SiteHive Hexanode Dust
The SiteHive Hexanode Dust Standalone and Hexanode Noise+ Dust Device is designed to monitor dust in real-time with unmatched precision. It integrates seamlessly into your environmental monitoring workflow, whether you’re focused on regulatory compliance, site management, or proactive community engagement.
With next-gen technology, these devices provide actionable insights into dust events and trends, helping you take control of your monitoring program.
Next-gen Hexanode Dust devices are accurate, reliable, and adaptable.
Capture real-time PM2.5 and PM10, even in humid conditions.
Event-triggered images, audio, and DoA mapping give you full visibility.
Can be used standalone or paired with noise monitoring.
Remote updates and connectivity ensure consistent, high-quality data.
Direction of Arrival (DoA) Mapping
Real-time PM2.5 and PM10
Dust monitors measure airborne particulate matter, providing continuous, real-time insights into site conditions.
The SiteHive Hexanode tracks key particle sizes, including PM2.5 and PM10, delivering precise data on airborne particulate matter. This allows you to monitor trends, identify sources of dust, and take action to manage site impacts effectively at all times.
PM10 - Particles smaller than 10 micrometers; often from construction or earthworks.
PM2.5 - Finer particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers; can impact human health at higher levels.
Real-Time Tracking - Hexanode devices report every 15 minutes, giving a real-time view of dust conditions.
Adapts to humid conditions
The SiteHive Hexanode Dust Standalone and Dust+Noise Device uses a built-in Temperature Humidity Gauge (THG) along with an advanced software modulator to detect and correct for humidity in real-time.
This ensures that moisture in the air - which can otherwise be measured as particulate matter - does not skew your readings.
Even in conditions with high relative humidity or low dew points, your dust measurements remain accurate and reliable.
For additional context, SiteHive also provides weather data automatically.
Nearby or on-site weather data from Open Weather Map, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) or your own weather station is integrated directly into your dashboard, giving you a complete picture of conditions when reviewing dust activity.
Event-triggered images & audio
Understanding the cause of dust events is critical. SiteHive Hexanode Devices make this easy by automatically capturing images and short audio clips whenever an event is recorded. This provides valuable context alongside your monitoring data, so you can quickly identify what’s happening on site.
Here’s what’s included with every exceedance:
Time-stamped image - A still image is captured at the moment of the event, giving you a clear visual record of site conditions.
6 seconds of audio - An audio clip is recorded for each event, including 3 seconds before the exceedance and 3 seconds during. This allows you to hear what was happening at the time.
Integrated insights - Images and audio are stored directly in the SiteHive software alongside your dust data. This makes it fast and straightforward to review events and determine whether they were caused by site activity or external factors.
AI Audio Classifier (Enviro Pro) - The SiteHive Hexanode automatically analyses and classifies noise events in real time, comparing captured audio to a comprehensive database to instantly identify likely sources. Each event is clearly labelled and colour-coded, making it easy to see whether the exceedance is project-related or external.
Direction of Arrival (DoA) Mapping
The SiteHive Hexanode doesn’t just measure dust and noise - it helps you understand their origins.
Direction of Arrival (DoA) mapping links dust and noise readings with wind direction data to pinpoint the likely source and track how activity is moving across your site.
How it works:
Every 15 minutes, the Hexanode matches particulate matter (PM) readings with real-time wind direction data.
This produces a DoA graph that shows the concentration of dust by direction, expressed as a percentage over the selected timeframe.
The device’s orientation and directional sensors ensure data is aligned correctly, giving you an accurate picture of source locations.
In the SiteHive Dashboard:
Map Indicators: The dashboard map shows the dominant directions for dust and noise activity.
Detailed Visualisations: Clicking on a monitoring point brings up a full DoA visualisation, providing granular insights into the source of activity.
Media Integration: DoA can be paired with event images and audio, helping you quickly see not only when something happened, but also where it came from.
With DoA, you can go beyond just seeing levels - you can understand and manage the actual sources of dust and noise impacting your site.