Michigan Lake Analytics & Bio-Sensing · Wayne, MI
Status verified May 2026About the program
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Pre-concept

WildMesh

A wildlife-telemetry layer that rides on the same LoRaWAN gateway mesh the water nodes already need — sub-gram beacons reporting presence and movement where cellular collars are too heavy, too costly, or out of coverage.

Why it's on the page at all

The gateway is the expensive part, and it's already there.

Once a tributary or shoreline has a StreamTrack or AquaMesh deployment, it has a LoRaWAN gateway. WildMesh is the observation that the same gateway can listen for tiny, cheap animal beacons at near-zero marginal infrastructure cost.

This is the least mature idea in the portfolio, and it is labelled that way deliberately. The gateway side is shared and real; the beacon hardware and firmware are a late-2026 roadmap item, not a product. Listing it honestly is more useful than overselling it.

Honest status

What exists and what doesn't

Shared & real

The gateway, network server, and backend are the same infrastructure the water nodes use. Nothing new is required on that side.

Roadmap

Sub-gram beacon hardware, attachment, and firmware are unbuilt. No timeline is committed beyond "after the water nodes prove out."

No claims

No range, battery-life, or localization-accuracy figures are published, because none have been measured. Anything stated otherwise would be invented.