Remote environmental monitoring
We help not-for-profits, small businesses and government agencies see what's happening in the places hardest to reach — even remote sites with no road, where the only way in is on foot. Every site is different, so we build low-cost gear that's repairable in the field — cameras, sensor networks and ecological data that keep working through every weather condition, long after you've walked back out.
From a single field camera to full weather stations fitted with custom sensors — we design, deploy and maintain it, then turn the raw data into something you can act on.
Solar-powered cameras built to survive heat, snow, ice and flood, capturing imagery from sites with no road and no power — with a weight budget measured in backpacks.
Rainfall, snow level, water level and temperature logged and pushed to your dashboard or accessible via API.
From dense bush to alpine snowlines, our work spans some of the most remote country in Victoria. Many are ongoing — sites we've monitored for years and still run today, alongside the people who care for them.
Cameras at hard-to-reach alpine sites feeding real observations into the Mountain Safety Collective's hazard forecasts — giving forecasters a view of snowpack and conditions in country they can't get to every day.
Cameras publishing real-time snow conditions at Mount Buffalo so visitors know what to expect before they make the drive up — and watching the car parks fill, so day-trippers and parks staff can see when it's time to turn around or wait.
Monitoring stations at remote locations with no vehicle access — reached on foot through summer and by snow touring once the snow sets in — keeping data flowing year-round from places almost no one can get to.
A single station has now watched the Victorian Alps for more than five years straight — through metre-deep snow, 40° summers and the Black Summer bushfires — capturing one continuous record of how high country recovers across every season.
We can react fast — getting cameras up that stream conditions back to displaced residents, so a community ordered to leave can still see what's happening to their town when no one's allowed in.
And yes this image is fake, a couple of real images have been merged so the helicopter was more than a dot.Our gear keeps recording through 45° heat, blizzards, floods and the fiercest wind — in places a person can only reach a few times a year. And we're always adapting it to the conditions no one saw coming.
"They put a camera somewhere we visit a couple of times a year and it just keeps working. For the first time we can see the conditions every day without the 8 hour return trip."
Working alongside not-for-profits, volunteers & government
About trk.app
trk.app was founded by engineers who live in the outdoors and were tired of driving days to swap a memory card. We build monitoring systems rugged enough to leave behind — and patient enough to capture change that unfolds over seasons, not seconds.
Every system is tested against the conditions it will actually face — heat, dust, water, distance. Then we work the problems that mother nature throws at us.
Open formats, full ownership and reporting you can hand straight to a funder or regulator — plus API access to pull your data straight into your own tools.
Much of the best monitoring is done by volunteers, so our gear is simple enough for anyone to check, swap and maintain on a working bee. We volunteer too, but know we can't do everything.
We believe in making the most of what already exists. In the environments our equipment faces, the age of a component often matters less than the time it has spent exposed to the weather.
That's why many of our systems run on recycled laptop batteries sourced from a local school. They add a little extra weight, but they've never been subjected to harsh outdoor conditions. By reusing them, we reduce e-waste, lower costs, and give batteries a second life.
Start a project
Tell us where you need eyes on the ground. We'll scope the monitoring, the logistics and the budget — it's never off the shelve (even when it is).
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