Name: AQL-1 Field Sensor
Brand: UAC

FIELD NET · ACTIVE + TANK-04 LEVEL 82% + TROUGH-02 STABLE + GATE-01 SECURE + BOREHOLE-01 PUMP OK + LINK LOCKED · SIGNAL STRONG + BATT 3.98V · WITHIN BUDGET + PERIMETER QUIET + FIELD NET · ACTIVE + TANK-04 LEVEL 82% + TROUGH-02 STABLE + GATE-01 SECURE + BOREHOLE-01 PUMP OK + LINK LOCKED · SIGNAL STRONG + BATT 3.98V · WITHIN BUDGET + PERIMETER QUIET +

The Unit

AQL-1 Field Sensor

One sealed block of machined intent. Clamp it, bolt it, or drop it magnet-first onto steel — then walk away.

AQL-1 sensor resting on a box of safety matches, showing it is the same size

AQL-1 · SCALE: MATCHBOX · STATUS: ARMED

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Sleeps deep, wakes fastMicro-amp idle discipline. The unit rests dormant almost all of its life and wakes only when there is work — or the moment you call it.
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Answers when calledOn-demand interrogation from base. Ask, and it measures and reports in seconds — then goes dark again.
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Self-healing linkProprietary link negotiation finds the fastest reliable channel and falls back to maximum range on its own. No hand-tuning, ever.
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Sensor-agnostic coreLevel, soil, gates, tamper, temperature — the same hardened core runs them all.
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Enclosure to suit the missionHousings vary by sensor and posting — matchbox-sized or similar, sealed to the job, with an optional small solar panel for indefinite endurance. Units shown are representative.

Capability

Built like field kit,
because it is field kit

CAP 01

Off-grid by design

Runs where phones don't. The radio link doesn't care about towers, load-shedding or dead zones — it carries your data across the farm on its own.

CAP 02

Years, not weeks

Aggressive power engineering measured at the micro-amp level. A single small cell holds the line for years of duty.

CAP 03

Command from base

Pull a reading on demand, schedule reports, or re-task the radio — all from the base station. The unit obeys and returns to blackout.

CAP 04

Recovers itself

Lose contact for any reason and both ends hunt for each other on a disciplined fallback ladder until the link stands again. No ladder climbing, no site visits.

CAP 05

Tethered mode

Plug any unit into a laptop and it becomes a live high-speed instrument for commissioning and QA — then unplug and redeploy.

CAP 06

Fleet-ready

One base station shepherds a fleet of units across the property — tanks, troughs, gates and fence lines on one screen.

Deployment

Water. Farm. Perimeter.

Same unit. Different war.

Sensor on the rim of a full galvanised farm reservoir, watching the water level

OP · WATER

Water Assurance

Tanks, reservoirs, boreholes and troughs — levels watched day and night, from the homestead.

Tank & reservoir levels
Borehole / pump status
Empty-trough alerts

Agricultural sensor deployment at a cattle trough

OP · AGRI

Agricultural Ops

The daily diesel patrol, retired. Your lands report in — you drive out only when something needs you.

Soil moisture
Livestock water points
Gate & equipment status

Perimeter security sensor on a farm gate at night

OP · WATCH

Perimeter Awareness

Silent tripwires for gates, fence lines and remote assets — reporting over a link that cuts no cellular cord because it never had one.

Gate open / close events
Tamper & movement
Remote asset presence

Procedure

Three moves. Done.

◫MINUTES

Deploy

Magnet it to steel, bolt it to a post, strap it to a pipe. Boots on, unit on, walk away — no wiring, no laptop, no settings to get wrong in the sun.

MAGNETBOLTSTRAP

◓UNDER A MINUTE

Link

The base station hunts it down, proves the channel and locks on by itself. No aiming, no climbing, no coaxing a signal out of a hill.

FINDPROVELOCK

◉FROM ANYWHERE

Command

Levels on screen, readings on demand, a shout when something moves. From the stoep, the bakkie or the office — the farm reports to you.

WATCHPULLALERT

Comms & Power

Every link. Every power source.

Four ways in, three ways to feed it. Whatever the posting demands.

LINK 01

LoRa Long-Range

Sub-GHz, licence-free. 2–10 km line-of-sight, terrain dependent — clean across a working farm without a single tower.

LINK 02

Bluetooth

Walk up and commission from a phone. No cables, no laptop in the field — pair, calibrate, walk away.

LINK 03

USB Tethered

Plug any node into a laptop and it becomes a live high-speed instrument. The base station runs the fleet over the same port.

PWR 01

Battery — Years

Micro-amp sleep discipline on a single small cell. Multi-year endurance, calculated from draw measured on a bench power profiler. Every micro-amp in that sum came off our own meter — the duty cycle is measured, the years are arithmetic, and we will show you both.

PWR 02

Solar Assist

Optional small panel turns years into indefinite. A palm-sized cell is all the African sun needs.

PWR 03

Modes

On-demand interrogation · scheduled self-report · tethered instrument. Switch any node's doctrine from the base, over the air.

LINK 04

GPS Position

Optional position tag — every node knows exactly where it stands, and your map shows it. Move it, and the grid follows.

Command Console

What you actually see

One screen for the whole property. Levels, pumps, gates and soil — reported in, ranked by what needs you first.

UAC FIELD COMMAND · WATER + PERIMETER 05:41

STATIONS UP12 / 12

LINKLOCKED

PUMP BH-01RUNNING 41m

PERIMETERALL SECURE

TANK & RESERVOIR LEVELS

TANK-0482%

RESERVOIR-0164%

TANK-0731%

TROUGH-0211%

TANK-04 · LAST 24 HOURS

05:38TROUGH-02 below 15% — refill required

05:12TANK-07 falling faster than usual

04:56BH-01 pump started automatically

03:20GATE-01 closed · no further movement

02:04All 12 stations reported · link strong

UAC FIELD COMMAND · SOIL CONDITION 05:41

PROBES UP6 / 6

SOIL TEMP14.2 °C

DRIEST BLOCKBLOCK-05

LAST RAIN9 DAYS AGO

SOIL MOISTURE BY BLOCK

BLOCK-0158%

BLOCK-0251%

BLOCK-0344%

BLOCK-0429%

BLOCK-0517%

BLOCK-05 · LAST 7 DAYS

05:30BLOCK-05 at 17% — irrigation advised

05:30BLOCK-04 approaching lower band

04:15Soil temp 14.2 °C · within range

23:50All probes reported · link strong

19:02BLOCK-01 recovered after irrigation

TANK FARM · ALL STATIONS AT A GLANCE

TANK-04

82%

NOMINAL

RESERVOIR-01

64%

NOMINAL

TANK-07

31%

LOW

TROUGH-02

11%

CRITICAL

TANK-09

96%

NOMINAL

SUMP-01

48%

NOMINAL

CONSOLE VIEWS SHOWN ARE REPRESENTATIVE · VALUES ILLUSTRATE LAYOUT, NOT A LIVE DEPLOYMENT

Specification

Numbers that matter

Form factor	Matchbox-class or similar — enclosure varies by sensor & posting
Endurance	Multi-year on a single small cell · optional solar = indefinite
Idle draw	Micro-amp class
Radio	LoRa sub-GHz long-range, licence-free band
Reach	2–10 km line-of-sight · terrain dependent
Local links	Bluetooth (walk-up commissioning) · USB (tethered / base)
Position	Optional GPS tag — every node on your area map
Recurring cost	None. No SIM, no airtime, no cloud rent.

Sensing	Level · soil · gate · tamper · temperature
Modes	On-demand · scheduled report · tethered instrument
Base station	Compact USB unit + command console
Link protocol	[ PROPRIETARY ]
Wake & power discipline	[ PROPRIETARY ]
Link recovery doctrine	[ PROPRIETARY ]

OPSEC: Full technical documentation is released to qualified partners and field-trial customers under agreement. What makes these units run for years and never lose the link is our business.

Pricing

Pay once. Own it. Done.

No SIM cards. No airtime. No cloud rent. The unit on your tank answers to you and nobody else — for years.

Base Station

R1,995

one-off · commands the whole fleet

Compact USB command unit
Command console software included
Shepherds every node on the property

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COMPLETE SYSTEM · START HERE

Recon Kit — base + 2 nodes

R7,995

one-off · save R990 vs separates

Base station + two AQL-1 nodes
Watch two positions from day one
Deployed & linked in minutes
12-month field warranty

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AQL-1 Node

R3,495

one-off · per node · one base station serves the whole farm

Sealed field unit, enclosure to suit sensor
Level · soil · gate · tamper · temp heads
Optional small solar panel — indefinite duty
Fleet rate from 10 nodes: R2,995

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TYPICAL GSM MONITOR — 3 YEARS± R6,000 and countingillustrative: a typical SA cellular monitor plus a R99/month data SIM — forever, and only where there is signal

AQL-1 — 3 YEARSR3,495. Once.no signal needed, no monthly bleed, no second invoice — ever

Do the other sum too: one pump run dry, one empty trough found too late, one night of stolen diesel — any one of them costs more than the sensor that would have warned you.

Field Doctrine

STANDING ORDER 01African ruggedness

Heat. Dust. Distance. Lightning. Load-shedding. That list was the design brief from the first sketch — designed and built here, by the engineer who has to answer for it, not designed for Europe and shipped south with a new label. SA field trials are open now.

STANDING ORDER 02Measured, not promised

Every endurance figure starts as draw measured on a bench power profiler. The micro-amps are measured and logged; the years are arithmetic off those numbers — and we will show you the working. We do not quote what we have not seen on the meter.

STANDING ORDER 03Yours, outright

Your data stays on your property, on your screen. No forced cloud, no monthly ransom, no third party in the loop, no vendor holding your farm hostage.

Rugged sensors.
Years on a battery.
Kilometres of reach.

AQL-1 Field Sensor