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Let Your Buildings Breathe

Maximise comfort, efficiency and safety throughout any building with Siemens wireless room solutions. Particularly useful in flexible or changeable environments, this scalable system is simple to install, requiring no wiring installation or drilling.

Whether it’s an old or new building, large or small, a school, office, or hotel – this easily retrofittable solution manages indoor air quality by measuring room temperature, relative humidity and CO2 levels to ensure cleaner and safer room climates with vastly reduced costs.

Benefits

Smooth Connectivity

Scalable system easily adaptable to any unique space

Easy integration with Siemens or 3rd party building management system

Reliable and secure communications

Efficiency

Use data collection to continually improve efficiency

Enhance building comfort, safety and performance

Reduced installation, deployment, commissioning and maintenance time

Flexibility

Simple mounting with no need to drill or install wires

Ideal for new to retrofit and small to large buildings

Endlessly scalable and flexible in any type of building

Solution components

Siemens Wireless Room is designed to conquer room challenges with ease. Create a fit-for-purpose solution using easy to install and integrate components:

Wireless Room Unit

For measurement and adjustment of temperature

  • Integrated temperature sensor
  • LED touch-display
  • Up to 4 years battery lifetime
  • Easy mounting (wall, flush, tape mount)
  • Change of value (COV) functionality

Wireless Room Sensor

The Wireless room sensor comes in three different variants depending on your measuring needs: For measurement and adjustment of temperature, relative humidity & carbon dioxide

  • High measurement accuracy up to ± 0.3°C
  • 3 variants:
    • Temperature
    • Temperature & Relative Humidity
    • Temperature, Relative Humidity & Carbon Dioxide
  • Configurable transmission rate (max. 1min)
  • LED touch-display
  • Up to 10 years battery lifetime
  • Super slim design (14mm and 18mm)
  • KNX IoT over Thread wireless communication
  • OEM colour and labelling option available
  • Easy mounting (wall, flush, tape mount)

Change of value (COV) functionality

Wireless Thread Mesh Extender

The Thread mesh extender can be used as range extender/repeater between wireless end devices and the KNX IoT to BACnet IP gateway

  • Compact and unobtrusive design
  • Easy to install and commission
  • USB type C power supply
  • Compatible with all Siemens KNX IoT over Thread devices
  • Acts as repeater for Thread wireless range extension
  • Reliable network operation with mesh network functionality
  • Mains powered by external power supply adapter
  • Reliable self-healing thread mesh network technology

KNX IoT to BACnet IP gateway

The KNX IoT to BACnet IP gateway connects the wireless KNX IoT/Thread end devices to BACnet systems via BACnet IP communication over Ethernet

  • KNX IoT to BACnet IP conversion
  • KNX IoT over Thread wireless communication
  • BACnet IP over Ethernet communication
  • Harmonised design
  • Easy installation (wall & ceiling mount)
  • Easy commissioning of wireless end devices and BACnet endpoints via web UI
  • External power supply with international socket adapters included
  • 100 connected end devices per gateway (with 23 mesh extenders)

Where it’s effective

Flexible Office Spaces

Rapidly deploy the wireless room solution in an open space office that changes its use

  • Changing tenants
  • Adaptable office spaces
  • Variable-use environments

Any Sized Commercial Building

Implement in any building, particularly multi-room premises

  • Small to large size buildings
  • Deployable on existing or new buildings
  • Hospitality, Education, Hotels

Why You Need It

No building damage

When existing buildings need to be retrofitted with additional or new building automation equipment, pulling wires can be complex and inconvenient with walls and ceilings needing to be opened just for pulling the wires. This creates increased work, time delays, dirt and sometimes even damage to cultural heritage. Siemens Wireless Room Solution offers a great alternative in retrofit projects –as no extra wiring is necessary.

Sustainability

In an average 5 floor office building, more than 12 km of wires are run just for HVAC systems. This equals to more than 500 kg of cable and thus around 250 kg of pure copper. Wireless installations can save up to 80% of these resources by using less material during installation. Additionally wireless devices are often designed to be energy efficient and use less power than wired devices leading to much lower environmental impact.

Save time and money

Wireless communication can save days, weeks or even months of wiring of sensors, actuators, controllers, lighting, switches and other devices. Installation time and work is highly reduced and building solutions are deployed more easily according to unique needs. These factors minimise costs making wireless solutions economically very attractive in comparison to wired technologies.

Optimal position & clean design

Wireless products offer more versatility in deployment location. As they are not tethered by cables they can be effectively placed anywhere. There is no longer a need to consider wiring & rewiring, cable ducts, special mounting adapters or other obstacles. Wireless products also offer a more appealing visual design with the removal of wires providing an overall sleeker, less cluttered installed appearance.

Secure wireless updates

Most existing wired standards for building automation are still using analogue or unencrypted digital protocols. This increases the risk of faulty signals and creates potential security threats. Modern wireless technologies like KNX IoT over Thread, are based on IPv6 communication with end-to-end encryption. Additionally, the over-the-air update function makes sure that security updates are easily and quickly transmitted to every device simultaneously, with total user control on when and how the updates are installed is guaranteed.

Conquer room challenges with Siemens Wireless Room Solutions:

Talk to CSL about your building requirements with Simon Huxtable via email or on +64 21 297 6186

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