SMART DEVICES

When it comes to smart building IoT sensors, plummeting prices, increased intelligence, and ease of deployment are making IoT worth it, no matter who you are.  Because we’ve reached a proverbial tipping point in IoT sensors and platforms, it’s wise for building owners and operators to understand the range of sensor types available on the market today.

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LIGHTING CONTROL

Enhance the sustainability of your lighting infrastructure and ensure everyone's safety.

Enable efficient, remote and wireless management with all the bells and whistles to meet the pressing challenges of today’s urban environments.

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PARKING MANAGEMENT

A complete and integrated parking management system delivers greater results. Our partner is a leader and has invested in conceptualizing and designing an entire smart parking ecosystem composed of an IoT management platform and connected objects that address the challenges of parking management and large-scale mobility.

Powered by Spatium – the industry’s most open and scalable parking management platform - the all-in-one smart parking solution does it all. By extracting value from your data, Spatium unlocks the full potential of your parking while upgrading your business offering and maximizing your earnings.

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CO2/AIR QUALITY

Although air quality has long been a concern for building owners and occupants, the ability to track CO2 and other air quality metrics has risen to the forefront in recent years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This collected air quality information can be fed into HVAC systems to automate the delivery of fresh outdoor air in areas where it is needed, while also allowing quarantine of specific areas that prevent air from being recirculated throughout the rest of the building.

 

WATER LEAK DETECTION

Even with high occupancy levels and on-site facilities staff continuously walking a building, water infiltration can go unnoticed for hours or days. The damage water can cause to a building and the associated IT/OT and furnishings within the facility can be enormous. There are several types of leak detection systems available on the market today, including standard water detection sensors, flow meters, and acoustic sensors. These IoT devices can be combined with temperature sensor data to identify and alert on areas of a building where pipe bursts may have occurred or may occur.

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THERMAL IMAGING

Thermal imaging cameras can provide a host of benefits, including identifying heating and cooling leak points, monitoring high-voltage systems, and even checking occupants' temperatures as they enter a building. Until recently, thermal imaging cameras were very expensive, and the thought of strategically placing sensors throughout a building was simply not cost-effective. However, technological advancements are lowering prices to the point where thermal cameras can be deployed. This type of data can be collected and combined with other building-centric data to preemptively identify aspects of a facility or its occupants that need addressing.

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AMBIENT LIGHTING

Smart lighting systems are great, but their true benefits become more apparent when combined with other IoT sensor data, such as occupancy levels and ambient light levels. The ability to use daylight as effectively as possible can help reduce energy costs by intelligently managing the amount of artificial lighting required in occupied areas of a building while bringing in outdoor lighting where needed. Doing so can create a comfortable environment for occupants while reducing lighting costs to the bare minimum.

 

DOOR/CABINET OPEN/CLOSE DETECTION

Protecting occupants and resources within a building can be a time-consuming and difficult challenge without technology designed to automate these monitoring processes. Sensors can be installed at critical doors, entryways, and cabinets to monitor opening and closing activities in real time. These sensors can either be hardwired into the network or leverage Wi-Fi or LTE/5G for connectivity back to a centralized monitoring/alerting platform. Historical information can then be used to retroactively investigate any instances where people or resources need to be located.

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COMBINING IoT DATA CREATES TREMENDOUS POTENTIAL

You may have noticed in these IoT sensor descriptions that greater visibility and insight can be gained by combining and analyzing information from multiple sensors as a single unified dataset. Doing so gives building owners the ability to make better-informed decisions. Keep this in mind as you determine which IoT sensors and platforms are right for your building or campus.

Our team can install intelligent management systems that allow you to monitor and control your lighting both on-site and remotely.

By leveraging sensors, networking and data collection, we can improve the efficiency and lower the cost of your operations with IoT.

For more than 15 years, our premier partner has established itself as a reliable provider of connected solutions and a committed facilitator of IoT implementation for smart infrastructure. With its expertise in controlling and remotely managing connected assets, including citywide streetlight deployments, as well as various connected devices and IoT sensors, it works closely with public- and private-sector managers to ensure the full implementation of scalable smart solutions.  They have completed hundreds of service projects in 15 countries and have earned the trust of world-class companies for their precise skills in developing simple, efficient, and certified connected objects.