About the MySentinel alarm system
MySentinel is a monitored sensing and alarm platform, built and run by the engineers who designed it. It watches the environments where failure is expensive and nobody is around — poultry sheds, coolstores, haysheds, server rooms — and has been doing that across New Zealand since 2020. More than 65 units are in the field today.
How the system works
A compact unit installs at the site — in a shed annex, plant room or rack — powered from a standard power point with its own internal battery. Cable probes and wireless sensors feed it readings every minute. The unit talks to the cloud over its own Cat-M1 cellular connection, choosing the strongest network available and switching automatically if one fails. Your dashboard shows every site at a glance, from any browser.
An alarm someone actually answers
Most alarms send a text and hope. MySentinel rings a phone with a voice message stating the site and the reason. If the call isn't acknowledged, it rings the next number on your list, then the next — looping until a real person presses 1. Thresholds adapt to context — bird age in a poultry shed, product band in a coolstore — so the phone only rings when it matters.
Independent by design
The platform never depends on the infrastructure it monitors. Power cut? The internal battery keeps it reporting. Internet down? It never needed yours. Unit goes silent? That raises an alarm too.
The record
Every reading is retained indefinitely. That history is an independent, timestamped record of your site's conditions — evidence for welfare audits, insurance claims and your own operational decisions.