Sensative Strip installation
- Julie Isebaert
Difficulty: expert
Learning Objectives
After reading this article, you’ll be able to:
Prepare your environment to start using Sensative Strips
Install Sensative Strips
Verify correct installation of Sensative Strips
Sensative Strips are door and window counters. In Workplace, they will indicate how often a door/window was opened in the course of a day (counters are reset at midnight).
Find here the checklist for installation: Checklist hardware on-site visit or installation.
Make sure you have enough space (3.5mm) between the door and the door frame to install the sensor.
Prerequisite: Gateway
Sensative Strips connect over the LoRa network. Make sure you install your LoRa hub before installing the sensors (check out LoRa Gateways, Hubs installation guides for more information).
Sensor activation
Per strip, 2 magnets are delivered: 1 for activation, 1 for operational actions. In other words, strips comes in "transport mode": when both of the magnets are attached, the device is idle.
When removing the magnets for the first time, the device will automatically send a join request to the LoRa-hub.
The range is shorter than standard LoRa, due to the smaller antenna and narrow openings in which the sensor is used. The range is more likely to be close to a good Wi-Fi network.
Number of sensors per hub is irrelevant (500 - 1000 per hub)
If you have removed the magnets (eg before the hub is installed), and you need to manually join the device, take one of the magnets and move it to the round edge (Magnet sensor 2) of the Strip 3 times (3 green LED blinks at the Sensative logo). This will send a join request to the server:
One long green LED blink signals the device has been successfully joined to the server
5 red blinks means the device failed to join to the network
Once the sensors are installed, it’s not possible to remove them without damaging the sensor. So it is recommended to deploy the sensor in Workplace and see data come in, prior to installation.
Sensor installation
Tape the sensative strip to either the door or the door frame.
Best practice is to tape it on the side where the door opens. Taping it to the back of the door (close to the joints) would require the door to open fully for the sensor to be triggered.
The rectangle magnet needs to be placed on the door frame and is to be on the same level as the sensative logo (see image)
Your devices key information, such as Sensor ID (serial-number with all capitals and -, listed as “Dev EUI”) and serial number can be found in the package on a barcode.
You can check this video for an example on how to mount the devices:
Deploy sensors in Workplace Platform
The Sensative Strip devices key information, such as Sensor ID (= serial-number with all capitals and including the dashes (format 70-B3-D5-2C-00-XX-XX-XX)) and serial number can be found in the package on a barcode.
Please be aware that only after the next data package is send, data for this sensor will be visible in your tenant. (This means that depending on time of upload to Studio and activity at the customer site, this can take a while.)
Add New Device in Workplace back-end Studio
Go to your environment (https://studio.cobundu.com ) and log in
Select the location, where you can manually add a sensor via "Add New Device"
Manually add device through location > devices > new: location is filled in.
Select Device Type "SensativeStrips Door Pulse". This will automatically link the device channel (eg door pulse for Sensative Strip devices).
Enter Device ID as serial-number with all capitals and including the dashes (format 70-B3-D5-2C-00-XX-XX-XX).
Enter a meaningful Device Name (eg customer_floor number_area).
Select a Location from the location tree if this is already known (automatically filled in if location was selected before adding new device).
Linked Locations is not relevant for this kind of sensor.
Selecting the correct Device Type "Sensative Strip" should automatically set the Channel to "door" and Type to "Pulse" (see Advanced).
Sensative Strip sensors can send data in 2 ways:
pulse: sensor sends "pulses" to the Workplace IoT Platform, and Workplace must count how many pulses have been made
counter: sensor sends counter value to Workplace.
In order to keep control, for example when the counter is reset, Workplace does not accept counter values/only works with pulses and calculates counter values based on this information. Workplace resets the own counter at midnight.
For more information on how to add multiple new devices to Studio, check out Configure devices (add, remove, import, and export).
Inform Spacewell
Quality Assurance
On the live floorplans (for example in touchpoints Workplace web (Go) and The Workplace App), you should see count adding up each time the door is opened. In Workplace back-end Studio’s Sensor Management, you should see values 0+1+0+1 coming in.
For Live Floorplan and Dashboards, only transition from 0 to 1 is counted. This means only door opening is counted.
Remember that in Studio, you might/should also see values from the sensor heartbeat coming in. Don't mistake these for actual data (heartbeat would be sending 1+1+1 as values; whereas real data would be 0+1+0+1...). More information about heartbeats: How to monitor Sensor Health
Following sensor is only sending heartbeats, no detected values/data:
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