Motion sensor installation in Rooms under 4x4m

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Laura CARBO

Difficulty: novice

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Learning Objectives

After reading this article, you’ll be able to:

  • install Tabs motion sensors in locations under 4x4m

Prerequisites

Note

Motion sensors connect over the LoRa network. Make sure you install your LoRa hub before installing the sensors (check out LoRa Gateways / Hubs installation guides for more information).

  • Prepare you sensor plan (floorplan with dimensions and markings of where the sensors need to come) has been set up.
Calculate the number of sensors needed to cover the room
  1. Since the dimension of the room should be smaller than 4x4m
  2. Ceiling height should be between 2,15m and 4m
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Sensor installation

Info

If the situation you are facing deviates from these instructions/prerequisites, please contact Spacewell. Pictures / Drawings say more than a 1000 words.

1. Location check
  1. Go to the room
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2. Check the room against the prerequisites
  1. Check the room against the prerequisites. If the prerequisite “Length < 4m AND Width < 4m” is exceeded, please check installation instructions for Meeting Rooms
  2. Check the height of the meeting room: Ceiling height between 2,15m and 4m
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3. Check the room for obstructions
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4. Sensor preparation: unpack
  1. Sensor unpack & placement indication
  2. Take sticker from packaging and stick it to the sensor plan or fill in the prepared excel (see Prepare batch import file before installation)
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5. Sensor preparation: tape placement
  1. Remove sensor from packaging
  2. Tape placement
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6. Sensor activation

Remove the plastic strip to enable the sensor battery

7. Sensor placement

Sensor placement on ceiling, in the middle of the room: perpendicular to room (long side sensor parallel to short side room)

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Top view

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Side view

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Examples
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Exceptions (when prerequisites not met)

‪If prerequisites are not met, contact your Spacewell Implementation Consultant to check if it is possible to install the sensor, perhaps with a different placement.

‪If sensors are not placed according to Spacewell guidelines, the accuracy cannot be guaranteed.

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‪Overview exceptional situations

‪1. Phone booth where walls are entirely made from glass

2. Concentration rooms with only fabric. If table is available: it’s possible to hang underneath the table, but be aware of false positives when door is open.

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3. ‪Concentration rooms with difficult design: hang sensor on the wall of the door, looking into the room

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Sensor installation Tips & Tricks

  • Don’t place tape on the side with the QR code
  • Aim the eye facing down away from strong heating or cooling sources (fireplace, HVAC)

‪What happened before  - don’t let it happen again…

  • Eye of workplace sensor very close against a metal stud 
  • Sensor towards the door
  • Sensors/touchpoint installation in a “construction” site

Deploy sensors in Workplace Platform

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On the back panel of the sensor, you will find the Device ID. Depending on the version of the sensor, the position of the device ID information on the sensor might differ a bit.

Where the sensor sticker will mention Device ID in format 58A0-CB00-0010-XXXX or E8E1-E100-010C-XXXX: add dashes after each 2 characters in Studio (to obtain 58-A0-CB-00-00-10-XX-XX resp E8-E1-E1-00-01-0C-XX-XX).

Add New Device in Workplace back-end Studio

  1. Go to your environment (https://studio.cobundu.com ) and log in
  2. Select the location, where you can manually add a sensor via "Add New Device"
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Add New Device > Motion sensor in Studio

Manually add device through location > devices > new: location is filled in.

‪Select Device Type "TrackNet Motion v1.3". This will automatically link the device channel.

Enter Device ID as serial-number with all capitals and including the dashes. Where the sensor sticker will mention Device ID in format 58A0-CB00-0010-XXXX or E8E1-E100-010C-XXXX: add dashes after each 2 characters in Studio (to obtain 58-A0-CB-00-00-10-XX-XX resp E8-E1-E1-00-01-0C-XX-XX).

Enter a meaningful Device Name (eg customer_floor number_area).

Select a Location from the location tree if this is already known (automatically filled in if location was selected before adding new device).

Linked Locations is not relevant for this kind of sensor.

Selecting the correct Device Type "TrackNet Motion v1.3" should automatically set the Type to "Presence" and the Channel to “PIR” (see Advanced).

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For more information on how to add multiple new devices to Studio, check out Configure devices (add, remove, import/export).

Quality Assurance

Next step is the Quality Assurance to make sure that the whole installation and configuration of your Motion sensor was a success. See Quality Assurance Occupancy/Utilization Sensor

Next steps

Once data is flowing into the Workplace Platform, Configure Space monitor

In case you encounter any issue with your devices, don’t hesitate to check Tabs troubleshooting guide

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