Senseware’s wide array of sensors and bridges support adding new monitoring on-site without ordering costly BAS equipment, if it even exists. Senseware’s platform, with bridges that support any third party sensor/meter/device, mean that our equipment never becomes obsolete. The intuitive web interface allows building engineers to easily view equipment status and environmental conditions, trend important monitoring points, and get instant notifications.

A new building has an up-to-date BAS that controls and monitors nearly everything in a building. Sooner or later, building engineers eventually want to environmentally monitor new locations, or monitor an additional piece of equipment, or will need to troubleshoot or diagnose a building problem. Purchasing the additional point for the BAS and having a BAS contractor configure the BAS are very costly. And the interface with which building engineers interact with the BAS is unintuitive and often unused.

Customer use our BACnet bridge with BACnet IP router to collect data from existing BAS. They can monitor building equipment and environmental equipment much easier than through their on-site BAS terminal/operator workstation, which rarely gets used.

Older buildings are faced with aging infrastructure and increased demands on performance. Purchasing and installing a BAS can be costly and cause tenant disruption. Customer use Senseware to connect, monitor and control systems cost-effectively while minimizing tenant disruption. This allows building engineers to access building data off-site 24/7. Applications include temperature and humidity monitoring, power consumption, controls and scheduling.

Get alerted when your lights need to be replaced.

Our customer placed CTs around lighting circuits to detect lower than normal consumption. Lux sensors were also placed to detect the lighting level of their space.

Individual units can come with their own potential for failure including water leaks, problems with boilers, AC units.

Get Instantaneous alerts for leak detection, monitor each unit’s water/gas/energy consumption, measure inlet and outlet temperatures for AC units and boilers to monitor performance.

Reduce project liability exposure for damage to sensitive critical infrastructure. A customer used Senseware IAQ packages to ensure dust levels were kept to the standards of the site regulation to prevent any infrastructural damage due to construction.

Correlate and trend data to see what causes Indoor Air Quality to change. This leads to increased energy savings and worker health.

Senseware also makes it easy to monitor and control air quality based on current indoor conditions with the Dynamic Controls App.

A customer implemented IAQ packages in a shared office space to monitor temperature, humidity, air flow and levels of VOCs, CO₂ and Particulate Matter.

Engineers visit gas, water, and energy meters daily to get meter readings of consumption. Delayed response to usage spikes may go undetected and result in costly utility bills.

Pulse, Modbus, and 4-20mA bridges allow Senseware to connect to nearly every energy meter. Our newly released water meter bridges allow for communication with specific water meter protocols from Sensus and Badger water meters. All this allows for remote monitoring of meters. Since the information is all real-time, higher than normal consumption can trigger alerts so that building engineers can detect leaks and failures before expensive damage occurs. Now building engineers can view meter readings remotely to understand consumption trends.

Building engineers have to manually update time clocks when they want to change the schedule of a piece of equipment or lighting circuit. Other cases require they manually turn on/off the equipment daily.

The Senseware timer control bridge allows users to set & change schedules for equipment remotely and perform manual overrides of equipment. Soon it will even allow for control of equipment based on other sensor data or weather information.

A Senseware customer has buildings spread out of several city blocks and used electromechanical time clocks to control when lights were on/off, garage fans, and exhaust fans. They also had HVAC that ran during unoccupied building hours. When they wanted to change any of the schedules, or when daylight savings time transitions occurred, building engineers had to walk around and manually change every single relay. With the Senseware system they can now remotely monitor all of the equipment and change schedules from any web connected device. They can also make sure their HVAC only runs during occupied hours.

Having multiple buildings requires they all be monitored, but installing a building management system (BMS) that allows building engineers to manage all building at once would be extremely costly, time consuming, and logistically challenging.

Wireless hardware allows for quick, easy, and unobtrusive installation. Dashboards allow for data visualization across buildings to display portfolio views or building specifics view of sensor or equipment data.

In relation to the above example, using our wireless architecture the customer was able to create a strong mesh network of multiple buildings across several city blocks. There was no need to run wires and installation took a matter of hours instead of days or weeks. Installation was minimally disruptive to existing retail clients, who had to make no changes to their operating hours with no disruption to their customer experience.

In the worst case scenario, when equipment fails and a significant amount of time passes the cost of the damage could be astronomical by the time a building engineer detects the failure.

Leak detection sensors, monitoring of utility meters, and easy submetering combined with instantaneous alerts to notify building engineers the moment warning conditions exist.

Building engineers are often unaware when equipment leaks, leading to very costly repairs. Detecting leaks require building engineers to be on-site and walking around the building or a customer notifying the engineer. Our leak detection sensors can monitor locations where leaks are common, costly, and problematic. Monitoring water meters allows for notifications if high usage is detected.

A customer had a $300,000 leak that went into a tenant space. After installing Senseware, the customer gets instantaneous alerts if a leak is detected and tenant gets peace of mind as they are able to view the data for the leak detection sensor as well.

Pinpointing utility leaks are difficult to identify with just monthly meter readings and utility bills. Senseware provides consisten, real-time visibility into peak demand usage and can connect to submeters to drill down and diagnose specific locations and pieces of equipment.