Managed IoT Hosting
ChirpStack, ThingsBoard, and Grafana on hardened infrastructure. Operations, backups, and monitoring for Castrop-Rauxel-based companies and municipalities - you focus on your core business.
View serviceFrom LoRaWAN network planning to hardware selection and managed IoT hosting - your IoT service provider for Castrop-Rauxel and the northern Ruhr area. Designed around documented data paths, clear operating responsibilities, and personal technical support.
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Regional requirements, robust technology
Castrop-Rauxel is centrally located in the northern Ruhr area - traversed by the Rhine-Herne Canal, shaped by post-mining transformation, and home to a strong SME sector in the Ickern and Bladenhorst commercial areas. Whether municipal infrastructure, building automation, or environmental monitoring on brownfield sites: we host the IoT platforms that reliably process your sensor data.
Sensors, gateways, data platform, business application, identities, interfaces, and operations are planned together. Additional sites, cloud services, or local edge systems can then build on the same architecture model.
Your IoT stack on privacy-focused servers in Germany. Data sovereignty and compliance for Castrop-Rauxel-based companies, municipal utilities, and local government.
24/7 monitoring tracks agreed system metrics and raises alerts at defined thresholds. Response and handling follow the selected service level.
A dedicated technical contact, coordinated commissioning, and clearly defined response times.
Concrete services
You can start with one clearly defined requirement. Architecture, devices, platform, applications, and operations are planned so the first component can become part of one coherent IoT system when needed.
ChirpStack, ThingsBoard, and Grafana on hardened infrastructure. Operations, backups, and monitoring for Castrop-Rauxel-based companies and municipalities - you focus on your core business.
View serviceWe plan radio coverage and gateway positions from site and building data, select suitable gateways and sensors, provision devices and payload decoders, and integrate them with ChirpStack. Device onboarding, data validation, and radio testing are coordinated with the platform.
View serviceEnd-to-end development of your IoT solution: custom web apps, mobile apps, and dashboards for municipal infrastructure, commercial park monitoring, and environmental data. From platform setup to finished application - cloud or on-premise.
View serviceConnect machines, PLCs, HMIs, edge systems, ERP, and MES through documented protocols and interfaces in one controlled data flow.
View serviceRegional application fields
Typical starting points for companies and organizations in Castrop-Rauxel and the surrounding economic region.
Smart city solutions for street lighting, energy monitoring, water supply, and municipal properties. Central dashboard for the municipal utilities with real-time consumption data and automatic threshold alerting.
Technical approach
ChirpStack, ThingsBoard, Grafana
Condition monitoring for SME operations: energy consumption, building automation, and machine monitoring across commercial parks. Non-invasive sensors connected via LoRaWAN to hosted dashboards.
Technical approach
ThingsBoard, Grafana, MQTT
Water level monitoring along the Rhine-Herne Canal, environmental sensors on brownfield conversion sites such as Erin Park, and groundwater surveillance. LoRaWAN sensors along the canal infrastructure - we operate the server infrastructure and dashboards.
Technical approach
ChirpStack, Node-RED, Milesight
The examples illustrate possible application patterns. Architecture, radio coverage, device selection, data model, and operating scope are assessed for the specific project.
One system instead of isolated silos
Value does not come from a single sensor or dashboard. What matters is an end-to-end data path with clear interfaces, access rules, and operating responsibilities.
Sensors, gateways, machines, PLCs, and existing data sources are selected or connected according to the measurement task, environment, and protocol.
View componentLoRaWAN, MQTT, cellular links, edge gateways, and private networks move data between sites, platforms, and other systems in a controlled way.
View componentChirpStack, ThingsBoard, Grafana, databases, and rule engines provide device management, processing, history, and alerting.
View componentDashboards, portals, mobile apps, and ERP, MES, and API integrations put IoT data into the actual workflows.
View componentMonitoring, backups, updates, incident response, and service levels keep the platform and data paths maintainable and transparent.
View componentThe architecture can grow with more devices, sites, applications, and deployment locations without introducing isolated connections or hard-to-maintain special paths for every extension.
Technical foundation
Open-source stack optimized for municipal and industrial environments: ChirpStack for LoRaWAN network management, ThingsBoard for device control and rule engine, Grafana for visualization. Hosted on Linux servers with TLS encryption, automatic backups, and regular security updates.
LoRaWAN
Radio standard
EU868
Frequency plan
MQTT & APIs
Interfaces
Cloud & on-premises
Deployment models

We rely on Milesight and know the product portfolio inside out - from environmental sensors to LoRaWAN gateways to industrial controllers. We advise, source and integrate the right hardware for your use case.
Milesight hardware ships worldwide - we deliver pre-configured and firmware-updated, ready to deploy.
We also work with hardware from other manufacturers - whether proprietary or open-source. What matters is that it works reliably and integrates into our stack.
Project path
The initial step remains manageable. Device count, architecture, integrations, and operating responsibilities are defined only after the technical assessment.
Capture measurements, sites, users, existing systems, alert paths, and the expected business outcome.
Combine radio path, devices, platform, data model, interfaces, and security requirements in a testable design.
Provision devices, configure services, process data, and connect dashboards or business applications.
Agree monitoring, updates, backups, and response paths, then add further sites or capabilities in a controlled way.
Region and scale
A regional entry point does not limit the architecture. Platforms can cover multiple plants, properties, fields, or customer sites under one operating model.
The regional scope includes Castrop-Rauxel, Herne, Waltrop, Oer-Erkenschwick, Recklinghausen, Bochum. Multiple sites can share one platform while retaining separate roles, data spaces and alert paths.
Industries
The technical foundation can be adapted to different measurement tasks and business processes.
Specialist services
Dedicated service pages explain platforms, development, LoRaWAN, and visualization in detail.
Enquiry
Briefly describe the measurement task, sites, existing devices, and desired outcome. We will assess architecture, platform, integration, and possible operations.
Answers about our IoT services in Castrop-Rauxel and the northern Ruhr area - from municipal sensors and commercial park monitoring to managed operations for utilities, SMEs, and environmental surveillance.
Themen
We deliver smart city solutions for street lighting control, energy monitoring of municipal properties, water supply surveillance, and building automation. From sensors to a central dashboard for Stadtwerke Castrop-Rauxel - everything end to end.
LoRaWAN sensors capture the status of individual lights, report failures in real time, and enable demand-based dimming. Additionally, energy sensors monitor consumption in municipal buildings - all visualized in a central dashboard with automatic alerting.
We analyze the urban area along the Rhine-Herne Canal, the commercial zones in Ickern and Bladenhorst, and the residential areas. Gateway locations are chosen to achieve full coverage - accounting for building density and canal infrastructure.
Yes. All devices are shipped with pre-set network parameters, payload decoders, and current firmware. Device onboarding and data validation are coordinated with the platform.
Yes. Beyond standard dashboards in Grafana and ThingsBoard, we build custom web apps and mobile apps - for example, street lighting management, canal water level overviews, or energy monitoring cockpits for commercial parks.
Yes. Via ThingsBoard and Node-RED, we integrate LoRaWAN, MQTT, HTTP, and Modbus sources into a unified platform. This allows lighting data, energy consumption, and environmental data to be analyzed together and forwarded to existing administrative systems.
By default, we operate the platform on agreed infrastructure in German data centers.
Yes. We install and harden the IoT platform remotely on your provided infrastructure.
The timeline depends on the platform, device count, radio planning, data paths, integrations, and operating model. After the technical assessment, you receive a rollout plan with prerequisites, dependencies, and milestones.
Yes. We design multi-tenant platforms for companies and municipalities with multiple sites - whether Castrop-Rauxel, Herne, Recklinghausen, or Dortmund. Each location gets its own dashboards, access controls, and alerting profiles.
Regional IoT entry points
Further regional pages explain LoRaWAN, platform integration, system connectivity and managed operations for the respective business area.
IoT services, LoRaWAN and managed platforms for Herne
View regional serviceIoT services, LoRaWAN and managed platforms for Waltrop
View regional serviceIoT services, LoRaWAN and managed platforms for Oer-Erkenschwick
View regional serviceIoT services, LoRaWAN and managed platforms for Recklinghausen
View regional serviceNo risk: worst case, you leave with a clearer understanding of your project than before.


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