Every reading arrives with its age and its lane attached.
This is the dashboard a site owner sees, shown here as a demonstration series rather than as live telemetry, because no unit is deployed yet. Everything on it is real in structure: the measures, the reporting rates, the aggregation windows, the freshness bands and the privacy boundary are the ones the shipping head implements. Two things are worth watching. First, the soil block only appears on the off-road variant, because a bench bolted to a paviour has no soil to read. Second, no value is presented as current: a delayed node says Delayed.
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Demonstration nodes on the board
Demonstration96
Noise aggregates published per node per day
Verified0.2 mm per tip
Rainfall resolution at the canopy drip line
VerifiedFree charges today, fleet
Demonstration52
Across the demonstration board
Energy given away today
Demonstration468 Wh
From each bench's own store
Nodes reporting inside 15 minutes
Demonstration3
The rest are shown as delayed, not hidden
Cameras on the head
Verified0
No connector exists to add one
Pick a node. Then move the clock and watch the day shape it.
The noise trace carries a two-hump diurnal shape because streets do. The clock control exists so you can see the same node at breakfast, at the evening peak and at two in the morning, which is when a licensing argument is usually about.
Node 01
Stevenson Square, Manchester
Local clock
17:0081%
State of charge
Demonstration16
Free charges today
DemonstrationFreshness is a band, not a colour on a dot. Anything over four hours reads Stale and a consumer of the feed is expected to treat it as history rather than as current conditions.
Sound level, last six hours in quarter-hour aggregates
peak 78.3 dB(A)Rainfall, last 24 hours in hourly totals
peak 1 mm- Value
- 62.5 dB(A)
- Age
- 3 min
- Reading
- Ordinary busy street, well inside daytime expectations
- Value
- 52 dB(A)
- Age
- 3 min
- Reading
- The floor the street sits on when nothing loud is happening, the quantity a BS 4142 style assessment argues from
- Value
- 77.5 dB(A)
- Age
- 3 min
- Reading
- Loudest single event in the window, held on device for 72 hours and never as audio
- Value
- 0 mm
- Age
- 3 min
- Reading
- Dry at the canopy
- Value
- 0.8 mm
- Age
- 3 min
- Reading
- Measured at the site rather than inferred from the nearest official gauge
- Value
- 18.9 C
- Age
- 3 min
- Reading
- Shielded and aspirated under the seat lip, so it reads air rather than sunlit plastic
- Value
- 82 %
- Age
- 3 min
- Reading
- Supports the dew point line used by the frost and condensation logic
- Value
- 19 ug/m3
- Age
- 3 min
- Reading
- Elevated for this class of site
- Value
- 39 ug/m3
- Age
- 3 min
- Reading
- Coarse fraction, useful for dust and works complaints
- Value
- 8784 lux at seat
- Age
- 3 min
- Reading
- Read from the array against its own reference curve, so it also validates the energy model
No soil head on this node. It is an Urban unit on a hard surface, so moisture, conductivity and pH are not reported rather than reported badly.
One line per node, with the stale ones still on the list.
- Site
- Stevenson Square, Manchester
- Variant
- Urban
- LAeq
- 62.5 dB(A)
- Rain 24h
- 0.8 mm
- Charge
- 81%
- Soil
- Not applicable
- Freshness
- Live
- Site
- Oxford Road campus, Manchester
- Variant
- Urban
- LAeq
- 55 dB(A)
- Rain 24h
- 0.8 mm
- Charge
- 72%
- Soil
- Not applicable
- Freshness
- Live
- Site
- Heaton Park, north Manchester
- Variant
- Urban
- LAeq
- 43.9 dB(A)
- Rain 24h
- 0.8 mm
- Charge
- 70%
- Soil
- Not applicable
- Freshness
- Live
- Site
- Kinder Scout approach, Peak District
- Variant
- Wayfarer
- LAeq
- 31.6 dB(A)
- Rain 24h
- 33.9 mm
- Charge
- 64%
- Soil
- Fitted
- Freshness
- Recent
- Site
- Co-operative yard, target region
- Variant
- Wayfarer
- LAeq
- 41.1 dB(A)
- Rain 24h
- 1.2 mm
- Charge
- 49%
- Soil
- Fitted
- Freshness
- Delayed
Stated here, at the point of display, not only in a policy nobody opens.
No camera exists on the head and there is no connector to add one, so there is no image to request, leak or subpoena.
The microphone produces a level in decibels and nothing else. Audio never leaves the sampling loop, is never buffered to storage and is never transmitted, so speech cannot be reconstructed from anything the bench sends.
Occupancy is counted and aggregated on the device. An hourly count leaves the bench, never an individual movement or a device identifier.
No MAC address, IMEI or subscriber identity from a user's phone is stored against a reading. The public Wi-Fi lane is isolated from the telemetry lane by design.
Every reading carries its own timestamp and lane, so a consumer can see how old a number is instead of assuming it is current.
Readings publish as open data by default, under whichever licence the site owner selects. A bench bought with public money should produce public numbers.