FieldEdge

How it fits together

FieldEdge, part by part

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1. 01

   The whole FieldEdge

   Three cameras and three heat sensors feed one CM5 in the pole head; one cellular radio sends smoke, moths and heat flag to one app.

2. 02Brain

   Raspberry Pi CM5 + Hailo-8L

   The brain: it runs the fieldedge orchestrator program

3. 

   03

   Two horizon cameras

   Take 12 MP stills of the tree line and hills

   Raspberry Pi CM5 + Hailo-8L · CSI-2 ribbon cable · 12 MP still frames

4. 

   04

   Trap card camera

   Photographs the sticky card twice a day, LEDs on

   Raspberry Pi CM5 + Hailo-8L · 1 m CSI-2 ribbon, camera switch · Card photos

5. 05

   Black globe + PT1000

   Reads radiant heat from sun and ground for WBGT

   Raspberry Pi CM5 + Hailo-8L · SPI (MAX31865) · Globe temperature

6. 06

   SHT45 in a shield

   Air temperature and humidity for WBGT and fire weather

   Raspberry Pi CM5 + Hailo-8L · I²C (3 m shielded lead) · Temperature and humidity

7. 

   07

   Ultrasonic wind sensor

   Wind speed for the globe correction and fire weather

   Raspberry Pi CM5 + Hailo-8L · RS-485 (USB adapter) · Wind speed and direction

8. 

   08

   nRF9151 cellular radio

   Wakes the CM5 and sends alerts by LTE-M or satellite

   Raspberry Pi CM5 + Hailo-8L · UART, 1 Mbaud · Alerts, counts and commands

9. 

   09

   4-colour beacon + buzzer

   Shows the heat flag to crews in the rows

   Raspberry Pi CM5 + Hailo-8L · GPIO to MOSFETs (24 V) · Flag colour and buzz

10. 10

    All connected

    8 key parts, one program, and your phone

The idea

One solar pole where the orchard meets the woods: smoke on the ridge, moth counts and the crew's heat flag

How the parts connect

FieldEdge, wired up

Every part, what links it to the brain, and how the data reaches your phone. A solid line is a cable; a dashed line is a radio link.

The program

What controls FieldEdge

for (;;) {
  for (const cam of HORIZON) {
    const band = cropBand(await libcameraStill(cam), cam.horizonMask)
    tracker.update(cam, await hailo.infer(tile(band, 640)))   // smoke class
  }
  for (const c of tracker.confirmed()) if (!inMuteZone(c)) modem.send(alertJson(c))
  const w = wbgt(max31865.read(), sht45.read(), anemometer.read())  // estimate
  beacon.set(flagFor(w, site.workload))                              // green/yellow/red/black
  if (flagChanged(w)) modem.send({ wbgt: w, flag: beacon.flag })
  if (trapDue()) {
    mux.select('trap'); leds.on(); const card = await libcameraStill('trap'); leds.off()
    modem.send(countNewMoths(card, lastCard))                       // classifier on the CM5
  }
  await sleep(fireWeather(sht45, anemometer) ? 30_000 : 60_000)
}

To your phone

How the data reaches FieldEdge app and alerts

Phone push, SMS, voice call and web map

1. Pole head
2. LTE-M · MQTT/TLS (satellite text backup)
3. IEMI cloud
4. Push, SMS or voice call
5. Grower's phone

Key specs

Targets for production units; they may change during development.

Pricing

Target pricing. Bought separately, SmokeSentinel AI (from $4,900 + $199/month), PestTrap AI ($299 + $6/month) and HeatGuard AI ($699 + $19/month) add up to $5,898 + $224/month. Parts cost about $1,660 per pole at qty 1 (est.). Cards and lures are sold separately.

Indicative launch pricing in USD, excluding taxes and shipping. Final pricing is confirmed before any balance is charged.

1. 28 Oct 2026, 16:55LatestAn orchard or vineyard next to woods in wildfire country needs smoke on the ridge spotted, moth traps counted and the crew's heat watched under Cal/OSHA heat and smoke rules; today that is agency cameras near $50,000 a station a year, weekly trap walks and a $554 handheld heat meter (sources in DESIGN.md).

   • Drawn idea plan (idea.json): an orchard headland from above with the tree rows, the headland track, the scrub and the ridge with a smoke column, the camera views toward the hills and the farm office; pins for the pole, the crew supervisor's phone and the manager's phone
   • The product picture is now this drawn plan instead of the plain fallback card; drawn from the rev A design notes, not the CAD
   • What we kept from the market work: the pole is a daylight smoke spotter, never a fire detector, and the heat flag is guidance next to the employer's own heat plan; the plan says so through what each pin does
   • Next: drawn plans for more catalogue products that still show the fallback card

   See it in 3DFull research and design

2. 27 Oct 2026, 08:59Fruit and wine growers next to woods face three jobs in the same summer: smoke from a fire in the hills, pests to count every week, and crews working in heat under California rules (shade from 80 °F, Cal/OSHA §3395; act on smoke from AQI 151, §5141.1). Agency smoke cameras cost about $50,000 a year, camera traps are sold per trap per season, and a Kestrel heat meter is about $554; our own three products for it cost $5,898 and $224 a month.

   • New product FieldEdge: one solar pole with one brain does the jobs of SmokeSentinel AI, PestTrap AI and HeatGuard AI, with one cellular radio, one panel, one battery and one app
   • Reused CAD parts unchanged: the SmokeSentinel head set and PestTrap's delta trap, card tray and lure basket; new trap camera box and lid, and five arms for the shield, globe, wind sensor, beacon and trap; 18 printed parts, each one solid, every bought part fits
   • 3D view: a 3.2 m pole at the edge of an orchard next to a pine tree line, with the head on top, the trap, globe, shield, wind sensor and beacon on arms, and the solar panel and battery box lower down
   • Dropped: PestTrap's own chip, LoRa radio, AA cells and gateway; HeatGuard's own brain, modem, panel, battery and e-ink panel; two of SmokeSentinel's four cameras. Added: the official air-quality index in the app next to smoke alerts
   • Product page https://iemilabs.com/products/fieldedge/: $2,990 + $49/month instead of $5,898 + $224/month; parts about $1,660 at quantity 1 (est.)

   See it in 3DFull research and design

3. 27 Oct 2026, 08:59Fruit and wine growers next to woods face three jobs in the same summer: smoke from a fire in the hills, pests to count every week, and crews working in heat under California rules (shade from 80 °F, Cal/OSHA §3395; act on smoke from AQI 151, §5141.1). Agency smoke cameras cost about $50,000 a year, camera traps are sold per trap per season, and a Kestrel heat meter is about $554; our own three products for it cost $5,898 and $224 a month.

   • Combined into FieldEdge (https://iemilabs.com/products/fieldedge/); SmokeSentinel AI itself is unchanged

   See it in 3DFull research and design

4. 27 Oct 2026, 08:59Fruit and wine growers next to woods face three jobs in the same summer: smoke from a fire in the hills, pests to count every week, and crews working in heat under California rules (shade from 80 °F, Cal/OSHA §3395; act on smoke from AQI 151, §5141.1). Agency smoke cameras cost about $50,000 a year, camera traps are sold per trap per season, and a Kestrel heat meter is about $554; our own three products for it cost $5,898 and $224 a month.

   • Combined into FieldEdge (https://iemilabs.com/products/fieldedge/); PestTrap AI itself is unchanged

   See it in 3DFull research and design

5. 27 Oct 2026, 08:59Fruit and wine growers next to woods face three jobs in the same summer: smoke from a fire in the hills, pests to count every week, and crews working in heat under California rules (shade from 80 °F, Cal/OSHA §3395; act on smoke from AQI 151, §5141.1). Agency smoke cameras cost about $50,000 a year, camera traps are sold per trap per season, and a Kestrel heat meter is about $554; our own three products for it cost $5,898 and $224 a month.

   • Combined into FieldEdge (https://iemilabs.com/products/fieldedge/); HeatGuard AI itself is unchanged

   See it in 3DFull research and design