Pricing Example
You want to set up a connected water monitoring deployment with 500 solar powered telemetry systems. Let’s figure out what your monthly budget should look like.
Monitoring
You set up your Octave edge device to monitor 3 datapoints:
- Groundwater level
- Acidity
- Battery level
You want to log these datapoints every hour but don’t need real-time updates - you’re happy to get the data every 6 hours. With Octave, that will generate 4 messages per day x 30 days x 500 devices = 60,000 messages per month.
On top of that, you want to set up an alert to send a message immediately when any of these values changes by more than 20% in an hour. You expect these alerts to generate an additional 100 messages per month for the entire deployment. That makes a total of 60,100 messages per month.
50 devices will be receiving a 0.5 MB file and 50 devices a 2 MB file each month. This will be 100 file transfers per month, + 5 x 1 MB transfer fee (for the 2 MB file transfers).
Your deployment is in Region A, so your rate is $1 monthly per connected device plus $1 for every 1000 messages, $0.5 per file transfer and $0.25 per MB beyond the 1 MB pooled across devices. Per the table below, this works out to a monthly total of $1060.10 per month, or $2.12 per telemetry system.
Flood Warning
There have been heavy rains in one area that could result in potential flooding. You have 10 systems in that area, and now want real-time updates every hour from those systems.
No problem. With Octave, a simple push of a new Blueprint can update the observation engine to route the groundwater level, acidity, and battery measurements to the cloud once per hour. These systems now generate 24 messages per day each. Your new monthly budget for those 10 systems goes up to $1.72 per system because you are sending data more frequently. Of course, you can change the data rate back to normal as soon as the flood risk decreases.