VergeSense installation location
- Julie Isebaert
Difficulty: expert
Learning Objectives
After reading this article, you’ll be able to:
Understand Vergesense installation location, taking into account the detection area compared to ceiling height and the area you want to cover
A sensor plan for VergeSense devices will always be drawn up by the VergeSense team.
The below description already brings forward what is important to take into account.
Create sensor layout
As described in Prepare your sensor plan, you’ll need following elements to define where to place each sensor:
information on ceiling heights
latest floor plan with latest furniture drawings
superposition Reflected Ceiling Plan (RCP) file
ideally, pictures or videos of the location
Best practices recap
Detection area is measured on floor level: any person standing on the edge of the detection area might not get picked up.
Avoid setting up count area at the edge of the detection area.
It's a best practice to include 1.5.m coverage on all sides
For meeting rooms: Because of the above mentioned edge of the detection area & because you never know how a room might be used in future, it's best practice that the detection area should cover the whole room, even if that means adding an additional sensor to the room
Specific for VergeSense headcount sensors:
If more than 1 sensor is used to cover an area, these will need to be "stitched" together in the software. Allow an overlap of 0.5m in the detection area of 2 sensors that lie side-by-side and need to be stitched.
1 single sensor can take up to 8 count areas (remember this when you set up headcount sensors to track workplaces)
Define the Count Areas on your floor
Define the areas you want to monitor. We call these areas “Count Areas”. Do you want to know how many people are using a (closed) room at any given time? Or are you using Vergesense devices to track the occupancy of multiple desks?
1 Vergesense device can only cover a maximum of 8 desks/workplace areas
(It’s not possible to configure more than 8 count areas in the Vergesense Platform)
Define the Detection Area of each sensor
A Vergesense device is always placed in the middle of its Detection Area, which is a rectangle of which the dimensions (length-width) on the ground are dependent on the installation height/ceiling height.
The detection area of one sensor can be calculated with the following formula:
Length = 2.0 * mounting height
Width = 1.678 * mounting height"
Installation height can be from 2.44m (8ft) to 3.66m (12ft).
The following table shows the Detection Area size for different sensor heights:
Installation Height | Detection Area |
|---|---|
2.44m (8ft) | 4.8m x 4m = 19.3 sq.m. (16ft. x 13.4ft. = 214.8 sq.ft.) |
2.7m (9ft.) | 5.4m x 4.5m = 24.5 sq.m. (18ft. x 15.1ft. = 271.8 sq.ft.) |
3m (10ft.) | 6m x 5m = 30.2 sq.m. (20ft. x 16.8ft. = 335.6 sq.ft.) |
3.4m (11ft.) | 6.8m x 5.7m = 38.8 sq.m. (22ft. x 18.5ft. = 406.1 sq.ft.) |
3.66 (12ft.) | 3.7m x 7.4m = 45.9 sq.m. (24ft. x 20.1ft. = 483.3 sq.ft.) |
Combine Count Areas and Detection Areas on your Sensor Plan
Now that you have defined which areas you want to track occupancy on (count areas), and know the detection areas of the sensors, you can define how many Vergesense sensor devices are needed.
The number and placements of the sensors that you deploy should ensure that your count areas are completely contained within the sensors’ detection areas.
Make sure you visit Prepare your sensor plan for more information and examples.
Define sensor installation location
The installation location of the Vergesense devices is linked to the height of the ceiling and dependent of any obstructions of large items (e.g. a projector hanging from the ceiling).
Determine the sensor's precise location according to the layout defined in the sensor layout process and the resulting floor plan (Sensor Plan). Sensors are displayed as circular icons on the floor plan, with an arrow pointing in their view direction.
For workplaces headcount monitoring, viewing direction is important in order to get the correct data on which individual workplace/area is occupied or not. Remember: 1 Vergesense device can only cover a maximum of 8 workplace areas.
In meeting rooms, viewing direction is important to make sure to cover the whole room
Next steps
Make sure to check VergeSense hardware and network requirements prior to VergeSense gateway installation.
Search