Environment Sensors

Mining

Our Orion Environmental Sensor solutions have several applications in the mining industry. In shallow mines the underground conditions can be powerfully affected by surface weather conditions. Methane is of course a major fire and asphyxiant health hazard. In deeper mines where a large amount of timber is still used to support the roof, there is risk of both fire and collapse. A micro weather station comprised of several sensors and connected to the Orion Data Network, for real time motoring and instant alerts, enables you to detect the levels of hundreds of gases in the air and multiple gases at the same time. It can also detect conditions that may cause an increase in methane or a roof collapse or give early warning of a potential or actual fire.

Our solutions greatly improve mine safety for your personnel, protect expensive equipment, reduce downtime and increase productivity. Understanding weather patterns and the mine ecosystem ad integrating these solutions with our other asset tracking and monitoring solutions, also allows you to predict your maintenance schedules, better organise the mine layout and optimise underground vehicle routes for safety and efficiency.

Data Centres

Millions of pounds and resources are wasted in data centres each year in inefficient cooling systems, and failure to detect changes in the environment that can adversely affect data centre assets. Smarter Technologies Group’s automated environment monitoring solutions can be custom designed and made to fit the requirements of your individual data centre. You can instantly see critical status changes including humidity, air pressure and flow, contact closure and the presence of water, smoke or fire.

Our Data Centre Environment solutions help you to meet regulatory compliance, avoid non-compliance fines and prevent costly asset damage and loss. Connected to the Orion data network, these solutions give you real-time data set to your own bespoke, pre-defined data preferences. Orion sends alerts direct to your mobile, laptop or pager whenever conditions move outside of your chosen parameters, so you can take immediate action. In addition to protecting your staff and assets these solutions also save money on energy bills and reduce the carbon footprint of your data centre.

Healthcare

In NHS and Private Healthcare facilities keeping your refrigerators, freezers, heating units and various treatment areas and equipment at an even temperature is essential. A sudden, or undetected gradual change in environmental conditions can destroy the integrity of specimens, medication and food products, causing unnecessary waste and delaying emergency surgery and treatment. Manually monitoring these environments is time consuming and has a high risk of human error.

Smarter Technologies Group environment monitoring solutions automate these processes, freeing up more time and resources for patient care and overcoming the risk of manual mistakes. When you receive an alert and real-time data feedback, from Orion, on the change in environment, you can take instant action to rectify the environment or to prevent staff from using contaminated or degraded specimens and drugs.

Orion environment solutions for the healthcare industry therefore help you to save time and money, optimise valuable resources, spend more time with patients and meet regulatory and compliance requirements.

Local Government – Social Housing

Another way in which Smarter Technologies environment sensor solutions can prevent health issues, save lives and reduce man hours and expenditure, is in detecting moisture, humidity, mould, carbon monoxide and other gases in government-owned domestic housing.

Our solutions can be fully integrated with existing internal government housing management systems and other Smarter Technologies Group solutions (such as energy consumption sensors), to provide a full 360 degree picture of the condition of the accommodation at all times. This reduces the need for face to face visits to the property, providing excellent time and cost efficiencies. It also facilitates better reputation management, as housing problems are very newsworthy and highly emotive issues. Most importantly it also helps you to protect and safeguard your most vulnerable tenants from young families to the elderly.

When you receive real-time data from Orion you can plan and pre-empt social housing maintenance and repairs and make better-informed decisions for the benefit of your tenants. This invaluable intelligence also helps to reduce insurance premiums and bring any claims to a swifter conclusion.

Ultimately the kind of detailed data and insights that Orion provides is shaping the way in which private and government-owned housing is designed and built to ensure better safety, a higher standard of living and a reduced carbon footprint.

Smart Cities & Rural Areas

Smarter Technologies Group’s wireless sensor technology connected to the Orion Data Network has many applications in both smart cities and rural areas. From an environment perspective they can be used to monitor, for example, gases such as methane and CO, air quality, moisture, humidity, smoke and fire. The real-time information fed back via Orion can help with preventing air pollution; predicting maintenance and repurchasing schedules in accordance with weather and environmental conditions; prevention and faster response in the event of a forest fire; cleaner water and safer, healthier overall living conditions. Combined with our other asset, utilities and waste monitoring, tracking, management and recovery solutions, we are working with the governments of today to build the smarter cities of tomorrow.

Museums & Galleries

In the Museum and Galleries sector Smarter Technologies Group’s IoT-enabled environment sensor solutions are the most effective way to protect paintings and artefacts from environmental damage, such as excess humidity, and also from overheating, fire and smoke. We can create a system for the whole building, individual rooms or an individual painting or artefact. The environmental parameters can be set to suit different works of art in different locations. With Orion’s real-time data feedback, alerts and reporting, used in conjunction with Orion artwork security solutions, you can rest assured that your valuable assets remain in excellent condition as an important part of our culture and heritage.