Employment of the Waggle Stack in urban or developed area is easily managed due to the availability of power and WiFi. When deploying the Waggle Stack to a remote, non-urban environment where power, internet or safety systems exist, the challenge becomes powering the system, remaining operational, connected and safe to environmental conditions or events.

To solve this problem, we implemented a self-organizing, autonomous power generation, control and management system deriving power from solar and wind. Because of potential for extreme conditions such as winter cold, summer heat, and exposure to fire and other natural events, we built in climate control to guard against deviations in temperature that would force the system to a non-operational state. The main goal of this system is to provide continuous power and remain operational 24 x 7 x 365, regardless of the environmental conditions. A secondary goal is to integrate seamlessly into a natural environment with minimal disruption.

The system will power the Waggle Stack as an autonomous node allowing for the collection of environment data. The system will also provide operational data to monitor the operational status to determine if maintenance is required. Two nodes were developed, one high power and the other low power. Ends of the spectrum were tested with the idea that the more efficient, smaller and inexpensive the system can be, will provide a less invasive environmental impact and make it easier to deploy.