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September Newsletter: The Control Room, Rankings, Insights and Alerts 🚨

In case you missed it: A round-up of all our latest features in the AirSuite Portal

Brad Christensen, AirSuite Head of Product

16th Sep 2024

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Today’s newsletter is a shameless plug for the awesome features we’ve added over the last few months that we’re really excited about. The list was getting quite long, so we thought it was about time we talked about them! You may be using them already, but in case you missed anything, here’s a recap.

Now, you can:

• Manage your sensors grouped by property, region and climate zone, and see where each property ranks within your organisation, industry, and globally
• Get insights into your building performance
• Get alerts by email

And there’s more! Keep reading to find out how to start using all these new features to get the most out of your AirSuite sensor data.

Our hardware team have also been busy on our new Biochemical sensor add-on, which includes support for precise detection of specific gases, including Carbon Monoxide and Formaldehyde. Our early adopters will receive their first units in the coming months.

As always, we’re keen to hear what you think, and always looking for guidance to make sure we’re working on the most impactful things. You can reply to this email to send any feedback straight to me 😊

Best regards,
Brad and the AirSuite team

Manage sensors by property

The numbers don’t lie: our office is a great place to work! 😎 Our near-perfect scores across the board put us in the top 12% of all the properties we monitor. Can you say the same about your workplace?

The new property management dashboard is your “control room” view: for larger organisations who are managing sensors at dozens - or yes, even hundreds! - of locations, this is where you can see which properties need your attention.

We group your sensors into ‘properties’ automatically based on their location, which are named with a street address by default. We recommend you edit those names to be more easily recognisable: names like “Brad’s House” or “Waikato Office” are good choices.

With filters, you can drill down into specific population segments, including the region or climate zone (currently available for New Zealand regions, expanding soon!), or sub-organisation.

School managers have extra information at their fingertips, granting the ability to filter by school type and equity index (EQI).

We also recommend using the date comparison tool to identify impacts from seasonal variation.

Building Performance Insights

Please note that performance insights come with a “beta” tag for now: we’re still working on them, but we couldn’t wait to share them with you!

At AirSuite, we’re accustomed to manually analysing and inferring all sorts of information when we generate reports for our customers, but our goal is to train the system to do the analysis automatically, so that users can be empowered directly with the insights.

In collaboration with the New Zealand Ministry of Education, we’ve developed a number of algorithms to give you quick-access to high quality data analysis, including information such as the likely mould growth, ventilation performance, heating and cooling performance, insulation quality, natural light exposure, and the utilisation rate of the space.

You can now access these insights in three different places:

• In the new Properties page, where you can also filter and sort your list of properties based on those insight values.
• On the Deployments list - click on the new “⚙️ Display” button, and select “Insights”.
• On an individual sensor’s deployment page

Get Alerts to your Email

All users can now opt into receiving email notifications when sensors trigger alerts, with the following fine-grained control:

• Opt-in or out of alerts for organisations or specific deployments
• Which category of alerts you receive (environmental or diagnostics)
• Whether you receive notifications at the ‘warning’ or ‘critical’ threshold, or both
• The delay (minimum continuous active time) before a notification is sent

Some alert settings (such as which attributes generate alerts, and the thresholds) are controlled by organisation managers.

And more!

• You can now see more helpful box plot visualisations when you’re looking at more than 6 months of data
• We’ve improved the experience of reordering charts, and your preferred order is now saved across different pages
• You can now see scores and insights on the Deployments list
• We’ve been incorporating Occupancy into more places in the Portal, including our new, simplified scoring algorithm, and the building performance radar chart

Up next

• Upcoming Biochemical sensor add-on: rolling out to early adopters in the coming months with support for detecting CO, SO₂, HCHO, and NOx. With long life and low cross-sensitivity, this precise gas detection add-on board is designed to complement our existing broad spectrum volatile organic compound (VOC) coverage.
• New reporting tools: now that we’ve built some powerful tools to allow you to interrogate your data, we want to automatically identify what’s important to look at, and put the information directly in your hands.
• Improving performance insights precision: to make the results of our insight algorithms more accurate, we need to collect some more information about your space, such as the number of occupants and the size of the room.
• Further improvements to organisation, property and device management: the admin never stops! As our partner organisations evolve, there is an ongoing need to keep track of devices and people. Expect to see us continuously chip away in this space.

If you have ideas you’d like to see implemented, let us know! We’re always keen to hear your feedback.

Best regards,
Brad and the AirSuite team