Comfort sensor installation
- Julie Isebaert
- Sergio Karijodinomo
Difficulty: expert
Learning Objectives
After reading this article, you’ll be able to:
Prepare your environment to start using tabs comfort sensors
Install tabs comfort sensors
Verify correct installation of tabs comfort sensors
Tabs comfort sensors check for Temperature & Humidity.
Find here the checklist for installation: Checklist hardware on-site visit or installation.
Check our instructions on tape here: Tabs Installation Guide
Prerequisite: Gateway
Tabs comfort sensors 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 installation
Preparation
Check if locations apply to prerequisites
chest level (1m40-1m60/4.59-5.25 feet), preferably next to a light switch or HVAC control unit
not over a heating body or in direct sunlight
not behind a cupboard, a screen, ...
Indicate on the Prepare your sensor plan where to place all sensors, incl where the sensor placement deviates from this normal procedure.
Sensor preparation
Place 2 pieces of adhesive tape on the side of the sensor on the side with tabs embossed.
Do not place any tape on the side of the QR code
Sensor installation
Based on the sensor plan, check where each sensor needs to be installed.
When installing the sensor make sure the intake (round air slots) are not obstructed. Preferably place the sensor next to a light switch or an HVAC control unit.
The idea is to grasp the temperature at breast/head-height (“as the end-user would interpret the temperature”; knowing that heat rises).
Use common sense and do not hang them over a heating body, in direct sunlight, next to a heating vent, behind a smart board / television set, deep in open cupboards (where they can be blocked by items) etc …
Remove the clear battery strip to power up the sensor (red box 2).
During installation, it's important to clean the installation surface to remove dust particles which have a great influence on the strength of the adhesive bond. This can be done using a simple dust cloth.
Once the surface is clean, remove the adhesive tape cover and mount the sensor on the desired location.
Press the sensor firmly for 5 seconds against the installation surface.
Send Sensor Plan with sensor placement indication to Spacewell (scan, picture) for mapping
Deploy sensors in Workplace Platform
On the back panel of the sensor, you will find the Device ID. Depending on the version of the sensor, the position of the device ID information on the sensor might differ a bit.
Where the sensor sticker will mention Device ID in format 58A0-CB00-0010-XXXX or E8E1-E100-010C-XXXX: add dashes after each 2 characters in Studio (to obtain 58-A0-CB-00-00-10-XX-XX resp E8-E1-E1-00-01-0C-XX-XX).
Add New Device in 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 "TrackNet Humidity v1.3". This will automatically link the device channel.
Enter Device ID as serial-number with all capitals and including the dashes. Where the sensor sticker will mention Device ID in format 58A0-CB00-0010-XXXX or E8E1-E100-010C-XXXX: add dashes after each 2 characters in Studio (to obtain 58-A0-CB-00-00-10-XX-XX resp E8-E1-E1-00-01-0C-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).
Only applicable for Comfort sensors: Next to the already selected (main) Room or Workplace, you can visualize incoming comfort data on other, Linked Locations. Imagine having 1 comfort sensor in an open office space and you want to visualize this data on all 8 workplaces in that space: Linked Location needs to contain all 8 workplaces. (More information on Linked Locations: Live floorplan settings)
Selecting the correct Device Type "TrackNet Humidity v1.3" should automatically set the Sensor Types and Channels to "Temperature” and “Humidity" (see Advanced).
For more information on how to add multiple new devices to Studio, check out Sensor Management .
Quality Assurance
Next step is the Quality Assurance to make sure that the whole installation and configuration of your tabs comfort sensor was a success.
On the live floorplans (for example in touchpoints Workplace web (Go) and The Workplace App), as well as in Workplace back-end Studio’s Sensor Management, you should see values for each sensor that is linked to a location.
With a thermometer, you can benchmark the (temperature) values from the sensor. Admittedly, humidity is more difficult to check.
The screenshots in this chapter visualize the results on Live Floorplan > View Temperature/Humidity/Comfort/... (depending on the kind of sensor installed) and in Studio’s Sensor Management.
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