How to Improve the Quality of Your Indoor Air

What activity do you spend more of your time doing than anything else? Breathing, of course! Yet, no matter how important it is to have access to safe, unpolluted air, the fact of the matter is that most people underestimate the importance of quality indoor air.

That is, at least until they develop chronic respiratory problems from constantly breathing in air that contained serious pollutants. In order to improve the overall quality of your indoor air, it’s necessary to use the correct tools for the job, and that means using cutting edge air monitoring equipment.

Use Sensors

The biggest obstacle to improving Indoor Air Quality is not having the proper tools to measure it. Unlike smog, pollutants in the indoor air environment are generally not visible. You could be breathing them in all day, for weeks or months at a time, and not even be aware that you’re doing so.

This can create major problems, since chronic exposure to even small amounts of pollutants can cause serious health problems. In order to make sure that your air quality is meeting high standards, you need to be using an air quality sensor, which will give you the necessary information on any pollutant issues before they become significant dangers to your health.

Clean Up Your Circulation

Indoor air quality can degrade over time precisely because there is so little circulation. The same stale air can get circulated and recirculated inside your home again and again, collecting more pollution and impurities that compound over time.

These impurities can settle into your ventilation system, ensuring that your air environment continues to degrade as you run heating or cooling systems. Make sure to use air circulators that will introduce fresh outdoor air into your home so that you don’t end up with stale, polluted air constantly circulating in your home.

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Inovonics Wireless Temperature Monitoring Products 

Inovonics EN1721

Inovonics wireless temperature monitoring products are designed to track temperature and other environmental conditions.

• The integrated Temperature/Humidity Transmitter Inovonics EN1721features an on board temperature and humidity sensor.  It transmits temperature and humidity periodically and upon significant change and has a measurement range of  -40° to 140°F and 0 to 90% relative humidity.  Typically, accuracy is 0.5°F and 2.0% relative humidity.  The platform used is EchoStream.
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• Uses include:
• Hospitals: 
• Monitor and log temperature data from appliances/devices that store vaccines, pharmaceuticals, patient food and tissue samples.
• Food Service: Monitor and log temperature data from appliances/devices that prepare, store and deliver food products.

Building Automation: Use temperature set points to efficiently operate steam traps and boilers.

Data Centers: Monitor temperature and humidity conditions to manage energy consumption costs and identify hot spots.

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E³Point = 

Efficient Operations + Energy Savings + Economical Value 

E³Point is capable of detecting the widest range of toxic and combustible gases found in commercial building spaces and outbuildings, including CO, NO2, O2, H2, H2S, CH4,C3H8. It can be used as a standalone unit with single or dual-gas detection (i.e. using a remote sensor) or deployed as a networkable device (interoperable with BACnet, Modbus or other Building Automation System); E³Point also functions with existing controller-based gas monitoring systems and wired-wireless gas monitoring system components.

Additional Features:  Flexible Operation, Cost Effective, Versatile Communications, and Advanced Sensing Technology

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Honeywell Analytics IAQPoint2  
Put Money in Your Pocket and Fresh Air in Your Building  

  To combat high levels of CO2, which can cause drowsiness and create an inefficient work environment,building managers sometimes choose to run the ventilation system continuously. This is an inefficient and costly practice. With Honeywell Analytics IAQPoint2 in place, the ventilation system can do its job appropriately and efficiently.  IAQPoint2 detects many gases common to building areas including carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, nitrogen dioxide and VOCs. 




 Features include: 

·         Menu driven, customizable, easy-to-navigate display

·         Large 1.9 x 2.6 in (4.9 x 6.5 cm) VGA screen with easy-to-read LCD digits graphical display

·         Simple wall- or duct-mount

·         Multi-analog or digital (BACnet, Modbus) options

·         DC and AC power; fits standard junction box

·         5 year sensor life with automatic self-calibration

·         Adjustable set-points and optional relay for local fan activation

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BMS: Building Management System (BMS)

Building Management Systems provide your office or workspace with an opportunity to monitor, interact and manage the internal systems of the building. Here are a few systems that can be managed by a Building Management System (BMS).

·         Building Automation Systems (BAS) – The centralized remote monitoring and control system includes electricity, plumbing, ventilation, water supply and environmental control systems.  A BAS utilizes a singular, centrally located device for controlling all of the systems to ensure reliable conditions for employees, tenants and machinery.

·         Security Automation System (SAS) – Safety is the most important function of BMS systems. This is classified as a SAS. A Security Automation System works with anti-theft, alarm and access control systems to ensure the safety of employees, equipment and nearby residents. The use of a SAS adds alarms to the existing control features to ensure that the proper management systems are notified of any breach in access.

·         Fire Automation System (FAS) – The Fire Automation System is usually a separate system as it used an independent network to communicate with the fire department during an emergency. In many cases, companies can have two levels of fire automation systems to notify the central control system as well as the proper emergency fire services.

Are you looking for BMS parts such as Greystone smoke detectors, Greystone temperature sensors or Belimo actuators? Check out the great selection at E-Controls.net. 

Smart Building: Providing Automation Systems for Your Business

Full autonomous control of your facility is a luxury that you can afford! Here are a few basics about how Building Automation Systems (BAS) work for you and for the efficiency of your company.

·         Sensors – Sensors can be used to determine CO2 output, as well as temperature, humidity, room occupancy and time of day.

·         Controllers – The controllers can be used to help modify the behavior of the systems. The sensors determine the need for a modification while the controller can then adjust to fit the appropriate room size, temperature or indoor air quality.

·         Output Devices – Devices include relays, air handlers, constant volume air-handling units, the hot water system and actuators.

·         Communications Protocols – The communication system used for your controllers, devices and sensors to all communicate is essential for a seamless use of the complicated systems.

·         User Interface – Having an intuitive system for management and employees to use can also be extremely important to the efficiency of the system. A user friendly interface will be used as the dashboard for easy communication to the BAS system.

Are you looking for components to a BAS for your business? Contact us at E-Controls.net today to find each part you need including sensors, controllers, output devices and interface systems. 

Siemens QFA Series for Precise Humidity Sensing

The Q-Series Outdoor Air Relative Humidity, and Relative Humidity & Temperature Sensors monitor and transmit changes in humidity and temperature to the building control systems. These units are especially suited for applications where precise, stable humidity sensing is required. Standard models are available for both humidity only and combination humidity with temperature sensing. Sensors are offered with either 4 to 20 mA or 0 to 10 Volt output signals.  Installation takes only about 30 minutes.  

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Zone Valves by Siemens

Siemen valves and actuators are highly dependable.  They range in size from ½ to 1-inch and provide excellent control of baseboard, fan coil, and radiant heat applications.  Zone valves are offered in a choice of interchangeable on/off, floating, and proportional actuators.  Direct-coupled technology allows for quick connection without tools.  The zone valves and actuators deliver superior control of water.

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SRPM ... Setra Room Pressure Monitoring for stringent pressure monitoring

 

E-controls.net would like to announce that we now carry the complete Pressure, Humidity and Current Switch lines from Setra Systems.  SRPM, the Setra Room Pressure Monitor, is Setra's standard single room BACnet capable room pressure monitor. Designed for pharmaceutical, hospital, semiconductor, clean rooms, research laboratories, and critical low differential pressure applications that require stringent pressure monitoring and alarming, the SRPM monitors the positive or negative pressure in protected environments and airborne infection isolation rooms per CDC guidelines. This monitor combines Setra’s proven and patented very low, pressure sensor technology with the latest in electronics, measuring and displaying highly accurate pressure readings to 0.001 inches of water column resolution.

The SRPM is a complete system that includes a convenient backlit RGB LCD display with an intuitive graphic user interface for pressure, security, calibration, and alarm setup. The convenient touch-screen allows fingertip access to menus that guide the user through setup. Visual Red and Green LEDs and a local audible alarm, with a time delay feature to prevent nuisance alarms, alert personnel to system status. The SRPM also features a SPDT relay output for remote indication of system status. 

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Why It’s Important to Maintain Your Air Quality Systems

When it comes to maintaining the quality of our personal environment, many of us will pay lots of attention to making sure that our water is filtered or that our food is organic and pure. However, lots of homeowners and business owners will still neglect the most important resource that is necessary for survival: our air.

Air quality, whether you’re in a private residence or a business, too often takes a backseat to other forms of environmental monitoring. This is a major mistake, since indoor air pollution can cause all sorts of detrimental effects. In order to ensure that your health doesn’t suffer, you should be making air quality monitoring a priority, and you should be ensuring that your monitoring systems are well-maintained.

Indoor Pollution

You should definitely make sure that all of your air quality monitoring systems is taken care of, from filtering to flow sensing, in order to ensure that you are safe from indoor pollution.

Indoor pollution can be even more damaging and ruinous to your health than heavy urban smog, because you can be exposed to indoor pollution for longer periods of time, often without any sense of the damage that it’s causing you. Without a properly maintained air quality system, you’ll be at the mercy of whatever particles and pollutants that your ventilation system has picked up over the years.

Keep Your Air Safe

A well-maintained air system will not only be beneficial for your health. It will limit you to liability exposure for any adverse health effects that could arise from unsafe air. In a business, poor air quality can mean the difference between a happy workforce and one that is constantly sick and unproductive.

What’s more, in a scenario where an employee developed chronic health problems due to poor air quality, the legal headaches would be immense. Avoid all that by properly maintaining your air quality systems.

Setra Current Switches

Setra is truly building innovation into building automation. Their current switches are offered with both Solid Core and Split Core design. Designed to measure low currents for fractional HP motors as well as currents up to 200 amps, these switches are ideal for monitoring fan, pump and blower motors. They utilize Setra’s own magnetic current sensing technology. The solid CSS model is ideal for new installations and provide the greatest savings. The CSS series is bundled with a mounting bracket and hardware for easy installation.  In existing applications, the CSC Split design can be clamped on to the power lines with no intrusion.  These units are offered with industry standard output and very low fixed or adjustable switch setpoints, which are activated when the desired amperage is reached.  The addition of the Snap-On Relay option, on either design, allows remote starting or stopping of fan and pump motors. For low cost, self-powered switches with simple installation visit e-controls.net for Setra sensing solutions.   CLICK HERE FOR SETRA CSC or CSS CURRENT SWITCHES

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Building Automation Systems and Why They Matter

Building Automation Systems have three main functions for the smart building. To understand the best reasons for a BAS, it is important for each business owner to see the benefits to the bottom line. Here are three motives to running your building through a BAS.

·         Save the Building Owner Money – Utility bills can be increasingly expensive for a company. The more efficient a building is, the less energy needed to power it. Having your building in sync with the common use of a room, or the median temperature outside can help to dictate the level at which the HVAC unit must run. With a decrease in manual alteration of these systems, they can perform at ideal levels.

·         Comfort/Productivity – The comfort of the occupants in a building can lead to higher productivity. Employees work best in a relaxed environment where they are not concerned with temperature or safety within their work zone. Keeping a building monitored properly will help to ease employees’ minds, as well as keep them comfortable to be their most productive.

·         Reduce Environmental Footprint – Improving overall performance within the building will help to decrease the later environmental factors that lead to the increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Indoor air quality can also be improved. This will continue to increase moral and employee comfort.

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E-Controls.net and Your Smart Business

A smart building is based around controlling and monitoring your building’s systems: fire, flood safety, lighting, HVAC, video security, mechanical and ventilation. Here at E-Controls, we pride ourselves on providing you with the latest in technology to ensure the best possible installation and BAS experience.

Building Automation Systems (BAS) are designed to keep your building at an appropriate climate, monitor the performance and function of systems, as well as alarm the appropriate facility managers of possible issues associated with the system. There are four main functions of the building automation system:

·         Control Building Environment – A component in the building is called the “controller” which is a computer to transmit information about the mechanical, electrical, plumbing, HVAC and security systems

·         Operate Systems – Operating the systems will help to keep all machines in working order and delivering your desired outcome

·         Monitor Performance – Efficiency is a large factor of BAS. Continued monitoring of performance can help an entire building perform at optimal levels

·         Alert or Alarm – Alarming when a system is faulty can be a primary focus of BAS. With the help of sensors and indicators, facility management can be made aware of any system issues, 24/7.

Are you looking for BAS parts? Check out our great selection at E-Controls.net including name brands such as Greystone, Honeywell Analytics, Belimo Actuators, Johnson Controls and more. 

Honeywell Analytics 301C Controller

Honeywell Analytics….

Providing Solutions for Safe Parking Garages

The Honeywell Analytics 301C Controller detects, monitors and controls gases.  It is energy efficiency and easy to install.  The controller can allow up to 126 zoning groups and can manage up to 180 events with programmable latching alarms.  Using an addressable RS-485 communication protocol, the 301C uses daisy chain wiring to connect up to 96 transmitters in three loops. This simplifies installation.  BACnet/IP is available. The 301C’s zoning, voting, and averaging abilities reduce operational and maintenance costs. When the 301C is used for a gas detection, your structure is compliant with the industry’s most demanding safety and energy guidelines. The 301C controller offers automatic sensor identification and unique zoning capabilities. Readings from transmitters can be evaluated by averaging or voting. For example, voting can be used to activate fans only when one-third of the sensors in a zone report gas, thus avoiding excessive response to a single car idling. Time delays can be configured to prevent false alarms or to reduce power cycling of a fan.  The controller can detect when a single sensor reading is higher than others. Responses can be made to match time of day, day of week, or other external input. This flexibility can precisely meet the needs of each installation, thus saving energy and extending equipment life.  The 301C controller provides a complete gas detection network for the intelligent building. 

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SEE OUR LINE OF BELIMO FIRE & SMOKE ACTUATORS

Nothing is more important than ensuring the safety of human life.  

Time is of the essence when occupants and firefighters must travel 

through a building filled with fire and smoke.  Since strategy varies 

with each situation, e-controls.net carries a complete line of Belimo fire and smoke actuators for a wide range of applications.  With low power consumption and no loss in performance due to temperature or supply voltage, they are highly efficient and provide maximum functionality for optimized safety.  

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USE GREYSTONE FOR POWER MONITORING

The SC series of Split-Core AC current switches activate a contact closure whenever the primary circuit current exceeds a pre-set level.  Several models are available including ones which feature integral LEDs to indicate device power and the switch status.  Most models include a multi-turn adjustment to set the trip threshold to the desired value.  Auto ranging eliminates lost jumpers.  All models are UL approved and CE compliant and feature solid-state reliability. 

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Greystone ULP Series

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 Greystone’s Ultra Low Pressure Transmitters are available in two models, analog or BACnet and are used to measure differential pressure.  These transmitters are ideal for monitoring pressure for air and other clean inert gases.  They have field selectable pressure ranges.  Precision high sensitivity silicon sensing capabilities are combined with ASIC technology to reduce offset errors.  Options include LCD to display the pressure value (standard on BACnet model).  

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Belimo ZoneTight Zone Valves

Belimo ZoneTight™ Zone Valves

Efficient in Every Way

The QCV ZoneTight Zone Valve leads the way in Belimo’s new generation of room and zone solutions. With a space-saving 2-way or 3-way ball valve and an electronic rotary actuator, the QCV is compact and offers a number of benefits over conventional pressure dependent control valves.  Zero leakage eliminates energy loss. ­ Self-cleaning ball valve technology provides clog resistance. ­ The QCV consumes up to 95% less power than conventional zone valves. ­ The QCV is field adjustable to meet your design requirements. Snap fitting, the QCV easily connects to the actuator allowing technicians to install valves quickly, easily, without the use of tools. Unlike conventional zone valve actuators, which are normally covered by pipe insulation, the stem extension on QCVs allows for easy actuator removal without damaging the surrounding insulation.

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Belimo Globe Valves

Belimo Globe Valves

Belimo globe valves are the perfect fit for applications such as unit ventilation and air handling units as well as water/steam control in other HVAC systems.  The adaptive stroke of actuator utilizes full control signal for maximum resolution.    The assembly can be mounted with valve stem horizontal to the pipe.  A self- locking valve coupling ensures a proper valve-actuator connection and visual sliding stroke indicators allow quick installation and system checks.

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