Helvar Senses – Environmental Sensing Solution
Optimise your building for maximum comfort and minimum operational emissions.
Reduce embodied carbon by combining multiple sensing capabilities into single devices.
Learn from your spaces through data-rich, cloud-based insights.
Helvar Senses can measure…
Light is essential for life and enhances wellbeing, productivity and safety; make sure your spaces have enough!
Measuring CO2 levels is vital for understanding air quality. Values over 1000 ppm can decrease mental capacity and cause drowsiness!
Protect your air quality from Volatile Organic Compounds, which can emerge from everyday objects and lead to adverse health effects.
Use temperature data to identify problems with HVAC systems or building insulation, maintaining a comfortable and efficient working environment.
Too humid or too dry conditions can make a big impact on comfort. Get the right balance for the perfect climate in your spaces.
Use sound data to better understand your spaces and create special zones for concentration, collaboration and rest.
Get optimal air flow through your building by maintaining the right pressure. Fresh air in, stale air out.
Helvar Senses will learn, grow and evolve alongside your building, bringing you even more benefits over time.
Explore the Helvar Senses solution
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Helvar Senses – Specifiable Features
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Measure environmental conditions as part of lighting control system
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Compare space utilisation with additional environmental conditions
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Wireless connectivity and Extension Sensors for enhanced flexibility
Gain a detailed understanding of space conditions using the densest sensor network in your building, reducing cost and complexity.
Environmental sensing is a natural complement to lighting control, as our sensors, which are already installed in buildings, typically form the densest sensor network.
Adding environmental sensors offers comprehensive insights into various space conditions, such as climate, air quality, and noise.
Our environmental sensors integrate multiple sensing technologies into a single product, reducing the need for numerous individual devices.
This results in lower capital expenditure (CapEx) for installation and reduced operational expenditure (OpEx) for maintenance, thereby enhancing future profitability.
Close the energy performance gap and make more data-driven decisions with combined insights on different environmental conditions.
Minimise energy waste in the operational phase of your projects. By comparing environmental conditions with space utilisation, you can gain unique insights into the performance of your spaces, enabling optimisation based on actual usage.
This comparison data empowers decision-making, such as identifying and correcting vacant spaces that are unnecessarily heated, cooled, or ventilated.
Achieve greater flexibility in both the design and tenanted phases of your project, futureproofing the building for any possible changes.
Wireless sensors reduce installation and maintenance time while enabling greater flexibility during the building design and tenanted phases.
Use wireless extension sensors for location flexibility and to expand the range of monitored spaces as the needs of the building and its occupants evolve over time.
Helvar Senses – Specifiable Features
1
Measure environmental conditions as part of lighting control system
Gain a detailed understanding of space conditions using the densest sensor network in your building, reducing cost and complexity.
Environmental sensing is a natural complement to lighting control, as our sensors, which are already installed in buildings, typically form the densest sensor network.
Adding environmental sensors offers comprehensive insights into various space conditions, such as climate, air quality, and noise.
Our environmental sensors integrate multiple sensing technologies into a single product, reducing the need for numerous individual devices.
This results in lower capital expenditure (CapEx) for installation and reduced operational expenditure (OpEx) for maintenance, thereby enhancing future profitability.
2
Compare space utilisation with additional environmental conditions
Close the energy performance gap and make more data-driven decisions with combined insights on different environmental conditions.
Minimise energy waste in the operational phase of your projects. By comparing environmental conditions with space utilisation, you can gain unique insights into the performance of your spaces, enabling optimisation based on actual usage.
This comparison data empowers decision-making, such as identifying and correcting vacant spaces that are unnecessarily heated, cooled, or ventilated.
3
Wireless connectivity and Extension Sensors for enhanced flexibility
Achieve greater flexibility in both the design and tenanted phases of your project, futureproofing the building for any possible changes.
Wireless sensors reduce installation and maintenance time while enabling greater flexibility during the building design and tenanted phases.
Use wireless extension sensors for location flexibility and to expand the range of monitored spaces as the needs of the building and its occupants evolve over time.
Helvar Senses – System Architecture
Helvar Senses connects environmental sensors to your lighting control system and sends a diverse range of data to the cloud, where it is processed to give you unique views into the environmental conditions in your spaces.
The Helvar Senses solution consists of:
— Helvar Insights‘ Wellbeing module
— 3901 Environmental Sensor
— Aranet 4 Extension Sensor
The 3901 sensor is a combined lighting control and environmental sensor, which is supplemented by the Aranet4 extension sensor to offer additional flexibility and improved accuracy.
Helvar Insights hosts the interface for Helvar Senses in its Wellbeing Insights module, allowing you to view real-time and historical environmental data while combining it occupancy reports to make advanced optimisations in your spaces.
Benefits of Helvar Senses
Close the energy performance gap
Minimise energy waste in the operational phase of your projects. By combining indoor environmental data, such as HVAC and occupancy, you can gain a unique view into the performance of your spaces and optimise them based on their actual usage.
Design spaces for people
Whether you’re creating spaces for employees in a workplace, students at schools or patients at a hospital— proper environmental conditions are critical in supporting health, wellbeing and productivity.
Stay on top of directives
Legislation such as the European Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) & the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) already require reporting in areas such as environmental impact and employee health & safety, and they are just the tip of the iceberg.
Reach credits for building certification
To date, 31 criteria across WELL, LEED & BREEAM can be impacted by a Helvar solution with environmental sensing. Building certifications are an increasingly popular choice for boosting real estate value and attracting tenants.
