Sony Xperia U ST25i monitors your air quality, hydroponics, aquaponics, farm, anything else!
The Sony Xperia U ST25i is used to monitor Longoria’s Fe Ciega vineyard in Santa Barbara, California. It is a great fit for Valarm Pro since it supports internal and external sensors: weather (temperature, humidity, barometric pressure), CO2, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), switches, knobs, electrical resistance. Valarm running on this Sony device provides economical: Air quality monitoring Intruder [...]
How healthy is your air?
Quality of life and air quality are important for citizens all around the world, but how do you know what your environment is really like? The air we breathe every day has volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as methane (from human breath), alcohol (cleaning supplies), formaldehyde (materials for building), ketones (paints), esters (glues), and terpenes (perfume). [...]
Remote Micro-Climate Monitoring: Solar-powered Valarm in a Vineyard
One of Valarm’s main uses is remote environmental monitoring. Valarm is a cost-efficient tool for remotely monitoring any environment such as a farm, pipes in your basement, a room full of computer servers, water levels and flood alerts, light levels and intruder alerts, and the air quality (CO2 and volatile organic compounds, VOCs) in schoolrooms [...]
Valarm Pro update: v1.2 monitors CO2 and VOCs
Late last week we released v1.2 of Valarm Pro, which includes support for the Yoctopuce Yocto-CO2 and Yocto-VOC. These two new sensors bring indoor (and outdoor) air-quality monitoring to Valarm, along with a host of possibilities and important use cases. Some common users of CO2: Hydroponic growers (and to some degree aquaponics) frequently supplement CO2 [...]
How To Use Valarm Sensors for Flood Alerts and Water Detection
Is your basement flooding or water heater leaking? Do you want to keep track of the water level in your swimming pool, rainwater reservoir or personal fishing pond? How much water or liquid nutrient is remaining in the container for your plants? Valarm is a mobile app for (smart) phones and tablets that can [...]
How To Use Valarm, a Laser Pen, Mirror, and Light Sensor for Intruder Detection
Ever wanted to catch an intruder when they trip a laser beam? Want to know how many times your pet (or anything else) is going in and out of your house? Someone sneaking into a place they shouldn’t be? Using Valarm with a Yoctopuce “Yocto-Knob” allows you to DIY a powerful, internet + SMS connected, [...]
Valarm update: Yoctopuce Yocto-Knob
We’ve released v1.1.0* of Valarm Pro, which includes support for the incredibly fun and useful Yocto-Knob sensor†. This sensor allows you to monitor and record the status of up to 5 potentiometers. This includes normal rheostats/potentiometers, as well as buttons, switches, and any sensor which operates by altering resistance. This includes force-sensitive resistors (FSR) and garden variety [...]
Beginner PR efforts of a tech start-up in Silicon Beach: Valarm
Since we released Valarm in the Google Play store in December we have been spreading the good word and growing through a variety of methods including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and CrunchBase. We’ve now got a handful of clients around the world in Australia, United Kingdom, Hungary, United States, Italy, Brazil, and Switzerland. We created a Valarm [...]
How To Use Valarm For Vehicle, Asset, Teen, and Fleet Tracking
Howdy! In this How To tutorial you’ll learn how Valarm can be used as a general asset tracker. This could be used to track a single vehicle that may be driven by a sneaky teen. Or it could be used to track a motorcycle, any really expensive asset such as a guitar or camera equipment, entire [...]
How To Use Valarm for Remote Home Monitoring
Ever wanted an economical way to know if the temperature (or humidity, barometric pressure, other factors) of a remote location such as your house goes above or below your custom setting? With a Valarm-equipped Android device you will receive e-mails, SMS/text messages, and/or updates to web map tools. Follow this how-to document to learn more! [...]