time, the competitiveness […]
uRad metrics in home automation with Domoticz
Radu Motisan has a dream to give the world a view on what is happening in your surrounding environment and how this could influence your health. In my own professional life, I’m involved as a consultant in IOT data gathering and processing and I design and deploy solutions for organizations with whom I share that mutual interest: […]
Orange FAB Demo day
When uRADMonitor was selected in the OrangeFAB program, we had little idea of the implications. Bringing together professionals and resources to support our work, the program has come to have a massive impact on the uRADMonitor development. What an exciting adventure this was! But enough big words, let’s see a quick summary. Alba Iulia SmartCity […]
Transforming a Hobby into a Full-Scale Product
I was in the Bay Area for the ASIC Conference where uRADMonitor participated as an exhibitor. This came just a few days after the Environmental Monitoring Hack Chat that I hosted thanks to the kind invitation of Sophi Kravitz from Hackaday. Talking with Sophi I told her about my upcoming trip to the States and […]
Air Sensors International Conference, Oakland USA
uRADMonitor participated as an exhibitor to the ASIC 2018 conference in Oakland, California. The event brought together government agencies, researchers, industry members, community scientists and educators to facilitate research on the scientific, engineering, health, social and economic aspects of gaseous and particulate atmospheric pollutants. And it successfully achieved its mission. Dense participation to the ASIC […]
National Finalist at CESAWARDS 2018
You could say this is becoming a tradition already, as we’re once again in the spotlight at this year’s Central European Startup Awards. Last year we’ve went as far as National Winner, while in 2015 we were just among the nominees. Magnasci SRL, the company behind uRADMonitor is now “Best IOT Startup”, while its founder, […]
Producing the uRADMonitor A3
The uRADMonitor A3 was first anounced two years ago. During all this time, the product has seen multiple iterations that continuosly improved the hardware. The high number of sensors and the robust design were appreciated among our users. The A3 spread at a fast pace, quickly becoming one of the uRADMonitor most successful designs. To […]
Viva Technology 2018 Paris
uRADMonitor participated for the second time at the Viva Technology international fair, during May 24-27 in Paris. This time as an exhibitor, an opportunity facilitated by Orange Romania, through their Orange FAB program. Vivatech uRADMonitor quick vlog The event anticipated a massive participation, and the real numbers exceeded the initial expectiations. With over 100k participants […]
April 26, 1986
On the morning of 28 April, workers coming to the job at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in Sweden, registered high level of radiation detected on their bodies. The levels were not high enough to harm humans but the plant was shutdown for investigations. Workers coming to work at the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant in […]
uRADMonitor A3 with GSM connectivity
While a relatively new design, the uRADMonitor A3 accounts for a quarter of the total uRADMonitor network already. Introduced in 2016, it was supported by Orange in several SmartCity implementations. With an impressive number of sensors, the A3 produces highly relevant data to describe air quality in the place where it is installed. There are […]
SmartCity Debate Iasi 2018
The SmartCity Debate 2018-2020 took place in Iasi today bringing together hundreds of participants. There were representatives of city halls from all across the country and key players from several companies. The debate was organised around 5 panels, concerning urban mobility, smart utilities, cybersecurity, financing and startup demos. SmartCity Debate Iasi 2018 Participants uRADMonitor was […]
OrangeFAB Kick-Off in Iași
Iași was the recent host of a series of high tech events, aiming to contribute to the digital transformation of this important romanian cultural center. Continuing on their proven commitment to support genuine innovation, Orange added Iași as the next city to run the OrangeFAB acceleration program. Vlad Sorici, OrangeFAB Program Manager, presenting the […]
The world’s first mobile phone with air quality sensors
Caterpillar Inc., a world-renowned manufacturer of construction machinery and mining equipment, recently anounced the S61 – a smartphone equiped with a VOC sensor (volatile organic compounds), making it the world’s first mobile phone capable of detecting toxic chemicals in the air. S61 Smartphone Air quality history data The smartphone was presented at the Mobile World […]
Metal Oxide VOC Sensors
VOC sensors are nothing new to this project, we’ve used them intensively in the uRADMonitor hardware units. Back in 2015, the Bosch BME680 was integrated into the uRADMonitor model D, followed by the model A3 using the same excellent sensor. Now the uRADMonitor AIR, our first wearable, relies on the BME680 again for a low […]
uRADMonitor at #MWC18
For the second time at the Mobile World Congress, uRADMonitor now participated as a finalist of the LoRaWAN™ Challenge. The event took place on Tuesday, the second day of the MWC week. uRADMonitor was presented in front of an audience of IoT professionals including representatives from the LoRa Alliance™, Semtech, STMicroelectronics, EBV Elektronik and others. […]
IOT/WT Innovation World Cup
Munich, 30th of January 2018 From a total of 940 submissions, only 28 young companies and techpreneurs were invited as finalists at the WT|Wearable Technologies Conference 2018 EUROPE (#WTEU18). Their extremely innovative and groundbreaking products were presented on stage at the pitch and award ceremony of the IOT / WT Innovation World Cup® 2018. Radu […]
2017 Retrospective
Although months and years are just one of our many conventions, the end of the year is a great moment to look back and do a balance of the recent achievements, like I did before. For a strong innovation based company like Magnasci, it was a natural direction to keep the R&D pedal pushed all […]
SmartCity Implementation in Slovenia
Our uRADMonitor INDUSTRIAL was selected for a Pilot smartcity implementation in Kranj, Slovenia, to complement with Air Quality Monitoring the smart lighting solution implemented by EcoSunLights. Five units with LoRaWAN connectivity where deployed, each in a protective rainproof enclosure with side air vents and a top metallic sun shield: The enclosure holds the uRADMonitor INDUSTRIAL […]
Innovation World Cup 2017/18 Finalist
From new means of connecting developed hardware to ground-breaking technologies, the evolving IoT innovations are contributing to solving thousands of issues that people face in their everyday lives. And this year the IOT/WT Innovation World Cup® 2017/18 dived into these opportunities. Your solution is amongst the best 3 percent uRADMonitor is a Finalist at the […]
uRADMonitor INDUSTRIAL
uRADMonitor INDUSTRIAL is the fifth uRADMonitor hardware product designed in 2017 for IOT Air Quality Monitoring with applications in smart homes, smart cities and industry. It is a general purpose, high performance Air Quality detector for Particulate Matter (PM2.5 and PM10), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Ozone (O3), Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) and Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2). The sensor […]
The First Wearable
After developing several hardware products and running two crowdfunding campaigns, some lessons were learned. I’d like to show you how these conclusions are driving the current development, in an effort of bringing the uRADMonitor solution even closer to its purpose. Community feedback getting into production is not new for uRADMonitor, and it was used in […]
Crowdfunding campaign “Uniform data – uniform rights”
The entire uRADMonitor effort fights to solve pollution at global level. We are grateful for all the community support we received so far: this includes our first successfully funded indieGogo campaign and all the uRADMonitor adopters that helped to create a global uRADMonitor network 800 units in size. Last but not least, visionary people involved […]
Top 5 Finalist in Hackaday Prize 2017
For the past few months uRADMonitor has been competing in Earth’s greatest hardware competition. The Hackaday Prize is a challenge to Build Something That Matters, make an impact, and create the hardware that will transform the world. One step at a time, we advanced in the competition and we are now one of the ten […]
OrangeFAB
Orange Romania announced the first six startups that entered Orange Fab, the corporate acceleration program. The program proposes several directions to help the development of the participants like co-innovation, access to Orange technologies, product validation or distribution. This effort can also result in added value for the Orange portfolio of products and services. Vlad Sorici […]
National Winner at CESAWARDS 2017
uRADMonitor is a National Winner and also became a Regional Finalist at the Central European Startup Awards 2017. This surely means some serious progress since the last time we ended up as nominees. uRADMonitor received two Winner titles, one for the Best IoT Startup track as a result of our intense work in this field, […]
#BalCCon2k17
The #Balccon2k17 brought together IT security professionals and enthusiasts from all around the world. For the fifth year in Novi Sad, this was one of the biggest security events in Southest Europe. Dubbed “U CNT CTRL ME”, the event presented its philosophy right from the start: the use of knowledge to break barriers. Like last […]
A tutorial: How to compile KIT1 firmware on a Windows machine
This tutorial shows how you can compile and flash the KIT1 firmware on Windows (at least Windows 2000) without going through all the hassle of installing and using Cygwin and Eclipse. As an additional problem, there are several incompatible “make” implementations for Windows, so I decided to avoid “make” too. The AVR8 GNU toolchain does […]
Finalist in Hackaday Prize 2017
uRADMonitor participated in the first edition of the Hackaday Prize, in 2014. Although it was just starting, the global network managed to reach the semifinals in a competition that aimed at “connected things”. Dave Jones blogged about it, and suddenly the entire World knew about uRADMonitor: One year later, with the Portable Environmental Monitor or […]
Uradmonitor Model A3 Firmware Upgrade
Pre-reading The firmware upgrade is rather simple and straight forward; however, I would strongly recommend reviewing the two resources below and watching Dave Jones from EEVBlog video tutorial “Adventures in AVR ISP Programming” as this displays some gotcha that can be avoided due to Dave has documented them very well. Model A firmware upgrade guide Firmware […]
KIT1 “Community Edition”
For some time now, the community helped improving the KIT1 design spawning many custom variants. This proves the utility of the KIT1 as an IOT device: a tiny little gadget, that can talk to the internet on itself, using little power, equipped with a multitude of sensors to sense the world around us. All these […]
The Devil is in the details
For some time now I’ve been swamped with work, among other things working to finalise one of the hardware products I designed, the uRADMonitor D. This is the very one that goes back to 2015, and had a very quick start with the prototype being ready in only a month. From BETA to the Final […]
Site v5.0
The continuous improvements to the uRADMonitor network are demanding more changes both to the units themselves but also to the central infrastructure. While we saw considerable progress on the hardware side with the model D and the new model A3 and model CITY units, the server was also been in the attention with important new […]
Ciudanovita, the people and the uranium
Every gain comes at a price, and so the comfort of technology claims its cost at some other end. For nuclear energy – what it gives is known, modern living conditions, heating, illumination, transportation and all in one the civilised world as we know it. Yet what it takes sometimes remains in the shade, like […]
CeBIT 2017 Hannover
One of the World’s greatest technology fairs ended last week, leaving a deep impact in the minds of the participants. It became obvious that we are heading towards some major milestones in IC&T. So the message was about the current trends that are beginning to take shape, redefining the close future. A few of these […]
Firmware upgrade for the A3 with Wifi
The uRADMonitor model A, the KIT1 and the model A3 with Ethernet have all taken advantage of various scripts and tools developed by the community which allowed direct data access over their LAN connection. You can see a few of these below: uRADMonitor weather station integration Local stats graph with uRADMonitor RRD Tool graphing Include […]
KIT1 screenless variant
Technically this is still a KIT1, and runs KIT1 firmware, but it becomes very similar to a model A unit, as it does everything a model A does. LZ1JER built one for his new weather station based on a Raspberry Pi, which is an impressive construction already: As you can see, this KIT1 variant is […]
Alba Iulia becomes the first Romanian #SmartCity
Alba Iulia is a city located on the Mureş River in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. Its history goes back to ancient Roman times (106 to 275AD), when the existing settlement was known as Apulum. The following years bear mark of glorious historical deeds, making this city a symbol for the Romanian nation. Michael the Brave […]
Chivas The Venture Semifinals
uRADMonitor entered The Venture, a global competition created by Chivas, that offers 1 million dollars to create something that has a major social impact. This is the third edition, and the rumour has it that this year the competitiveness has increased considerably. We were happy to receive the invitation to the semifinals, together with other […]
Innomatch ’16
The fourth edition of the Regional Innovation Fair took place in Timisoara, bringing together local and international guests for an intense day of presentations and networking focused on the innovation ecosystem. The organisers, Tehimpuls and ADR West provided an excellent environment for exchanging ideas and establishing new partnerships, in an elegant location. We were as […]
Digital Romania Forum Industry 4.0
Industry 4.0 or the fourth industrial revolution, is the current trend of automation and data exchange in manufacturing technologies, including cyber-physical systems, the Internet of things and cloud computing. In this context the Digital Romania Industry 4.0 International Forum took place on November 3rd at the Victoria Palace in Bucharest and brought together high level […]