Every house already has a controller running the fans. The losses that hurt are the ones where that controller was the thing that failed, or the power went and took the alarm with it. Genesis measures the house on its own probes, its own battery and its own cellular link, so the alarm reaching a phone at three in the morning does not share a failure mode with the equipment it is watching.
The hardware is the same in all three cases. House count and production model change the sensor mix, not the controller.
The house already has a climate controller, and the question is what happens when it is the controller that fails. An independent set of readings and an alarm that does not depend on it, or on house power, is the cheapest insurance on the site.
Tolerances are tight, rooms are numerous, and the record of what the environment did is part of the product. Per-room readings kept at full resolution answer that months later, without a clipboard on a hook by the door.
You sell ventilation, feeding, weighing or climate equipment, and buyers now ask what the machine reports and whether there is an app. A controller that fits the panel you already ship is a shorter route than building firmware and cloud teams.
Any instrument speaking RS485 Modbus RTU, analogue, digital, I2C, 1-Wire, SDI-12 or UART connects to any of the four ports, with the protocol assigned from the dashboard rather than fixed at the factory. Four ports on the Genesis industrial IoT controller, one on Genesis Lite where a location has a single point worth measuring.
SHT30-class and RS485 probes placed down the length of the house, so a gradient shows up as a gradient rather than as one number from wherever the sensor happens to hang.
Electrochemical NH3 and NDIR CO2 heads read over RS485 or an analogue output. Air quality moves slowly and then matters all at once, which is exactly the pattern a trend and a threshold catch.
Differential pressure transducers on negative-pressure ventilation. A pressure that stops responding is usually the first sign that an inlet or a fan stage has stopped doing what the controller thinks it is doing.
Pulse-output or Modbus flow meters on the drinker line. Daily water is the earliest and cheapest health indicator in the house, and it moves before anything visible does.
Mains presence, generator run state and fan or heater contactor status on digital inputs. Most of the events worth an alarm at three in the morning start here.
Relay and latching-relay outputs to sound a siren, trigger a dialler or open a ventilation flap, with the rule and its dwell held on the controller so it fires with the network down.
A chart nobody opens changes nothing at three in the morning. These are the parts a flock manager touches, and the reason the alarm arrives ahead of the loss.
One view per house: current readings by position, air quality, water use, power and equipment state. Built for a phone in a corridor rather than an office screen.
Minimum and maximum per sensor and per house, delivered by push notification and email, with acknowledgement recorded so the next person on the list knows whether anyone answered.
The controller runs on its own battery and its own cellular link. A power cut or a failed house controller does not take the alarm with it, which is the whole point of measuring independently.
Location is bound to the sensor rather than the controller, so one unit reaching two rooms keeps the two rooms apart in every chart and export, stamped at write time and never rewritten.
Full-resolution readings kept and exported to XLSX for welfare audits, retailer schemes and your own post-mortem on a bad flock. Numbers stay numbers so the spreadsheet still calculates.
The grower owns the hardware and grants visibility to the integrator, the service company or the vet. Device sharing does that without either party buying the hardware twice.
A house controller and the sensors it depends on share a power supply, a cabinet and a failure mode. Genesis is a second set of eyes with none of those in common: its own probes, its own battery, its own cellular link, and a threshold that fires whether or not anything else in the house is still running.
For the cost and timeline math behind choosing a full-stack platform over building infrastructure yourself, read the real cost of building on AWS IoT Core.
Any instrument speaking RS485 Modbus RTU, an analogue output, a digital or pulse signal, I2C, 1-Wire, SDI-12 or UART, and over fifty types are supported today. In a house that usually means temperature and humidity probes, an NH3 head, an NDIR CO2 head, a differential pressure transducer and a water meter, and each of the four ports is assigned its protocol from the dashboard.
No, and that is deliberate. A climate controller runs fans, inlets and heat on a tight loop and is the right tool for that job. Genesis measures the same house independently, on its own power and its own link, so a failure in the controller is something you find out about rather than something you discover at first light.
Yes. Relay, latching relay and bistable solenoid outputs over an H-bridge, with the rule and its dwell held on the device so it acts during a network outage. That covers a siren, a dialler, a flap or a valve. It does not cover staged fan control on a scan cycle, which belongs to the climate controller.
4G-LTE cellular, built in, because house Wi-Fi rarely reaches past the office and the houses that most need an alarm are the furthest from it. Wi-Fi is available where the site network is genuinely strong. Readings buffer through an outage and backfill in order once the link returns.
It is set by the transmit and collection intervals, both configurable from the dashboard after installation, with the solar and 6 to 32 V DC input keeping the cells topped up. Where mains is available the normal build runs from it and treats the battery as ride-through, which is what makes the alarm survive a power cut.
Yes. The cloud interface and the mobile apps run in several languages including right-to-left ones, which matters for operations across the Middle East and North Africa.
Yes. OmniCloud has been in continuous production since 2023 and carries millions of sensor readings a month from deployed controllers, on the same hardware and the same cloud sold here.
House count, what is already measured in them, and what you would want an alarm on at three in the morning. We come back with what a Genesis would read there and how many units a site of that size takes.
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