When performing interior caretaking services for public buildings, the cleaning service provider companies can get blamed for problems with the indoor climate. Executive Engineering, in cooperation with the Universitair Centrum voor Bouwtechniek and Eindhoven University of Technology, has developed an indoor-climate-monitoring system which can be used by the cleaning staff to determine the interior climate in a room or building.
The “Gebouw-Gezondheids-Monitor Sensor Module”, which is Dutch for Building-Health-Monitor Sensor Module is a standalone CO2, temperature and humidity logging system, equipped with a LiPo battery pack, RFID communication, 2GB of built-in storage and a interior climate warning LED.
In the pilot project, currently running at 10 primary schools in the Netherlands, cleaning staff is equipped with a smartphone on which they see, per room, the cleaning activities that need to take place. The smartphone also wirelessly scans the information in the sensor logger module, providing information about the interior climate of the last few days. This information is then centrally stored for the service provider to analyze. By monitoring the interior climate sick building syndrome can be overcome and overall wellbeing in public buildings can be improved.
For more information visit the site of the OSB: www.osb.nl