Sense Nano Early Access overview

The Sense Nano™ is a multi-sensor environmental monitoring device that features:

• Seven environmental data parameters: air temperature, radiant temperature, humidity, indoor air quality, atmospheric pressure, light intensity, and occupancy data.
• 30-second, tool-less installation.
• Light powered through an onboard solar-charged battery (natural or ambient light).
• Wire-free or wired options for communication and power.
• Automatic networking and commissioning.

Sense Nano Early Access functionality

The Early Access program includes two Sense Nano sensors (wire-free and wired installation) that communicate with the PassiveLogic® Lens™ app on iOS devices via Bluetooth.

When commissioned, the Early Access Nano sensors continually cache 7 days worth of environmental data at 5-minute intervals and when connected to Lens, they report real-time environmental data at 5-second intervals.

• Wire free*: When you connect Lens to a wire-free Sense Nano, the sensor switches to a rapid-reporting state with a sample rate of 5 seconds for 5 minutes. In this state you can monitor real-time data, retrieve cached data, and export data. After 5 minutes, the sensor will terminate the connection with your iOS device ending the session.
• Wired: For a wired Nano, as long as you are connected to the sensor via Lens, can you monitor real-time environmental data with a 5-second sample rate, retrieve cached data with a 5-minute sample rate, and export data.

*Note: For Early Access we recommend that you only connect to and retrieve data from the wire-free Sense Nano once or twice an hour due to the amount of power consumed by the process. If you want to connect more frequently, please use the wired Nano installed on the Early Access Stand.

 

Sense Nano technical specifications

*Indoor air quality is measured directly from total volatile organic compounds (TVOCs).
**For the Early Access release, Bluetooth Mesh trilateration will not be utilized.
***For the Early Access release, the bracket can be attached with the included adhesive strips.

Sense Nano dimensions diagram

 

Lens Early Access overview

Lens™ is an iOS mobile app in the PassiveLogic software ecosystem that enables you to

• Scan existing buildings to quickly create Quantum™ digital twins of the space.
• Communicate with Sense Nano sensors for commissioning and retrieving environmental data.
• View real-time and stored environmental data from Sense Nano sensors.

3D scanning

The most accurate and up-to-date way to describe a building is by scanning it directly, instead of drawing or piecing it together from old plans. Using Lens on an Apple iPhone Pro with a built-in lidar scanner, you can quickly and accurately scan an existing building to generate complete 3D building geometry models. Lens provides a simple and inexpensive way to accurately capture three-dimensional spatial data of your building interiors and automatically generate a Quantum™ digital twin. All data processing is done on your iOS device—you see results in real time.

Commissioning and capturing data

You can also use Lens to quickly set up networks of PassiveLogic devices in your building. For example, stick the Sense Nano sensor on the wall, then wake it up with your smartphone camera flashlight and the sensor will securely and automatically connect to the wireless sensor network. With Lens, view all the available real-time environmental data from one, several, or all sensors; download and view cached data from a sensor; export sensor data as a CSV file; or query directly from Quantum Explorer™.

Lens Early Access functionality

For this release, Lens relies on a combination of automated scan data analysis and user input to identify and label features of in the 3D building scan data. Lens digital twin building data will be automatically available in other PassiveLogic applications via QuantumSync™ data synchronization.

Automated analysis: Lens automatically recognizes walls, windows, and doors when it processes the scanned lidar point cloud data into 3D digital twin building models.

User input: The user provides real-time input by tapping the screen of their iOS device during scanning. This marks wall surfaces within the point cloud data that serve as anchor points for data processing.

Point of Interest (POI): During scanning, POI allows the user to add devices and other interesting features of a building and tag them with a name, a photo, and a geolocation within the digital twin. You can also accurately locate and commission the Sense Nano sensors in the building digital twin.

Recommended devices for Early Access compatibility

3D spatial scanning with Lens requires the following lidar equipped iPhones running iOS version 18 or later:

• iPhone 12 Pro or Pro Max
• iPhone 13 Pro or Pro Max
• iPhone 14 Pro or Pro Max
• iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max
• iPhone 16 Pro or Pro Max
• iPhone 17 Pro or Pro Max

Note: iPad Pros will be supported by future versions of Lens for 3D spatial scanning, but they are not recommended at this time.

Getting Lens for Early Access

To use the Early Access version of Lens you need to create a PassiveLogic account and you must have an Apple iPhone 12 Pro or Pro Max or later (see "Recommended devices for Early Access compatibility" above). 

To create your account type passivelogic.com/app/login/ in a desktop browser (Chrome preferred), click Sign up and follow the directions. When you have your account, log in and you will be directed to the PassiveLogic Portfolio™ app. Click the Lens app icon, then scan the QR code with your iPhone (the code is also on the Let’s Get Started… card provided with your Early Access kit). You will be invited to install the Apple TestFlight app so you can join the beta, install Lens, then use and test the Early Access version of the app.