Axis reveals its first smart environmental sensors
Eve Goode
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Axis Communications has revealed the company’s first environmental sensors.
According to the company, the new sensors monitor multiple indoor air quality parameters, enabling efficient and appropriate response to indoor air quality issues, including vaping and smoking, and the proactive management and optimisation of air quality in almost any indoor environment.
Indoor air pollution
The World Health Organisation estimates that each year 3.2 million deaths are caused by indoor air pollution worldwide.
Axis’ two new sensors, both developed in-house, integrate with existing Axis solutions to monitor air pollutants such as:
- Particulate matter
- Volatile organic compounds
- Nitrogen oxides
- Carbon dioxide
The sensors are able to measure this as well as measuring relative humidity and temperature.
“Detected and restricted effectively”
Robert Woyar, Global Product Manager at Axis Communications commented: “Poor indoor air quality is a significant public health issue.
“Student vaping has reached epidemic levels within schools and needs to be detected and restricted effectively.”
Woyar continued: “Certain specific facilities, for example, data centres and controlled manufacturing environments, require precise control of air quality parameters, such as relative humidity, temperature and the level of particulate matter. Our new indoor air quality sensor supports in all these areas and more.”
AXIS D6210 and AXIS D6310
AXIS D6210
The company states that the AXIS D6210 will be available in the first half of 2025 and can be integrated with certain other Axis IP devices, including a number of cameras and a strobe siren and used in combination with Axis speakers.
It is connected to compatible Axis IP devices without the need for additional IP addresses, switch ports or power to give customers a cost effective, “plug-and-play” solution to air quality monitoring and response.
AXIS D6310
The AXIS D6310 is set to be available by the end of 2025. It has the same air quality sensing capabilities as AXIS D6210 but is a standalone IP network device and can be added independently to an existing Axis solution with additional functionality.
Axis claims the sensor will include:
- Multi-LED strobe function for sensor status and alerts
- Integrated speaker and microphone
- Power-over-Ethernet (PoE)-out
- Passive infrared (PIR) sensor
- AXIS Audio Analytics
Benefits
According to the company, depending on the environment and use case, AXIS D6210 and AXIS D6310 will help to create a healthy and safe environment for employees and visitors, improve operational efficiency and energy consumption, and create data which delivers business intelligence to further support long-term operational planning.
For instance, real-time indoor air quality monitoring enables there to be a response to air quality issues that might present a health issue.
Alerts from the sensor, along with live and pre-recorded messages from IP speakers can clear specific areas of buildings until remedial action to improve air quality has been taken.
Insight into specific air quality parameters such as temperature, relative humidity and air pollutants, supports more precise management of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems with the added benefit of improved energy efficiency, the company notes.
Over time, metadata created by the indoor air quality sensor, combined with other sensor data such as occupancy levels, will provide business intelligence for longer-term ‘smart building’ planning and optimisation.
“Ever-increasing value”
Robert Woyar added: “AXIS D6210 and AXIS D6310 Air Quality Sensors might be our first environmental sensors but won’t be the last.
“The potential for connecting data from multiple different sensors in health and safety, operational efficiency and business intelligence is obvious and almost unlimited.
“Our growing portfolio of IP devices, combined with the open Axis platform and innovative applications from our global partners will deliver ever-increasing value to customers,” he concluded.
