BioBox · Autonomous field station
Ground truth,streamed live from anywhere on Earth.
BioBox is the API that lets companies plug in and stream nature from anywhere. A dozen environmental variables, measured on the ground, updated every second. No survey team, no eleven-month wait for a PDF.
Starlink uplink
360° optics + 4-ch acoustics
Edge compute + battery
The trust crisis
Ground truthing fixes the trust problem in nature-based solutions.
Buyers, auditors and regulators all ask the same question: how do you know? BioBox answers it with continuous measurement taken at the site.
Every record is time-stamped, position-stamped and signed on the station. Your claim can be checked rather than taken on faith.
Either the hectare got louder, wetter and busier, or it didn't. The sensor settles it.
Most claims come from proxies like canopy greenness and land-cover class. Fine for screening, thin the moment someone contests the number.
A survey team visits for a day, once or twice a year. The other 363 days get filled in by assumption.
The party paid for the outcome usually commissions the report that grades it. Honest work inherits the suspicion anyway.
You can't re-run last spring. Without a continuous record there is nothing to check.
Why not satellite?
Orbit shows you the whole site. It can't tell you whether the map is true.
Satellite is good at extent and change detection, and we use it. But nothing at 500 km can hear a nightjar, smell a soil or count a bee entering a nest. Without a measured point to check it against, an index is an estimate wearing a colour ramp.
The 52-page report
Remote-sensed indices, one site visit, an interpretation. Arrives as a PDF, months after the season it describes.
Fieldwork: April 2025 · Delivered: March 2026
Update frequency: annual
Opened by: three people
The live feed
Every variable recorded on site, signed at the station, streamed to your systems as it happens.
Update frequency: continuous
Consumed by: your dashboard, your auditor, your buyer
Challenge a model and you are arguing about a place. Challenge a signed recording and you can replay it.
Your verifier isn't the problem. The annual snapshot they get handed is. Give them the live feed and they can check the thing rather than interpret it.
Coverage
How one mast speaks for two thousand hectares.
A station measures one place exactly. Placement and pairing are what let that place stand for the rest.
Stratified, not convenient
Stations are sited against the site's strata: habitat type, treatment block, disturbance gradient. Density follows how varied the site is, not how large. A uniform block needs fewer masts than a mosaic of the same area.
Paired with a control
Every treatment station has an untreated reference measured the same way on the same schedule. The difference between them is the claim. Absolute numbers drift with weather and season; the gap between paired plots doesn't.
Anchor, not rival
Satellite covers the whole area and knows nothing about any of it. BioBox knows a handful of points exactly. Feed the ground record into the index and the wall-to-wall map becomes an extrapolation with known error, checked continuously against measured truth.
Siting
You don't get to pick the good bit.
Signing a record proves it wasn't edited. It doesn't prove the mast was pointed somewhere honest. So placement follows a published protocol, not a preference.
Locations are selected against site strata by a documented rule and shared with your verifier before install, not after the numbers come in.
Coordinates are set at install and GNSS-stamped on every record. A station that moves is visible in the data.
Reference plots are chosen by the same rule as treatment plots, so the comparison isn't curated either.
The station list and siting plan travel with the data. They are part of the record, not an internal document.
One station · one API
Every stream of evidence from a single mast.
Every BioBox ships with the full sensor suite. Classification runs on the station, and both raw and derived data stay available to you.
Detections are scored, not asserted. Precision and recall are reported per species group, a human-verified subset ships with every deployment, and the raw audio is retained: any detection can be replayed and overturned.
Integration
Plug in and the site starts reporting to your stack.
One REST call for history, one stream for right now. Nothing to install on your side.
# pull the last hour from a station curl https://api.verdantmetrics.com/v1/stations/VM-C1/observations \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VM_API_KEY" \ -d "variables=acoustic,soil_co2_flux,bee_entries" \ -d "since=2026-08-05T04:00:00Z"
const feed = new EventSource(
"https://api.verdantmetrics.com/v1/stations/VM-C1/stream"
);
feed.onmessage = (e) => render(JSON.parse(e.data));- Webhooks when a variable crosses a threshold you set
- Signed CSV exports for auditors and verifiers
- Raw audio, frames and soil traces on request
- Portfolio queries across every station you run
{
"station": "VM-C1",
"site": "Restoration block C",
"window": "2026-08-05T04:00:00Z/PT1H",
"observations": {
"acoustic_diversity": { "value": 2.41, "detections": 1284 },
"species": ["Erithacus rubecula", "Certhia familiaris"],
"soil_co2_flux": { "value": 3.62, "unit": "umol/m2/s" },
"soil_moisture": { "value": 31.4, "unit": "pct_vwc" },
"infiltration": { "value": 42.0, "unit": "mm/hr" },
"bee_entries": { "value": 118, "unit": "count/day" }
},
"provenance": {
"method": "in_situ",
"signature": "sha256:9f2c…e41b",
"raw_available": true
}
}Ownership
It's your site. It's your data.
You own every observation the station makes, raw and derived, for as long as you want it. We hold it so you can query it, not so we can keep it.
Every record belongs to you: audio, frames, soil traces, derived metrics and the signatures over them. We claim no ownership and no resale rights over your site's data.
Full archive export on request, any time, in open formats. Signed CSV for auditors, raw files for anyone who wants to check the work themselves.
End the contract and the record leaves with you. No hostage clause, no retroactive paywall on your own history, no deletion of a baseline you spent years building.
Sites with people on them need care. Retention windows and on-station masking for imagery and audio are set per deployment, so the station follows the site's privacy rules rather than its own.
Who we work with
Three groups, one question: can you prove it on the ground?
Whoever asked you for the number — a regulator, a buyer, a board — the answer has to survive someone checking it.
Environmental engineers
Consultancies and assessment teams who win work on the strength of their evidence. A station lets you bid continuous ground truth against firms still quoting seasonal surveys, and hold the account for years instead of re-winning it each season. Deployed under your name, reported in your format.
Companies investing in nature
Restoration developers, credit buyers and corporates funding outcomes on land they don't operate. You are paying for a change on a hectare you will rarely stand on. The feed is how you watch it happen instead of reading about it later.
Primary resources
Mining, energy, forestry and agriculture, where operations sit next to sensitive habitat and the site-level evidence burden is heaviest. Rehabilitation, offset and closure commitments all get measured rather than asserted.
BioBox is an evidence source, not a certification. We don't issue credits or sign off disclosures. We produce the site-level record your methodology, verifier and assurance provider ask for, in a form they can query and replay.
For environmental consultancies
Write API calls instead of going in the mud.
BioBox is available to engineering and assessment firms on resale. You deploy it, you price it, you keep the client. We keep the mast running.
Resell under your name
The station goes in as part of your scope, not ours. Your brand, your report, your relationship with the client. We stay behind the instrument.
Your pricing, your margin
You set what the deployment is worth in your market and hold the contract. Partner rates and terms on request, structured so the monitoring line earns its place in your proposal.
Query, don't commute
A REST call replaces a field day. Your team spends its hours on interpretation, method and sign-off, which is the part a client will always pay a specialist for, and stops spending them driving to a quadrat.
Bids where continuous evidence is the differentiator, sites too remote to visit on a sensible schedule, and multi-year monitoring commitments you'd rather not staff: that's where this earns you work you can't currently quote for.
Deployment
If Starlink reaches it, we can measure it.
No grid, no problem
Solar array and battery run the station year-round. No mains, no trenching, no generator runs.
No backhaul, no problem
Low-earth-orbit uplink. Peatland, mangrove, mine rehabilitation or high-altitude reforestation all run the same station and the same feed.
No field team, no problem
Classification runs on the station and we manage it remotely. The only site visit is the install.
Stop defending the report.
Show them the sensor.
Tell us about the site and what you need to prove. You get back a deployment plan, a data schema and a date.