Remote data collection,
on your own terms.
CloudWorks is the remote data collection and management platform from Cape Digital Solutions. Low cost 4G and NB-IoT dataloggers, free platform software, and open integration into your own database, SCADA system or website.
A complete platform, not just a logger
Hardware, server, administration software and integration paths — all designed to work together, and all of the software supplied free of charge.
The remote data collection and management platform
Welcome to the CloudWorks remote data collection and management platform. The CloudWorks platform, and its associated hardware, was developed by Cape Digital Solutions to allow users to manage and collect data from a variety of remote applications.
This data could be streaming in real time, or collected periodically as with low power battery systems. So whether you are collecting data for your own use, or providing a value added service on top of the data you collect, this system is ideal for you.
Administrators run it, clients see their data
The CloudWorks suite is three applications with two kinds of user. Your administrators run the system with CloudWorks Integration (the server) and CloudWorks Console (the complete Windows application: logger set-up over Bluetooth or remotely, users and all the data). Your clients sign in to CloudWorks Online from a browser and see the data from their own dataloggers - and administrators can use Online too, for almost everything bar Bluetooth configuration.
Console and Integration are installed with the CloudWorks Installer and update themselves; CloudWorks Online runs in a browser, hosted by us or on your own server. All of it is supplied free of charge. Which one do I need?
37+ years of hardware design experience
Cape Digital Solutions has 37+ years of experience in hardware design. Our focus is to provide low cost, feature rich hardware using some of the best technologies available.
We are constantly developing new additions to this platform to open up a greater range of applications to which CloudWorks can be deployed.
Own the platform, not just the data
Why outsource your data collection when you can run the entire system yourself and save huge costs? CloudWorks has been designed to be simple to implement and easy to manage.
To facilitate a trial system, we will open a database for you on our servers, to which you can connect your own equipment. This allows you to test the system before committing to this technology. We also have a limited access demonstration system you can evaluate.
Database, Modbus TCP/IP, FTP or REST API
Integration of CloudWorks data into your own system (SCADA, website, billing platform and so on) can be achieved in four ways: direct database access, Modbus TCP/IP, FTP upload or a REST API connection.
Pick whichever suits your platform — query the database directly, pull real time values over Modbus TCP/IP, receive files on your own FTP server, or request data over HTTP. All the database structures and communications protocols are published.
curl -H "X-API-Key: $KEY" "https://myserver:18501/api/getDeviceData?deviceCode=2308180006&summarise=true"
# JSON datalog, hourly averaged, ready for your agent
# GET reads · POST creates, modifies and deletesREST API, API manual and an AI reference file
The REST API embedded in CloudWorks Integration is designed to be driven by software or by an AI agent, so you can build custom functions on top of your own data — automated reporting, anomaly hunting, natural-language questions about a site, or scheduled housekeeping.
Two references ship with it: the CloudWorks API User Manual for developers, and a purpose-written AI reference file in markdown — give it to your model or agent and it knows the endpoints, parameters, validation rules, time-zone model and safety rules for this platform.
Ideal for these applications
If it produces a pulse, a 4-20mA signal or a Modbus register, CloudWorks can log it, transmit it and store it.
Water & energy meter reading
Pulse or digital meters, including GWF ECO.
Volume & consumption
Totalised consumption with time and date stamps.
Flow measurement
Instantaneous and profiled flow from 4-20mA or Modbus.
Level measurement
Reservoirs, sumps, boreholes and process vessels.
Pressure measurement
Night flow and pressure logging for leak detection.
4-20mA sensor measurement
Isolated loop inputs with 24V loop powering.
Farming soil sensors
Moisture, EC and temperature over RS-485.
Modbus systems
Two-wire RS485 Modbus RTU to almost any instrument.
Billing systems
Feed metered consumption straight into your billing platform.
Data analysis systems
Query MySQL directly or export from the Console.
Water balancing
Zone inflow versus outflow across a distribution network.
Tank & reservoir volume
Tank tables convert level readings into volume.
Choose your communications technology
Every logger shares the same rugged housing, Bluetooth setup, touch button diagnostics and alkaline battery design — pick the network that suits the site.
4G / LTE
Cirrus range
Modbus, Loop and Dual Loop variants on GPRS/EDGE/LTE/4G. The right choice as 3G networks are switched off.
View Cirrus loggers
NB-IoT
Nimbus range
Low power wide area coverage that reaches into chambers, basements and rural sites where LTE struggles.
View Nimbus loggers
Sensors
Sensors & accessories
External 4G/LTE antennas for signal-restricted sites, plus SenseCap soil sensors for moisture, EC and temperature.
View accessoriesTwo kinds of user, three applications
Your administrators run the system. Your clients see their data. Each has the right tool for the job — and all of it is supplied free of charge.
Installed on Windows
Run the system
Two Windows applications, both installed with the CloudWorks Installer.
In a browser
See the data, from anywhere
Nothing to install. Your clients sign in from a browser and see the live status, charts and history of their own dataloggers — and nothing else. Administrators can sign in too, for almost everything the Console does.
Build a service on our backbone
The CloudWorks system was designed to provide companies with the ability to extract data from remote devices and use this information to build value added services — billing systems, management of infrastructure, remote monitoring and many other applications. Our aim is to provide you with all the tools needed to achieve this goal.
Cape Digital Solutions is a hardware manufacturing company and our primary interest is the supply of the remote hardware used on this platform. In order for you to actually build a business on our backbone of products, we provide all the necessary software free of charge. This includes the software that runs on the server as well as all the system management tools needed. Regular updates and improvements are also always provided free of charge.
Integration into your own systems can be achieved in four ways: direct database access, Modbus TCP/IP, FTP upload or a REST API connection — or by talking directly to the remote hardware through a communications channel.
See it working first
Open CloudWorks Online on our demonstration system and sign in with demo / demo - a live, read-only system with nothing to install. It is what your own clients would see.