Fine mesh sensor network delivering data in real-time for user-oriented applications – making buildings smart, future-proof and flexible!

 
 
 

smartengine is a building intelligence and lighting control platform designed to power lights and sensors over an IT network infrastructure backbone. Sensors are deployed throughout a space and communicated with in real time to deliver advanced insights throughout the entire built environment. The sensors detect motion, brightness, temperature, air quality, bluetooth data and per fixture power consumption. All data is automatically delivered to the smartengine in real time. The networking of rooms and buildings via sensors makes it possible to quickly obtain a detailed understanding of how spaces are being used, all the while delivering best in class lighting energy consumption, often measured between 0.1-0.3 W/ft².

 

What we can do

Your smartengine benefits as user, tenant, owner and facility manager

Room Booking

Employees can search and book unoccupied workstations and meeting rooms

Environment

smartengine saves up to 34% of operational costs and up to 29 LEED points can be positively influenced using smartengine

Space Analytics

Optimization and insights of the division and use of the area

Navigation & Positioning

Convenient indoor navigation and POI finder

Asset Tracker & People Finder

Locate users and company assets across multiple rooms, floors and buildings

Optimal Room Climate

Presence-based control of lighting, ventilation and heating. Generate up to 34% lower operating cost.

Hot Desking

Display of available workstations and rooms in real time. Optimization of workstations searched in Flex Desk Offices.

Optimal Lighting

Sensor-controlled fixtures ensure optimal lighting conditions in the entire office. Support of the human daily rhythm with biodynamic light (HCL)

  • smartdirector

    The smartdirector is responsible for the logical management of up to 40 smartengines and up to 2,000 sensors. The collected sensor data is stored at the director for up to one year. The smartdirector also serves as the communication link between smartengine and 3rd party building systems via an integrated, open API and a BACnet/IP interface for building management systems (BMS).

  • smartengine

    The smartengine powers LEDs in the most efficient way possible and enables real time data communication. It provides constant current DC electricity to the LED fittings, eliminating the need for any additional active components. The fixtures should meet the following requirements and are all considered SELV protection class III appliances:
    - 18-48 Volts DC
    - 100-700 mA current
    - up to 34 Watts
    - No driver on the fixtures needed
    - Constant current supply
    - smartsensor or smartgateway (RJ-45 connector) can be integrated in the fixture The smartengine connects and supplies 48 sensors as a central unit.

  • smartsensor

    smartsensors function as the data collection devices when deployed in a fine mesh network throughout the built environment. They collect motion data via a digital passive infrared (DPIR) sensor, light levels through a photocell, and temperature. These sensors collect and report data in real time, which allows the continuous monitoring of a building. Integrated Bluetooth Beacons enable use cases like Indoor Navigation, Nearby-Functions and automated Room-Control / Localization.

Resources
Office Trends in Lighting Control
Office Trends in Lighting Control

The modern office is not just a workplace where we sit at our desks. We jump between meetings, workshops, creative sessions and relax area for coffee breaks and networking. The flexible way of working has new requirements for the modern office and the lighting required within.

This is critical, given that the average office employee spends approximately 90% of their day indoors. The human body relies upon the circadian rhythm; an instinct based on the natural light that tells us when to sleep and when to be awake, and constant exposure to artificial illumination has a counteractive effect.

For that reason, more and more workplaces have embraced smart lighting, and in doing so, enabled a more comfortable environment for employees. Smart lighting boosts productivity, creates a functional and welcoming atmosphere, and enhances comfort and mental health. 

Human-Centric Lighting
Human-Centric Lighting

Human-centric lighting, or HCL, is an important term within the professional lighting world. Significant research has been dedicated to studying the effects of lighting to our well-being. To this end, an increasing number of businesses are investing in human-centric lighting. The global market value of this technology is expected to reach $3.91 billion by the year 2024.

This is money wisely spent, as human-centric lighting is critical to keeping up with our ever changing lifestyle. Until around 200 years ago, human beings spent 90% of our waking hours outside, enjoying natural light. This has now been reversed, with 90% of the time now unfolding indoors – under the glare of artificial illumination.

Indoor lighting remains essential, but so is the quality of light. Inappropriate or low quality light settings can have a severe impact on our health and wellbeing

Smart Building Technology for Offices
Smart Building Technology for Offices

Offices today are being designed and built differently than ever before. With sustainability, wellness and smart building applications as three of the main driving forces behind “today’s” building, it is necessary to provide infrastructures that allow for these goals to be achieved along with providing a backbone that will allow for the built space to easily adapt for the demands of tomorrow. Since 2010, the smartengine platform has been helping customers enable their space to have an infrastructure that does just that.

Building-Performance Lighting for Data Centers
Building-Performance Lighting for Data Centers

Today data centers are under constant pressure to find ways to improve power usage effectiveness (PUE) and drive higher uptimes. smartengine’s Building-Performance Lighting Platform provides on average a 75% reduction in energy usage from lighting and serves as a single system to monitor disruptions to uptime. The system scales well across a variety of environments from large Fortune 500 data centers and co-location facilities to smaller mission-critical facilities.

Videos
smartengine - the link Case Study
smartengine - the link Case Study
smartengine provides Raghu Misra, founder of the link in Nocatee, FL with an average LPD less than 0.1 W/sqft., in-depth space analytics and optimization of ...
smartengine - Intelligent Light Control
smartengine - Intelligent Light Control

Numerous use cases can be created with smartengine. For instance:

- Control of building functions based on presence
- Automatic localization through beacons
- Lighting control via app, voice control and manually via (scene) switch

Introduction to smartengine
Introduction to smartengine

smartengine is a revolutionary system providing the basis for smart building infrastructure with a fine mesh sensor network & real time data and control. This intelligent technology simply uses standard IT infrastructure to transmit power and data. It also drives LED fixtures in the most efficient way possible, even enabling individual flexible Human Centric smart Lighting. smartengine makes complex building infrastructures a thing of the past and is a perfect player in an open, secure, connected building, paving the way for any Use Cases which provide value to tenants, operators and investors.

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