Building monitoring hardware, designed in at specification stage.
Monitoring hardware designed in at specification stage for new commercial buildings: sensors, firmware, a radio plan for the building and the data pipeline to the operator. The engineering comes from our battery-powered LoRaWAN node, currently trialled in an operational plant room.
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The problem
A new building may fall under MEES, BACS requirements and, for higher-risk buildings, the Building Safety Act. Monitoring worked out early can be planned with the services design, with gateways, power and fixings considered together, while monitoring added later has to fit around what is already built. M&E teams often have no embedded engineering partner to turn a monitoring requirement into hardware. We would work with you on what the building needs to measure, then design the sensing hardware and plan the radio coverage inside the building. How readings reach a building management system or the operator's own tools would be agreed with you. Batteries and fixings are easier to plan before ceilings are closed than after.
What we'd build
Sensing hardware and radio coverage designed into the building
Sensor boards for the parameters a building needs, with a radio plan worked out against the building and a pipeline to the operator. This is design work we would do with you, not a catalogue product. The measurement schedule agreed with the services engineer would come first, and the board and radio plan would follow from it. Each board would carry a location label that matches the measurement schedule and the services drawings.
| Layer | What we'd do | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Sensor boards | Custom boards for what the building needs to measure, with power and size matched to where they will be fitted, such as ceilings, risers and plant rooms. | Our own trial node runs in an operational plant room, one of the spaces listed above |
| Firmware | Reporting intervals and alert rules agreed with the services engineer, so that the data fits how the building will be run. | Which points report often and which rarely, and what a device does when the building network is still being commissioned |
| Radio | LoRaWAN, NB-IoT or BLE, with gateway positions planned alongside the building services design. | |
| Data | A network server and telemetry database, with a route for the data to reach the operator's own systems. | Which of the building management system, an operator dashboard or an export is the destination, and who owns the data |
| Mechanical | Fixings and enclosures to suit the building fabric, scoped with you at the start. | Access for battery changes after handover, and fixings that suit the ceiling, riser or plant room |
How working with us goes
- 01 Scope We agree what has to be built, where it lives and where the data goes.
- 02 Prototype Working hardware and firmware on your bench, tested against real conditions.
- 03 Pilot A small batch on real sites, with fixes folded back into the design.
- 04 Production Design for manufacture, a production run, and support once it is in the field.
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