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Smart buildings use technology to enable efficient and economical use of resources while creating a safe and comfortable environment for the occupants. Smart buildings may use a wide range of existing technologies and are designed or retrofitted in a way that allows for the integration of future technological developments.
Smart building solutions have grown at a rapid pace over the past few years, and it is projected to increase dramatically in the years to come. The driving forces behind the trend are numerous, interconnected systems can reduce energy consumption, help predictive maintenance, improve building efficiency, and increase productivity.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought hygiene and health concerns into sharp focus, inducing the need to adopt emerging and existing smart building technology to create a smarter and safer environment.
Peak Power, a Canadian climate tech company, is dedicated to building the net-zero future of tomorrow. Initially, it adopted a smart building solution based on Zigbee technology during their projects. However, the big picture was far more complex. This solution highlighted various problems.
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Peak Power needed to fetch environmental data in Canadian commercial smart buildings with a sensor-based network in order to provide the highest quality data to support their AI-driven systems. After being tested and assessed, the Zigbee solution was unqualified for this task. Peak Power turned to Milesight for a smart building solution based on LoRaWAN® technology.
The optimal choice for Peak Power to tackle the existing challenges was the Milesight smart building solution. Along with Peak Insight, the energy & indoor air quality platform developed by Peak Power, Milesight efficient wireless LoRaWAN® sensors and gateways provided a pivotal role in monitoring, real-time reporting, and instant alerts in commercial buildings.
AM107 Ambience Monitoring Sensor
AM319 Ambience Monitoring Sensor
EM300-TH Temperature & Humidity Sensor
EM500-CO2 Carbon Dioxide Sensor
The Peak Insight platform contained three key components, data collection, data analysis, and data visualization portals, which work together to provide building owners, operators, and managers with energy-saving advice.
Milesight sensors are installed on each floor to monitor building data, including indoor ambience temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, people counting, etc., while AI-powered analytics integrate this information with additional data sources to forecast peaks in demand. A mobile app or desktop portal delivers data-driven recommendations for optimizing and reducing energy consumption at peak times.
The Milesight UG67 LoRaWAN® gateway is installed approximately every 3-stories with PoE power input and has been tested to work at least 2km away. The 4G module in the gateway provides an easy Internet connection for data transmission.
Once the gateway receives the data from the Milesight LoRaWAN® sensors, the embedded network server forwards data by MQTT to the Peak Insight platform via the cellular network. Peak Insight platform is hosted for building managers’ access via the web app and mobile apps.
With the Peak Insight app, the operations managers can remotely monitor Canada’s smart building conditions, equipment, and occupancy. Get automatic alerts when the indoor temperature leaves the range of 21℃-26℃, humidity falls below 40%, and the environmental condition makes occupants more vulnerable to viral respiratory infections, or when CO2 levels exceed 800 ppm indicating that not enough fresh air for the number of people in the smart building.
Contact our team to begin your automation journey today on 1300 769 378 or solutions@powertec.com.au