Rather than three unrelated products, MLabs builds a single Convergent Shoreline Node and changes only its sensor population and firmware profile. Shared tooling, shared supply chain, shared codebase — that commonality is the entire cost argument.
Solar in-stream PIT-tag reader, 134.2 kHz FDX-B. Supplemental-density fish-passage detection at culverts and barriers no agency can afford to instrument with commercial gear.
SpecificationsThe full sensing build: dual-channel fluorescence, lab-grade pH and conductivity, particulate air quality, and on-node TinyML cyanobacteria inference.
RoadmapReuses the deployed gateway mesh for sub-gram LoRa wildlife beacons. The gateway side is shared; beacon firmware sits on the late-2026 roadmap.
Design notesEvery configuration runs the same nRF52840 + SX1262 core, the same LiFePO4 solar power train rated for Michigan winter charging, and the same open backend. A fix written for one deployment propagates to all of them.