Infrastructure assets are distributed, unpowered, hard to reach and expected to last a decade. That combination rules out most consumer IoT assumptions immediately. Faststream builds monitoring and safety systems for utilities, buildings, cities and rail corridors around low-power sensing, long-range links and devices that will not be visited often.
Corridor and track monitoring for obstruction and intrusion, with classification tuned so the nuisance alarm rate keeps the system switched on.
Distributed sensing across pressure, flow, level and quality, on low-power links, with analytics for leak and anomaly detection.
String and inverter monitoring, soiling and shading detection, and performance analytics across distributed sites.
Occupancy, environment, energy and utilisation sensing that informs how space is actually operated.
Fill-level sensing, collection routing and service-level reporting.
Zone presence, mustering, lone-worker monitoring and PPE compliance.
A rail corridor is long, mostly empty, and occasionally occupied by something that must be detected before a train arrives. Camera-only approaches struggle at night, in fog and against low-contrast obstructions. LiDAR gives range and geometry regardless of illumination, which is why it anchors the sensing.
The binding constraint is not detection but the false alarm rate. A system that stops services for foliage movement is switched off within a fortnight, so classification, temporal persistence and zone geometry matter more than raw sensitivity. Fusion with camera imagery is what makes a confident classification possible.
Direct range and geometry independent of illumination, which is what makes night, fog and low-contrast obstruction detection tractable. Camera imagery is fused with it to supply classification, because the practical constraint is the nuisance alarm rate rather than raw detection.
Typically years, but the dominant variable is reporting policy rather than cell chemistry. A sensor reporting hourly on a low-power wide-area link behaves very differently from one reporting every five minutes.
By assuming they will not be visited. Remote diagnostics, over-the-air update, degraded-mode behaviour and self-reported health are designed in, because a site visit frequently costs more than the device.
Tell us the specification, the constraint and the deadline. Programmes that cross silicon, radio, embedded and AI are where Faststream is strongest.