{"id":579,"date":"2025-11-12T19:31:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/?p=579"},"modified":"2025-11-12T19:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T01:31:49","slug":"ubiquiti-superlink-and-usl-environmental-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"Ubiquiti SuperLink and USL Environmental Sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First off, lets start with a warning; If you order your SuperLink and Sensors from the Ubiquiti US store, it&#8217;s possible that you may get one of the units or in our case, all the sensors as the EU model and then a US SuperLink and well&#8230; they don&#8217;t work together.  You can identify if you end up with an EU sensor or device via a small sticker on the box like this;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/76b383cf-c6df-489c-bad7-99aea017c8f36965456673938668556-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/76b383cf-c6df-489c-bad7-99aea017c8f36965456673938668556-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-576\" style=\"width:279px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/76b383cf-c6df-489c-bad7-99aea017c8f36965456673938668556-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/76b383cf-c6df-489c-bad7-99aea017c8f36965456673938668556-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/76b383cf-c6df-489c-bad7-99aea017c8f36965456673938668556-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/76b383cf-c6df-489c-bad7-99aea017c8f36965456673938668556-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/76b383cf-c6df-489c-bad7-99aea017c8f36965456673938668556-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But once you get the right sensors &#8211; Kudos to UBNT for overnighting us replacements &#8211; they work very quickly, just pull the battery tab and they come up.  So far so good, they&#8217;ve been pretty reliable connection wise for us and we&#8217;ve been testing them through concrete filled CMU w\/ steel and we still have a reliable connection with reliable monitoring:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-12-at-7.26.34-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"634\" data-id=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-12-at-7.26.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-12-at-7.26.34-PM.png 760w, https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-12-at-7.26.34-PM-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-12-at-7.26.34-PM-360x300.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-12-at-7.26.57-PM-scaled.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"369\" data-id=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-12-at-7.26.57-PM-1024x369.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-12-at-7.26.57-PM-1024x369.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-12-at-7.26.57-PM-300x108.png 300w, https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-12-at-7.26.57-PM-768x277.png 768w, https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-12-at-7.26.57-PM-1536x554.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-12-at-7.26.57-PM-2048x739.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-12-at-7.26.57-PM-500x180.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Overview: What is SuperLink?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SuperLink platform from Ubiquiti is a new wireless sensor protocol &amp; gateway ecosystem designed to integrate with the UniFi OS \/ UniFi Protect environment and deliver IoT sensor connectivity with enterprise-grade range, latency, and battery longevity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key technical highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>SuperLink is designed for multi-kilometre line-of-sight range, enabling large-scale deployments (industrial, commercial, smart-buildings) rather than just short-range BLE sensors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ultra-low latency communications, tailored for security \/ alarm \/ automation sensor use-cases.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Efficient power management: supports long battery life endpoints (key for sensors in remote\/undisturbed locations).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Integrated into UniFi OS: the gateway is adopted into UniFi Protect, which means your existing UniFi-based infrastructure (if you have one) can leverage the sensors and gateway.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For deployments: the gateway supports dual radios \u2013 Bluetooth (for legacy BLE sensors) plus the proprietary sub-GHz SuperLink radio for the new sensors.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In short: if you are managing facilities (data center racks, network closets, remote MSP sites) and you need environment-monitoring (temperature, humidity, water leak, light) with wide coverage and minimal wiring, the SuperLink + USL-Environmental combo offers an interesting path.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, lets start with a warning; If you order your SuperLink and Sensors from the Ubiquiti US store, it&#8217;s possible that you may get one of the units or in our case, all the sensors as the EU model &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/?p=579\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottharvanek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}