Datacake: Managed LoRaWAN networking, dashboards and alerts for sensor fleets

Datacake combines a managed LoRaWAN network server with device templates, dashboards, alerts and data exports for monitoring sensor fleets.

Summary

Best for
Integrators assembling hosted monitoring services from supported sensors and gateways.
Less suited to
Projects requiring a self-hosted platform or local control without cloud connectivity.
Deployment
Hosted platform with managed LoRaWAN networking and mobile applications.
Data in
LoRaWAN uplinks, MQTT and HTTP data; decoded outputs through webhooks and APIs.
Pricing
Five-device free tier; paid capacity, white-label and support plans are published.

Overview

Datacake is a hosted IoT platform for collecting sensor measurements and presenting them through dashboards, alerts and reports. Its platform description combines device templates with a managed LoRaWAN network server, user management and application tools. That combination covers more of a monitoring project than packet forwarding alone: sensor data can move from a gateway through a decoder into named measurement fields and visual displays. The company also provides MQTT, HTTPS webhook and REST interfaces for external systems. Its published use cases include environmental conditions, cold-chain monitoring, building measurements and energy-related appliance monitoring.

Offering

The managed LoRaWAN network server accepts gateways using Semtech UDP Packet Forwarder or LoRa Basics Station. Datacake documents regional operation including EU868, US915, AU915 and AS923, with multiple regions managed within one organisation. Its template catalogue contains payload decoders, starter dashboards and downlink definitions where the device firmware supports them. The service can forward decoded uplinks through HTTPS webhooks or a TLS-protected MQTT connection. Datacake explicitly presents standalone network-server use as an option, so customers can use the managed radio-network service while placing their main application and data processing elsewhere.

Products and platforms

  1. Datacake IoT Platform

    Monitoring software

    Dashboards, alert rules, reports, multi-tenancy and data exports.3

  2. Datacake mobile application

    Mobile monitoring

    iOS and Android access to dashboards, sensor onboarding and push alerts.3

Technology

The application platform adds dashboards, a visual rule engine, reports and user access to the decoded sensor data. Rules support thresholds and schedules, with actions including notifications, webhooks and device downlinks. Multi-tenancy separates customer accounts, while white-label features provide custom branding and domains. Datacake also describes scheduled CSV and JSON exports and backups. Its mobile applications for iOS and Android expose dashboards and alerts and support sensor onboarding using a camera to scan device information. These functions serve integrators delivering repeatable monitoring systems to several customers as well as teams operating their own sensor estate.

Markets

Datacake's pricing page advertises a free allowance for the first five devices and publishes paid plans for larger deployments. The managed network server and gateway connections are included without a separate per-gateway fee. Platform capacity, white-label options and enhanced support have their own commercial terms. The current site publishes a separate branded mobile-app offering for customers that need their own app-store identity. Its network-server documentation also explains migration from other LoRaWAN services using existing device identifiers and keys. These are distinct choices: network transport, hosted monitoring capacity and a branded customer application are separate parts of the offering.

Company

Datacake's company page identifies Lukas Klein and Simon Kemper as its founders in 2016. Kemper is CEO and Klein CTO; the company describes a distributed international team headquartered in Vreden, Germany. Its legal imprint names DATACAKE GmbH and gives the address Von-Siemens-Strasse 20, 48691 Vreden, with registration HRB16987. The company reports backing from Cantaloupe and Predli and total funding of €1.2 million, without identifying that figure as a new funding round. Its current team page names engineering, customer support and commercial staff and presents direct access to the people operating the platform.

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References

  1. About Datacake and its founders (opens in a new tab)
  2. Datacake legal imprint (opens in a new tab)
  3. Datacake IoT platform (opens in a new tab)
  4. Datacake LoRaWAN Network Server (opens in a new tab)
  5. Datacake pricing (opens in a new tab)

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