Example Pricing
You want to set up a connected water monitoring system. You’ve got 500 solar powered telemetry systems that monitor groundwater level and acidity (pH). Let’s figure out what your monthly budget should look like.
You set up your Octave edge device to monitor (1) groundwater level, (2) acidity, and (3) the battery level of the system giving you 3 datapoints. You want to log these datapoints every hour but don’t need real-time updates - you’re happy to get a report every 6 hours. With Octave, that would equate to sending one message every 6 hours or 4 messages per day.
However, you also want to get an immediate notification when any of these parameters change by more than 20% in a single hour. No problem, just set up an alert that gets sent as a message immediately. You expect this to happen on average 100 times per month for the entire system.
To add to the complexity, there’s 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, pH, and battery measurements to the cloud every hour. Your new monthly budget for those 10 systems goes up because you are sending data more frequently. Of course, you can change it back to the normal transmission rate as soon as the flood risk decreases.