IoT Solutions: Sensor Management
Environment Monitoring
Smart buildings can help conserve costs on heating, air conditioning and power while also helping to reduce the impact on the environment.
Using FCL Components' environment sensors, building operators are given accurate measures of the ambient conditions, so they can monitor conditions and optimize heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) controls, automatically, for maximum comfort. Such healthy environments increase output efficiency in occupiers while also ensuring they are more content, which only leads to better performance.
Additionally, FCL Components has developed a CO2 sensor which can sense all the parameters of the regular environment sensor plus CO2 levels. CO2 levels are also considered as indicator for viral particles, enabling monitoring of airborne infectious materials.
FCL Components environment monitoring solution enables monitoring of various environment variables:
- CO2
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Barometric pressure
- Illumination
- 3-axis acceleration
- Sound levels
How does it work?
FCL Components environment sensors do not require any cabling, when using batteries, and are easy to install by just fixing the sensors to the facility walls. CO2 sensors are powered by USB C cable due to its battery consumption.Through adding nodes, a Mesh network is formed, and enables data to be transferred through the network. The nodes act as routers, by adding a Gateway the network is complete.
It is easy to add sensors when the mesh network is already available through FCL Components' asset tracking solution or eco-system partner smart lighting. Just add the sensor and switch it on.
The benefits of the Mesh Network are:- Scalability
- Self Healing
- No single point failure
- Hop by hop acknowledgement
- Extremely low interference
The dashboard, the data collected needs visualization, FCL Components has a fast eco-system in which various partners are available to visualize the data in a dashboard system.
Dashboard systems can be customized to accommodate exactly the data required.
Expanding
The FCL Components IoT solutions are easy to extend upon when the network has been formed through the anchors any other FCL Components or FCL Components eco-partner Solution can always be added. By example environment monitoring or indoor navigation.The network can also be set-up through eco partner smart lighting system, in that set-up the lighting fixtures form the network.
