The sensor transmits the following information:

• current temperature
• current humidity
• how much motion has been seen
• battery state
• uptime of the sensor

Due to the way LoRa works, the following information could be gathered as well:

• Approximate distance to the gateway (signal attenuation)

The data is encrypted using a key which only the LoRa provider and thingdust knows. The gateway or someone listening to the communcation on air would not be able to know what exactly the sensor sent.

The gateway:

• receives messages from all LoRa devices in range. That may be devices not from thingdust
• may be provided by thingdust or it may already be installed for different purposes.
• forward all received messages that are destined for thingdust to the LoRa provider

The gateway forwards the exact message as it has been received from the sensor. This usually happens over the mobile network.

We support different mobile providers that you can chose on if you wish:

• The Things Network
• Swisscom
• Loriot
• ... your provider of choice on request

The provider simply forwards the messages to the thingdust brain without doing anything further with it. If you already have a LoRa based installation in your company, we are happy to reuse that.

The transmission from the provider to thingdust contains the following information:

• The exact message from the sensor (as described above)
• which gateway(s) received the message
• Approximate distance to the gateway (signal attenuation)

The thingdust brain receives all messages from all sensors and processes them using the information given by the facility manager. To fulfill the purpose of the product, it may store and process:

• all messages exactly as they were sent
• which sensors are in which space
• the structural information of the spaces
• various other configuration parts given by the facility manager (e.g. authentication)

We monitor the system for early problem management, because of that the system may also store and process:

• logs of different nature (e.g. login, api usage ...)

By technical nature of the system, the following information may also be stored for system management purposes:

• client ip address

The communication between the dashboard and the thingdust brain happens in an encrypted matter (TLS).

The dashboard is the client visible part of the whole system. Only authorized clients can access information from the system.

The employee can access the following information:

• live state (temperature, humidity, occupancy)
• limited historical data

The employee may provide the following information to the system:

• his email address (for the authentication)
• feedback to thingdust

The facility manager can access the following information (when part of the bought package):

• live state (temperature, humidity, occupancy)
• historical data and analytics
• space configuration
• authentication configuration

The facility manager may provide the following information to the system:

• his email address (for the authentication)
• configuration changes
• feedback to thingdust

An application that is using the api can access:

• the live state (temperature, humidity, occupancy)

This may happen on a request basis (over ReST), or on a push-notification basis (over Websocket).

the employee is the person that uses the spaces where the thingdust sensors are placed. The employee is the person that sensor is supposed to detect its presence.

The facility manager is the person which configures the system and organizes the installation of the gateways and sensors.

Any third party application that the facility manager wants to be able to make use of the live sensor data may do so using our API.