46 camera nodes · 100 W · 640 Wh
46 cameras, 11 km of fence, no grid
A cattle station needed fence-line coverage across 11 km where the nearest power was 4 km away.
- Location
- Queensland, Australia
- Installed
- 14 Apr 2026
Trenching to 46 camera positions was quoted at more than the cameras themselves. The station instead used our pole-mounted node on existing fence posts, with a 100 W panel and a 640 Wh pack per node.
The load is a 15 W PTZ camera on PoE. At 20% state of charge the controller drops PoE and keeps a 12 V gate sensor alive, so the station still knows when a gate opens even in a long grey spell.
Uptime after eighteen months is 97.8%. The three outages were all connector damage from cattle rubbing the poles, now solved with a steel guard.