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ranch monitoring with robust radios

BearMar Preferred Service Area

There is a ton of experience with BearMar. This is a real site, made by a real person located in Central Texas, Richland Springs Texas to be exact. Because of this location, I can serve the following counties really easy with a reasonable drive : Brown, San Saba, Mills, McCullough, Llano, Coleman, Concho, Runnels, Kimble, Menard, Gillespie, Burnet and Lampasas. You can probably talk me into going further if you really wanted me to.

Founder of BearMar

Who am I – I’m Marlan Winter and I’m a long-time electrical engineer. I’ve designed big industrial electrical components all the way down to tiny tiny microprocessors. I still keep my foot into the microprocessor world today, but the LoRaWAN is what I’m really enjoying – and I think I can really help people with it.

I have 9 patents to my name, so you can look me up on uspto.gov if you want.

How Did BearMar Get Into LoRa/LoRaWAN

I moved to Richland Springs in 2020 and I read up on Helium Network and I thought I would get rich from mining Helium, but that didn’t pan out.

What did happen is that I discovered the magic of LoRaWAN (based on LoRa – which is the same radio but an entirely different use case).

I started using LoRaWAN to monitor everything, and I do mean everything. What this means is that I have paid the price in lots of pain in knowing what can work, what doesn’t, and I’m several years ahead of most people.

BearMar Uses LoRaWAN – More than just “giving advice”

  • AirBnb houses (temp, power, humidity, thermostat, occupancy, front & back doors)
  • Our orchard ( I monitor soil moisture – close to the surface – to help with watering )
  • Our aquaponics system – this is trickier
    • real time pH
    • water temperature
    • trigger and monitor the pump and dump system
    • greenhouse temp and humidity
  • Water Tank Levels
  • Our water softener
  • (And a special project to help a friend do sub-billing for his trailer park – legal in Texas)

I’ve been engineering since 1987 so I’m no stranger to hard technical conversations. Plus, I grew up ranching in Nebraska. While that is eons of years in the past, I have a soft spot for ag.

If you have several co-located assets, BearMar can help you monitor them. I’ve even designed a “pasture tough” base station platform that has even done a go-round with the raccoons, so I’m putting even more toughening into it all the time. I’d encourage you to give me a call, or just start with the contact page. I’ll answer really quickly if you give me a phone number.

BearMar and LoRa

BearMar.com is an authorized STOCKING distributor of several extremely clever LoRa radio based devices which can replace EXPENSIVE cable runs and/or EXPENSIVE SCADA Radios. In particular 4-20mA current loops and RS485 data collectors. This is not the technology that makes sense for agriculture, but this is a GREAT technology and due to my knowledge in LoRaWAN, I’m uniquely positioned to help with the oil patch.

Mounting Brackets and other important add-ons to LoRaWAN/IoT installations

As part of LoRa, BearMar.com has expertise in Freecad 3D drawing and then rendering those drawing into 3D printed materials. This doesn’t sound that useful until you consider that I can make a nice mounting bracket for just about any situation. I have stocking materials for PETG, PCTG, and even ABS. PCTG is my preferred plastic and is very tough.

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