Latest product innovations

The BlueRange OS for smart buildings consists of the BlueRange IoT platform, which offers the visualization of all collected sensor data for analysis and further processing via the BlueRange Dashboard. The OS is supplemented by various mobile applications (BlueRange Setup App, BlueRange Office App, BlueRange Wall App and BlueRange FM App), which enable a variety of digital use cases in buildings for different target groups. As part of the continuous development of the range of services for different target groups, a wide range of functions are continuously added and existing functions optimized.

Mass creation of building elements with simultaneous device assignment

Additional rooms can be created in the room list at floor level. In addition to room positioning on the floor plan, devices can also be assigned in the same step.

The creation and assignment of several rooms and devices can be carried out successively by adding more rooms and then saved collectively.

The room assignment of devices is required for control zones in which certain groups of devices are controlled via a room control device. This is used, for example, in meeting rooms in which several ceiling lights are controlled via a room control device.

At room level, the addition of zones and the assignment of devices can be carried out analogously to the room system and as a batch process, for example to map a workstation occupancy.

Automatic assignment of devices to the building structure

Devices positioned on a floor plan can be easily assigned to rooms and zones using automatic assignment. The automatic assignment for selected devices can be carried out using a wizard using the “Assign building element” button in the respective device list for networks and floors.

If only certain rooms or zones are relevant, all unnecessary building elements can be excluded from assignment.

The system then recognizes in which existing rooms and zones positioned devices are located and provides an overview of the current situation.

It should be noted that devices may already be assigned to a current room and/or zone, but are located in a different room or zone based on their positioning on the floor plan. Based on the overview, you can now decide which devices should be assigned to the underlying building components. Clicking the “Save” button will accept all selected suggestions and automatically assign the devices to new rooms and new zones.

If two building elements of the same element type overlap and the device positioning is within the intersection of two rooms or zones, automatic assignment cannot be carried out. The device is excluded from the assignment with a note.

Display of device availability

BlueRange regularly records the status of all devices. The new “Device availability” view under sensor diagrams for a floor can be used to track the availability of selected devices over a definable period of time. The value 100% indicates that a device is online and accessible, whereas 0% signals that a device has failed. The visualization of device availability makes it possible to determine downtimes in order to identify possible sources of error. The causes of this can be power and network failures as well as problems with the hardware itself.

Expansion of the health status for floors and networks

The floor and network overview shows the respective status for each floor or network. A network is basically functional and is marked as green if the BlueRange gateway is accessible. The floor status is the sum of all network statuses on this floor. If an associated network is affected and the gateway is offline, the floor status is displayed as red. A new badge now also reports the number of all other inactive/non-compliant devices per floor or network.

Live room maps for sensor types

The visualization of recorded sensor values ​​at room level is now also available in real time. At floor level, for example, the current air temperature for all rooms created with a temperature sensor can be displayed in the room map. If several sensors are assigned to a room, the average value is determined.

Optimized navigation

A hierarchical tree structure allows clear navigation within the individual main areas of the information structure. The breadcrumb navigation also provides orientation and the option of quickly switching to other building elements, networks or devices within the selected navigation path using a pre-filtered search.

Global search

The global search offers targeted navigation to specific networks, devices, configurations, floors, rooms or zones at any time.

Note

Version 5.24.1 is required to use the functions. Further adjustments can be viewed in the BlueRange technical changelog.