Optimize Workspace Utilization with the Browan LoRaWAN® Desk Occupancy Sensor

Enable smarter facility management and enhance energy efficiency with the Browan Desk Occupancy Sensor (TBMS100). This compact LoRaWAN® device utilizes advanced dual Passive Infrared (PIR) technology to accurately detect human presence and motion, making it ideal for monitoring occupancy of desks, offices, meeting rooms, or common areas. By providing reliable real-time occupancy data, the TBMS100 helps optimize space utilization, automate building controls (like lighting and HVAC), and inform operational decisions. Manusphere can help integrate this sensor into your smart building or facility management platform.

Solving Workspace and Facility Management Challenges

Understanding how spaces are actually used is key to efficiency. The TBMS100 sensor provides critical data for:

• Challenge: Optimizing the use of shared workspaces, hot desks, or meeting rooms based on actual demand and utilization patterns.
• Solution: Reliably detects presence using dual PIR sensors with a wide angle (123°H x 93°V) and up to 7m range, reporting occupancy status changes and providing regular updates via LoRaWAN®.

• Challenge: Reducing energy consumption by controlling lighting and HVAC systems based on real-time occupancy rather than schedules.
• Solution: Provides immediate occupancy detection signals that can be used to trigger building automation systems, ensuring lights and climate control are active only when spaces are in use.

• Challenge: Gathering data to inform decisions about space planning, resource allocation, or scheduling cleaning services effectively.
• Solution: Offers specific reporting logic: sends an uplink upon detecting activity, reports status every 10 minutes while occupied, reports hourly when unoccupied, and sends an alert when vacancy is detected, providing clear usage insights.

• Challenge: Deploying occupancy sensors easily and cost-effectively across numerous locations without complex wiring.
• Solution: Features a small, lightweight design powered by a single ½ AA Li-SOCl2 battery (up to 16 months estimated lifetime*) and communicates wirelessly using LoRaWAN®, allowing for simple placement on desks, walls, or ceilings.

Key Features & Benefits for Smart Facilities

Accurate Occupancy Detection

Leverages dual PIR detectors combined with a Fresnel lens for reliable detection of human presence and motion within a wide area, minimizing false positives and negatives.

Defined Occupancy Reporting Logic

Provides clear status updates optimized for occupancy monitoring: immediate notification upon detecting presence, periodic updates while occupied, less frequent updates when vacant, and notification upon vacancy.

Energy Efficiency Enablement

Integrate sensor data with building management systems to automate lighting and HVAC controls based on actual space usage, leading to significant energy savings.

Long Battery Life & Compact Design

Designed for extended operation (up to 16 months*) on a single battery, reducing maintenance effort. The small size (50x50x20mm) allows for unobtrusive installation in various office and facility environments.

Reliable LoRaWAN® Communication

Utilizes the LoRaWAN® 1.0.3 standard for dependable, long-range data transmission across EU, US, and Asian frequency bands, integrating easily into your IoT infrastructure.

Technical Specifications: Browan Desk Occupancy Sensor (TBMS100)

Ideal Industrial & Commercial Applications:

• Monitoring desk and office occupancy for hot-desking management and space optimization.
• Tracking meeting room usage to improve scheduling and resource allocation.
• Automating lighting and HVAC systems in common areas, offices, and restrooms based on presence.
• Gathering utilization data for facility planning and operational efficiency improvements.
• Presence detection in low-traffic areas for security awareness or operational triggers.

Unlock data-driven insights into your workspace utilization with the Browan Desk Occupancy Sensor. Manusphere provides integration services to connect these sensors to your preferred platforms, enabling smarter facility operations and significant energy savings. Contact us to learn more.

For original manufacturer specifications, please refer to the Browan motion/occupancy sensor product information.