Air energy meters configured and monitored as a network

The task

Anyone who wants to allocate the ventilation costs of a building to its consumers has to measure the air flow and the energy it carries. Luftmeister, a sister company of halstrup-walcher, developed the air meter and the air energy meter for this purpose; they reduce operating costs and allow ventilation costs to be split fairly.

A single meter is manageable. A building has many, and they should be configured, managed and monitored as a network.

The solution

We developed embedded software modules for the meters and, as the main focus, designed, programmed and tested a PC tool that configures, manages and monitors entire device networks. With it, the system answers questions such as whether enough exhaust air is removed, whether critical zones get enough air and whether the air change is ensured.

The result

A measuring system operated as a whole across the building, and a contribution to a product that saves energy by making it visible.