Home automation has long been a mishmash of standards and varying protocols. Along with that came confusion. There’s Z-Wave, ZigBee, C10 and many other often proprietary “standards”. Consequently, the adoption of home automation tech by many homeowners was either too expensive, too difficult, or too confusing, and that’s not a scenario which encourages adoption. Thankfully […]

We see IoT applied to many and varied application areas which were previously unthought of. One application is monitoring rainwater harvesting systems to measure their operation and performance. We recently undertook a project to implement this solution for a corporate client and the results were amazing. The brief was multi-facetted, including remotely monitoring the tank’s health

Many years ago I was an FAE for a prominent semiconductor vendor and had the opportunity to understand the design-in process from the vendor’s side. Suffice to say, it’s not easy competing for design-ins when the market is saturated with similar products at various price points. So you may ask, how can a vendor or

Welcome to the 3rd and final instalment of our Indoor Air Quality Monitoring (iAQM) discussion. Today we discuss a particular indoor air quality sensor we developed for a client – Grosvenor Engineering – who are leaders in analytics used in the maintenance of mechanical and HVAC equipment. iAQM Sensor We were engaged by Grosvenor Engineering

Welcome to the 2nd instalment of our Indoor Air Quality Monitoring (iAQM) discussion. Today we discuss the technology behind an iAQM sensing system. In the 3rd and final instalment, we’ll do a review on an indoor air quality sensor we developed for a client – Grosvenor Engineering. Sensors The technology used to sense iAQM parameters

In this 3 part series we discuss indoor air quality monitoring (iAQM) and it’s applicability to commercial buildings. Part 1 discusses iAQM from a building occupant perspective – the basics. Part 2 will discuss the technology behind an iAQM system from a holistic and generic perspective. Part 3 will review a commercial indoor air quality