News

August 22, 2025

New Products

We are now pleased to announce that we are now supporting BSWA Sound Level meters with our all IoT noise monitoring solutions.

A complete IoT noise monitoring package is now available for $6,500 plus GST. This system comprises a Type 1 BSWA 308 sound level meter, Joey and a portable environmental monitoring case. The annual subscription is $720 plus GST covering the mobile connection and the web site data store, and trigger event messages..

With the BSWA we have included two new monitoring programs.

Standard Operation Mode comprises 14 user configurable metrics comprising any combination of Filter (A,B,C,Z), Detector(fast, slow, impulse), Mode(Max, Min, Peak, Leq, LIeq, LN01, …LN10). Where LN1 to LN10 may be set to the desired statistical value, i.e. L10, L90 etc.
Filter Program Mode This mode provides the monitoring statistics over a user selectable frequency band, i.e 10Hz to 500Hz. This can be desirable say to just measure low frequency noise from industry or a ambient survey where insect noise is to be eliminated.

Additionally the new Joey programs now also supports:

the MPPT charger and reports solar metrics
Seeed studio SenseCap weather stations

As with before, all sensors, sound level meters are configured on the woopwoop site. To keep like easy, the BSWA default setting is the same standard profile already adopted on the for existing sound level meters.

The WoopWoop.online website has also been updated and continues to provide rich real-time data from high quality sound level meters.

Our company has been developing noise monitoring systems since 2005 and the Joey IoT system was released to the public in 2019. Unfortunately, due to price pressures on components we have just made our first price increase since 2019. These increases are limited to the Environmental Monitoring cases. The Joey, subscriptions and the Sound Camera costs remain unchanged.

February 15, 2024

100 Million Noise Measurements

The WoopWoop system has now processed and stored in excess of 100 million individual noise level measurements since 2019. Thank you to all our valued clients who have entrusted their noise survey work to the Joey/WoopWoop platform.

For something a little different, here is an astrophotograph of a Joey in an environmental case with solar panel sitting high above the ground and dense grass on an old fence post. Lights from a passing plane and a few stars are visible.

December 1, 2023December 1, 2023

Sound Camera

We are happy to announce we have developed an App to run inside AXIS CCTV cameras to display noise levels in real-time. Initial deployment of this system is at a motor racing track to identify noisy vehicles and to address Council regulatory requirements. The camera can be configured to send videos, photos and audio following an exceedance of noise limits, (including the period before and after the exceedance event.)

All Joey units have the latest software release and are able to power the Sound Camera.

Optionally, the Joey Sound Camera App can be combined with the AXIS number plate recognition or the AXIS directional microphones to enable noise source tracking and identification

May 2, 2023May 2, 2023

Mangrove logger

This noise logger is situated in a coastal area within mangroves and only just above high-tide. Deployed January 2023 and having 100% uptime to the cloud. Special feature of this build is that all cables are retained within the steel tubes and the microphone is located on top of the supporting post. This ensures no solar deterioration of all important cables. The post is in two parts. The upper part (comprising all the electronics, case etc) is dropped into the lower part rammed deep into the marine sediments. Thus this ‘permanent’ solution is able to be relocated relatively easily.

April 26, 2023April 27, 2023

Network support

Some of our clients are asking about using Joey internationally. Joey was designed from the outset to be be used internationally and as at 26 April 2023, the following describes where in the world it can be used and carriers supported. Naturally, consult the coverage maps in these countries. If you are outside these places and or coverage maps, we also have a satellite solution.

For Joey system having a date of manufacture after April 2022.

Joey runs on 2G/3G and 4G LTE Cat 1, supporting LTE bands 1, 3, 7, 8, 20 & 28A (700, 800, 900, 1800, 2100, and 2600), as well as HSPA/WCDMA 3G bands 1 & 8 (900, 2100) and GSM 2G (900, 1800). This is designed to operate in selected countries in Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia (EMEAA), including Australia and New Zealand.

Support for United States, Canada, Mexico is available but will require Joey to be requested when ordering. Joey for United States, Canada, Mexico supports 4G LTE Cat M1. In the United States, Joey devices use LTE Cat M1 on the AT&T network. In all locations that AT&T supports LTE on their own network (not roaming and not a partner carrier), LTE Cat M1 should also be supported. In Mexico, AT&T Mexico is used for LTE Cat M1. In Canada, any of Rogers, Telus, or Bell is used for LTE Cat M1.

For Joey system having a date of manufacture before April 2022 and not upgraded to the latest modem.

Joey uses 2G/3G with frequency bands 850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100.

For comprehensive details of countries and carriers, refer to this supported network description.

September 5, 2022

Customer Case

Final testing on a sunny spring morning of two customer portable cases. In this instance the customer supplied their preferred cases and we installed our fitout. This works really well and does not affect the functionality .

August 23, 2022August 26, 2022

System testing

Here is a bunch of permanent loggers undergoing final full system testing on a sunny winter day here in Brisbane prior to deployment around a large industrial site. Congrats to the site and looking forward to demonstrating compliance with Licensing conditions.

August 1, 2022September 5, 2022

Quick Deploy

We are please to announce the quick deploy feature for all Joey systems. A QR code is generated on the web site and assigned to each Joey. Quick deploy will greatly simplify deployment of loggers and eliminate the requirements for only those registered on WoopWoop to deploy/assign the equipment.

The steps to use comprise:

On the WoopWoop website there will be a link to a unique QR code image and assigned to each Joey. The unique QRCode can be regenerated/replaced at any time for security purposes.
The QR code image may be downloaded, printed and laminated and retained in the environmental case.
When deploying a logger the person in the field will scan the QR code using their mobile phone and this will automatically create a site and assign the logger to the site. The mobile phone’s GPS sets deployment location.
The person deploying does not need to be registered nor logged into WoopWoop to undertake these tasks.
The person deploying the logger then turns the unit on, waits for confirmation on the phone.

July 1, 2022August 26, 2022

New Product Joey+

We are pleased to announce a new version of Joey, known as Joey+ (or Joey Plus). Joey plus adds a Power over Ethernet (PoE) RJ45 connector. This very exiting development will allow the Joey+ to be powered by the Ethernet cable.

Subscription costs for Joey+ are the same as for Joey. All new Joey units from 1 July 2022 can be upgraded to Joey+ by returning to the factory.

The use cases of Joey+ include:

connection to external modems (including satellite modems) for very remote installs,
connection to internet via ground networks (with mobile fallback)
connection to industrial networks
connection with industrial controllers
connection to PoE security camera networks, and
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