[Joeri]

An app for installing and maintaining mixed fleets of lora/sigfox/... IoT sensors.

When installing these at scale in existing buildings you have to be able to send out local workforce to properly install and activate thousands of sensors, as well as maintain them afterwards, without prior training. It’s one of those things that sounds easy on the surface but is riddled with complexity, like how to register which sensor is installed where in a foolproof way, or how to easily locate faulty sensors for replacement.

[hackerews]

What tools are used to maintain these now?

[mlevental]

what's the market for this? how many people are installing iot fleets?

[Joeri]

The price of sensors is dropping and starting to reach the point where cost of retrofitting buildings is outweighed by savings in more efficient building use. That trend is going to cause most buildings to be retrofitted. You can do things like occupancy detection of every workplace which are very valuable to building managers.

There’s plenty of competition in people selling the sensors, providing connectivity, or doing data analysis, but I’m not aware of any solutions for installing the damn things which aren’t tied to a vendor.