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It's generally understood that smart buildings can automatically monitor and control the temperature of a space. But what about air quality? Can we control it too? The air we breathe is vital to our health, as well as to our well-being and productivity.
In a previous post, we discussed Demand-Controlled Ventilation (DCV): a technology that automatically ensures adequate indoor air renewal at all times, enabling significant energy and cost savings.
This is achieved by incorporating devices with a series of sensors that measure indoor air quality and allow ventilation systems to regulate their flow rate based on actual needs.
These measuring devices play a key role in optimizing HVAC systems, as their integration provides them with the data they need to be truly intelligent, meet demand, and detect maintenance requirements by modulating temperatures, flow rates, capacity, etc.
Our MICA devices continuously measure the main parameters that determine indoor air quality, providing an objective reference for the space's air renewal needs so that ventilation systems can act accordingly.
They have a great capacity to adapt to different systems to ensure not only efficient and effective ventilation, but also high levels of efficiency. of health and comfort automatically. They have flexible power supply options (AC / DC 12-24V), connectivity (Modbus RTU/TCP) and installation (bolted to a wall or attached to electrical boxes). In addition, their modular design allows for quick and convenient maintenance and calibration.
Loxone, a company specialized in building automation, has a control system that allows automatic ventilation in homes and establishments, so that users always maintain the necessary air renewal for favorable environmental conditions.
MICA is fully compatible and can be easily integrated, via Modbus, with the Loxone Miniserver to guarantee maximum indoor air quality. Thanks to this, the system will be able to measure the level of different pollutants in the environment and make the building act accordingly: the Miniserver will be able to send the data collected by MICA to the ventilation systems of the interior spaces, to put them into operation in the mode necessary to optimize their performance in an effective and efficient manner.
With the MICA device, in addition to controlling the levels of CO₂, humidity and temperature, different pollutants in the environment can be monitored: formaldehyde, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of different degrees of toxicity and suspended particles -PM1.0/PM2.5/PM10-, which are the vehicles in which viruses travel. Depending on the level of these pollutants, the Loxone Miniserver can react automatically, either activating the necessary level of ventilation or simply notifying users to open windows or take appropriate action.
In this way, the integration of MICA allows the ventilation system to be optimized while promoting a healthy indoor environment at all times.
Indoor air quality monitoring can have a wide variety of applications in building automation systems. Contact us for more information.
