Wireless Sensor Networking for Building Automation

When you're seeking HVAC networking, hotel guest room control, building environment monitoring, or other applications, the innovative MeshScape wireless sensor networking platform lets building automation OEM manufacturers offer new-breed solutions that provide:

• Greater building environment control - Integrate and centralize the management of heating, cooling, lighting, and security as well as automate the control of multiple systems.
• Energy conservation - Create adaptive applications that reduce energy expenses through optimized HVAC management and allocate utility costs equitably based on actual consumption.
• Flexibility for changing layouts - Easily reconfigure systems to create adaptable workspaces or less intrusively retrofit existing infrastructures while saving time and money.

Meeting the Unique Requirements of Commercial Buildings

The MeshScape network system software - using Persistent Dynamic Routing™ - is the foundation of an efficient, responsive, and resilient wireless sensor network. Ready-to-embed hardware modules and assemblies and easily integrate with your gauge, sensor, actuator, or other instrumentation/sensing device to connect and communicate over the MeshScape self-organizing, self-healing network. The networks easily and fully integrate with network-management system and applications.

MeshScape is the only wireless sensor networking solution available today that supports the unique requirements of commercial buildings:

• Scalability across a large building – Wireless sensor network deployed in commercial buildings must be able to scale to hundreds of nodes; only MeshScape has deployed networks of this size in commercial environments.
• Responsiveness to unique building layout characteristics – Each building has a unique set of characteristics and requirements to determine placement of the sensor network modules. For example, a building might require that mesh nodes be installed only in public/shared space, or elevator shafts must be used for between-floor routing, or special equipment may create RF interference in an area of a building. MeshScape’s highly responsive topology discovery method enables these unique requirements to be addressed.
• Power efficiency to support campus deployment – In cases where networks are deployed in campuses across multiple buildings, some between-building nodes may not have access to AC power and must operate for years on batteries.

New Possibilities, New Markets, New Value

Managers of commercial, retail, and residential properties are continually seeking innovative methods to cost-effectively and profitably manage millions of square feet of space, maximize property values, improve customer satisfaction, and attract prestigious tenants.

MeshScape wireless sensor networks provide excellent reliability, power-efficiency, adaptability, and scalability. You can easily embed and integrate low-profile MeshScape modules with your sensing devices throughout a building to form seamless networks. With MeshScape, you can solve problems cost-effectively and create new opportunities to deliver greater value to your customers.

Faster Retrofitting

One of the major causes of cost overruns and time-delays in retrofitting office space arises from the labor-intensive movement of utility wiring to conform to new wall configurations. Using wireless sensors networks, property owners can relocate thermostats and other sensors quickly and conveniently without intrusive, disruptive, costly, rewiring efforts.

Start with a Reference Kit

The MeshScape Reference Kit contains everything you need to set up a self-organizing star-mesh wireless network. The standard Reference Kit includes five endpoints, three routers, one gateway, API software, and network-monitoring software. Using the API and network-monitoring software, you can prototype your application and evaluate network operation and performance.