SYSTEM OPERATIONAL

PANHANDLE SENTINEL RESEARCH

Data Infrastructure for Ecosystem Diagnostics

THE CORE MISSION

A dedicated environmental research configuration studying a critical playa lake ecosystem boxed in by a regional wind infrastructure corridor. Utilizing a solar-powered LoRaWAN telemetry network across 480 acres, the system monitors hydrological recovery, microclimatic shifts, and wildlife restoration driven by a senior, pre-1959 water right allocation of 400 acre-feet per year.

480 Acres

Two dedicated research sites managing a 50-acre playa basin and highway instrumentation hub.

400 Acre-Feet

Protected annual senior water right priority used to study aquifer-to-surface recharge cycles.

Corridor Study

Real-time baseline tracking of microclimatic and environmental impacts on an isolated ecosystem.

WHAT WE MONITOR

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Hydrological Telemetry Array

Continuous water-level logging, flow velocity calculation, and aquifer resource tracking.

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A distributed sensor architecture capturing subsurface and surface hydrological variables in real time — engineered to expand across additional water resource nodes as the network grows.

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Ecological Data Capture

Multi-point wildlife tracking, migratory corridor diagnostics, and native habitat baseline mapping.

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Passive and active sensor arrays record biological activity across monitored corridors, building a continuous baseline dataset that supports long-term ecosystem trend analysis.

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Microclimate & Atmospheric Systems

Real-time microclimatic tracking, wind dynamics, and environmental impact logging within the wind farm corridor.

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Atmospheric sensors log temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed, and direction at multiple elevations — feeding environmental models and infrastructure performance analytics.

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Scalable Edge-Data Architecture

An expanding, solar-powered LoRaWAN and cellular network engineered to rapidly integrate new industrial sensors over time.

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Each node runs on-device inference at the edge, enabling real-time anomaly detection with no cloud dependency. The architecture is sensor-agnostic and designed to onboard new data streams as the system scope evolves.