Monitoring soil moisture contents for crop farming
Green Wall Monitoring: Why your vertical garden needs smart garden sensors
How is Reporter powered?
Storm & scaffolding: leveraging weather stations for enhanced construction site safety
Level measurement in a container or well
The ease of Reporter: Sumaq's a fan!
Protecting fruit tree blossoms from freezing
Adverse weather warning for your construction site
Real-time Frost Monitoring & Alert System
Pseudomonas syringae prevention in fruit trees
Cold storage of cut flowers with temperature monitoring
IoT sensor module with GPS tracker
What is the ideal temperature for a cold room?
Uses of the Crodeon API
A Weather Station with API
4 Things to look for in a temperature sensor with API
A weather station with water level sensor for a marina or harbour
How VITO makes Flanders waterproof
Why we manufacture in Belgium
Haringvliet bridge renovation: a weather station for construction sites
What is the ideal server room temperature?
Easy environmental monitoring for a server room
Steen Vastgoed and Reporter, a rock-steady duo!
FKT and Reporter: match made in cold room
A weather station with multiple sensors
A power failure detector for your construction site
Combined pressure and temperature measurement
Using a weather station on your construction site
Roof climate research
Sustainable irrigation with a water usage monitoring device
Green roof monitoring
Industrial odour monitoring with a weather station
How groundwater level affects cracks and tears in buildings
4G and solar-powered IoT device: Revolutionizing remote monitoring with Reporter
Housing requirements for a poultry farm: the complete guide
Monitoring heat treatment in cargo containers
How to prevent and detect a barn fire in a pig pen
Professionally farming mealworms: how to create an ideal growing environment?
Safeguarding poultry from heat stress: how to recognize and prevent it
Sustainable blueberry farming: a case study
Connecting a limit switch to the cloud
A dew point sensor for remote monitoring
The ultimate guide to potato storage monitoring
How KuNa Fish makes fish temperature monitoring a piece of cake
Pig suffocation and CO2 poisoning in swine
Wind monitoring and wind speed measurement
Halal HACCP: temperature monitoring in a factory
What is dew point?
Why you should monitor relative humidity in curing concrete
Monitoring archive temperature and relative humidity
At Crodeon, one of our core principles is local manufacturing. For us this means we work exclusively with Belgian assembly partners and we have numerous reasons to do so. Read on to find out why this is the right thing to do for Crodeon, especially in the long run.
Every Reporter is clearly marked “Designed and assembled in Belgium”. First of all, this makes us stand out from the crowd. To some extent, “made in Belgium” today still stands for quality and reliability, never a bad association. There’s also a much smaller environmental impact when you’re not shipping goods over thousands of kilometers. However, these are not the main reasons why we went along this path.
The main motivation for us to manufacture locally is because we want to stay closely involved with the production process. The team that manufactures a product, and especially the production manager or coordinator experiences first hand which assembly steps are easy and which are hard. After each production run he or she is perfectly positioned to provide feedback to the design team about what works and what doesn’t. By not having this feedback loop we would miss out on critical information on how to design Reporter for easier manufacturing and higher yield.
I don’t have to explain how this communication between engineering and manufacturing is smoother when they are just 10 km apart instead of 10000. In the long run, this feedback loop is what makes our products excel with regards to reliability and cost. Compared to the far east, our local manufacturers have relatively high labour costs. This forces us to optimise the design of our hardware as much as possible and to keep the amount of steps needed to build, test and deploy a new Reporter to a minimum.
At Crodeon we try to automate or eliminate as many production steps as possible, up to a point where the assembly process has become so simple that the hourly wage of the workers is almost irrelevant.
Another reason for us to manufacture locally is our ambition to rebuild the Belgian hardware engineering and electronics manufacturing community. By designing and manufacturing great products with thoughtful branding we want to inspire young people and convince them that STEM (and especially electronics) are awesome. This is also how we can compete internationally and how we can keep our brightest students and engineers from fleeing abroad.
Even though our impact is just a small part of the solution, we want to contribute however we can. Crodeon has been manufacturing locally for years now, and we have never been more convinced about this. The advantages are showing on a daily basis so don’t expect a change of plans any time soon.
As Co-Founder & CEO at Crodeon, Jonathan has a broad knowledge about how sensors are changing our daily lives. Over the past 7 years he has been talking to customers in many sectors, from agriculture to industry and everything in between. Jonathan knows the ins and outs of Internet of Things and what keeps our customers awake at night.
In this blog, we will have a look at the importance of soil moisture measurement for vegetable farming, what types of sensors are available, how monitoring helps you save water,...
In this blog, we will have a look at the importance of soil moisture measurement for vegetable farming, what types of sensors are available, how monitoring helps you save water,...
This blog will explain what parameters are important to track in your green wall, and how a remote monitoring system with plant monitor sensors can help you realise this.
This blog will explain what parameters are important to track in your green wall, and how a remote monitoring system with plant monitor sensors can help you realise this.
Our Remote monitoring system Reporter is both compatible with grid power and solar power. Every Reporter comes with an internal back-up battery of 5200 mAh. This battery ensures that even...
Our Remote monitoring system Reporter is both compatible with grid power and solar power. Every Reporter comes with an internal back-up battery of 5200 mAh. This battery ensures that even...
Storms and scaffolding pose significant challenges to construction sites. While complete avoidance may be impossible, proactive measures to protect your scaffolding (and cranes for that matter) in advance of heavy...
Storms and scaffolding pose significant challenges to construction sites. While complete avoidance may be impossible, proactive measures to protect your scaffolding (and cranes for that matter) in advance of heavy...
