From Theory to Proof: SAF Tehnika Puts mioty® to the Test

At SAF Tehnika, we don't just speculate on how our wireless networks perform: we measure it. And just as importantly, we're transparent about the real-world trade-offs.

We teamed up with Riga Technical University (RTU) to deploy around 3,000 wireless sensors across campus buildings and dormitories, creating one of the largest active mioty® protocol networks in operation today.

At the mioty® Global Summit 2026 in Berlin, our project manager Dr. Edgars Spārniņš took the stage to share the quantitative proof, and the real engineering compromises, behind the rollout.

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Key Takeaways

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Real Data, Real Results: Live CO₂, temperature, and humidity data now feeds RTU's machine learning research and helps the university optimize energy efficiency and indoor climate campus-wide.

The Pilot Comparison: We ran mioty® against our standard Aranet radio protocol head to head, close to 500 sensors on each side, in matching dorm buildings. Under identical conditions, mioty® delivered orders of magnitude lower packet loss.

The Honest Trade-Off: mioty® let us scale with far fewer gateways, but the protocol draws more power. In this deployment, mioty sensors saw a shorter battery life than our standard Aranet radio sensors running the same hardware.

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This is what we mean by proving performance rather than assuming it. The RTU deployment gave us real numbers, not projections, and a clear picture of what mioty® delivers and what it costs to get there. That's the kind of data we want behind every decision we make, and the kind we're glad to share.

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Watch Dr. Spārniņš's full presentation

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