Ventilation System Monitoring with LoRaWAN®

Well-balanced ventilation systems are very important to ensure a good indoor and building climate. It is therefore necessary to monitor them permanently and precisely. Temperature fluctuations or pressure losses can quickly lead to significant energy losses and, in the worst case, even massively disrupt entire production processes or spaces. The use of easy-to-install smart sensors prevents such problems and helps to minimise maintenance costs and save energy resources.

The installed sensors permanently measure parameters such as temperature, humidity and differential pressure. The sensor data are then transmitted to the network and application server using a LoRaWAN® gateway. The combination of these servers processes these data and forward it to a decentralised, cloud-based IoT application.

The data can further be visualised via dashboards and made available to various user groups, whatever data are relevant to these users. If threshold values are exceeded, notifications are sent immediately so that measures can be taken promptly to rectify potential sources of error or prevent damages. Integration into existing databases also opens up opportunities for big data-based optimisation processes for the entire system.

Another practical example of a LoRaWAN® solution, which makes it possible to monitor an installation holistically.