Towards a new era of intelligent environmental sensing
Helvar Senses enables stakeholders to now intelligently optimise indoor environmental conditions and thereby create more adaptable and sustainable spaces. By adding additional sensing capabilities to lighting control systems, which typically have a very dense network of sensors, Helvar Senses allows buildings to unlock valuable new insights about indoor conditions and use this data to improve and evolve over their lifetime. Helvar’s partnership with SAF Tehnika’s Aranet brand played an important role in the development of this revolutionary new solution, and similar collaboration and expertise-sharing will be integral for driving industry change and bringing truly impactful innovations to the market.
Leading the way through expert partnership
As Helvar strengthens its offering for smart buildings, the value of partnership and interoperability with SAF Tehnika and their brand Aranet is seen as crucial for providing continued benefits to building occupants, owners and designers. Helvar believes that modern buildings and buildings of the future should continuously learn and evolve over their occupied lifetime, and that this capability is essential for improving the environmental, social and economic impact of the built environment. Such continuous improvements should be applicable across building systems and services, breaking traditional building technology ‘silos’ to provide the best energy performance, the lowest carbon emissions and a world-class occupant experience.
“Helvar Senses can interact with other building services to create the best occupant experience with the lowest possible emissions. By breaking free from traditional building system silos, we can unlock the full potential of buildings and help them to continuously learn over their lifetime”, says Thet Oo, Director of Wired Solutions at Helvar.
By partnering with Aranet, Helvar can integrate further environmental sensing capabilities to its Helvar Senses solution; a testament to Helvar’s vision of intelligent systems that can wirelessly and directly link with Aranet sensors. Through this seamless integration, Helvar’s system sensors can collect an expanded array of environmental data from indoor spaces, while ‘extension sensors’ simultaneously widen the scope for application areas and further improve data quality. Helvar’s cloud-based Insights platform can then maximise value and enable data-driven decisions by analysing and presenting the data in an easy-to-use interface. Soon, Helvar Insights will even be able to recommend where space conditions are not optimal for energy performance and occupant experience.
Martins Pavasars, Business Development Manager at Aranet, comments on the partnership: “At Aranet, we are constantly developing new ways to sense the environment, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in building technology. For instance, our work on integrating advanced radon sensors into building systems is a key example of how we can contribute to healthier and safer indoor environments. By partnering with Helvar, we can seamlessly integrate these innovations into a broader smart building ecosystem, ultimately providing building operators with even more valuable insights.”
For press enquiries and further details about Helvar’s partnership with Aranet, please contact marketing@helvar.com or info@aranet.com
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About Helvar
Helvar is an international lighting technologies company specialising in intelligent and energy-saving lighting solutions. Intelligent lighting is essential to achieving optimal building sustainability and to supporting the wellbeing of every person using a space. Helvar lighting control solutions and luminaire components help to create smart environments built for the future, harnessing data, creating tangible insights, and integrating seamlessly with other systems. With 100 years of expertise, Helvar serves its customers locally with offices in Finland, the UK and Sweden and via their global network of partners in over 75 countries.
With over 275,000 global projects spanning all industries and applications, Helvar’s offering ranges from world-class drivers and components through to wired and wireless lighting control solutions, supported by the latest cloud-based digital services platform: a future-proof end-to-end solution for Brighter Spaces.
About SAF Tehnika
Aranet, a brand within the Wireless IoT ecosystem of sensors and Cloud solutions, is owned by SAF Tehnika JSC – a Latvia-based company with over 25 years of expertise in microwave communication solutions. Aranet’s sensor and cloud ecosystem provides rich data insights for various indoor environments and integrates seamlessly into management platforms. Maintaining precise environmental conditions with wireless sensors reduces energy consumption and costs, fostering sustainable business practices. Aranet is the go-to solution for new and retrofitted buildings, with wireless capabilities and long-lasting sensors that reduce maintenance costs. It is chosen as a benchmark for wireless sensors by many businesses globally.