Stewarton Weather — under the hood

The same backbone that hosts client sites also powers a live weather network — sensors, automation, and dashboards.

Hardware

Arm server
Ecowitt / sensors: soil moisture, lightning, humidity, temp
Valves & irrigation tied to sensor thresholds

Software

CumulusMX + custom overlays
MQTT bus → dashboards (Grafana) and alerts
Automations for watering and uptime checks

Topology

Edge: Scotland (data ingest & control)
Prod: London (primary), Iceland (secondary)
Backups: Versioned to off-site storage
Carbon: MyForest tracking

Built to be quiet, efficient, and recoverable.