Point of Interest overview

Point of Interest (POI) is another key feature of the Lens™ app. POI enables the following:

• Provisioning of PassiveLogic® devices
• Digital asset management

Points of interest can be added in the scanning mode as you create new scans or if you restart a room scan. You can provision Sense Nano™ sensors from this menu. POI also enables tagging assets with a name, a photo, the geolocation within the building, and other information such as quantity and condition.

Devices and POIs are added to the digital twin of your building (and represented in Quantum™) and available in the other PassiveLogic® applications.

Adding a point of interest

To add a point of interest during the scanning process:

1. Once a room has been scanned (or while you scan a room), tap the Open POI button.
   To add POI to a wall, the wall must be part of the scan before the POI menu will open.
2. The POI menu opens with three options:
   • Add a POI marker
   • Add a Sense Nano sensor to the scan and provision it 
     (See “Provisioning Sense Nano sensors”)
   • Add a Hive™ controller to the scan (this option will be enabled in a future release)
3. Aim the target at the POI you want to add, then tap the POI button.
   Lens takes a picture of the POI, and then the label panel opens.
   
4. Select or enter a label, and then tap the button.
   You can also tap the microphone button and speak a custom label.
   
   The marked POI will be added to your scan and you will see an orange dot on the POI and a marker in the 2D floor plan once the scan is optimized.

Provisioning Sense Nano sensors

As you are scanning a room and building a digital twin, you can provision a Sense Nano sensor that is installed in the space. See “Sense Nano: Installation” for sensor installation instructions.

To add and provision Sense Nano sensors to your digital twin:

1. Once a room has been scanned (or while you scan a room), tap the Open POI button.

   To add any POI to a wall, the wall must be scanned before the POI menu will open.

2. To add a Sense Nano sensor, aim the target at the installed Sense Nano you want to add.
3. Tap the Sense Nano POI button.
   This will open the provisioning (Diagnostics) mode and a hexagon will appear on screen.
   
4. Align the hexagon on the screen of your device with the hexagon of the PassiveLogic logo on the Sense Nano.
5. Once aligned, tap the Provision button at the bottom of the screen. 
   Your phone will flash to communicate with the sensor and you will see progress indicators.
   
6. Hold your device camera steady to keep the hexagons aligned until Success appears.

Once the provisioning process is completed, your device will connect to the sensor and the app will enter the monitoring screen.

In this view you can do the following:

• Tap a square to select the type of data displayed on the graph.
• Tap the Interval menu to select the desired cached data time interval.
  Live shows you data from the time you connect to when you tap Done.
• Tap a point on the graph to view data at a specific time.
  Touch and hold, then drag on the graph data to view additional points in time.
• Tap the Sensors menu to view or change the sensor or sensors you are monitoring.
• Check the Sense Nano battery.

When you first connect you may see N/A in the parameter block, but this should fill in with the measured values once the data begins to stream. 

Note: For a wire-free Sense Nano, the Air Quality block will display N/A (see middle image) because the Air Quality sensor value can be displayed only if the Sense Nano is wired with external power (see right-hand image for wired example).

 

Deprovisioning with Lens

You can deprovision (or reset) a Sense Nano sensor that is installed and provisioned using Lens. See the “Sense Nano: Removal” for sensor removal instructions.

To reset a provisioned Sense Nano sensor in Lens:

1. Go to the room where the Sense Nano sensor is located.
   Make sure you are using the same PassiveLogic account used to provision the sensor and that you are within 100 feet of it.

2. Open Lens.

3. On the Portfolios screen, tap the building with the Sense Nano, then tap the floor it’s on.

4. Tap the Asset View button at the bottom right corner.

5. Swipe the Sense Nano card left to show Deprovision and Delete buttons.

6. Tap the blue Decommission button, then Decommission Sensor to complete the process.

   Note: The sensor needs to be awake and communicating with your phone for you to decommission it. If it is not awake, the connection screen opens. Align the hexagons, then tap the Connect button and hold your phone steady to connect. When the sensor wakes up, the decommissioning process proceeds.

   

Lens sends a message wirelessly to the sensor to decommission it. You will see a single orange light flash above the logo on the sensor face to indicate it was successfully decommissioned.

Once decommissioned, the sensor is removed from the Asset View and the floor plan, and is no longer part of your building digital twin.

 

Resetting manually

You can reset a Sense Nano sensor by using the hardware reset button. On the back of the device, hold down the reset button until the second light flashes. This will return the Sense Nano sensor to factory settings.

See the “Sense Nano: Removal” for sensor removal instructions. 

Accessing Sense Nano data

After you have provisioned a Sense Nano™ sensor, you can view its data in the cloud using the Live web app. This option lets you choose the time interval for viewing in a graph and also download a .csv file if desired. 

You can also access data from a Sense Nano when you are in the building by connecting your iPhone to it with Lens™. You have two options for accessing this data summarized below.

To diagnose or view data from a single Sense Nano sensor:

1. Stand near the Sense Nano that you want to get sensor data from, then open Lens.
2. On the Portfolios screen, tap the Diagnostic button in the lower right corner.
3. Align the hexagon on the screen of your device with the hexagon of the PassiveLogic logo on the Sense Nano until their edges are aligned.
4. Once aligned, tap the Connect button.
   Your phone will flash to communicate with the sensor.
   
   You will see an orange outline fill in around the hexagon on the screen during the process.
5. Hold the camera steady until you see Connecting.

Once the devices are connected, the app displays the monitoring screen. When it first connects you may see N/A in the parameter blocks, but this should fill in with the measured values once the data begins to stream. 

Note: For a wire-free Sense Nano the Air Quality block will display N/A because the Air Quality sensor value will be displayed only if the Sense Nano is wired with external power.

To view data from a Sense Nano sensor via the asset view:

If you are working with many sensors in a building, it may be helpful to access their data through the asset view option to keep an organized approach.

1. Open the Lens application.
2. On the Portfolios screen, tap the building in which you want to view the assets.
3. Tap the Asset view button in the bottom right-hand corner.
4. Tap the floor to view the assets assigned to that floor.
5. Tap the Sense Nano asset that you want to view.
   
6. Align the hexagon on the screen of your device with the hexagon of the PassiveLogic logo on the Sense Nano until their edges are aligned.
7. Once aligned, tap the Connect button.
   Your phone will flash to communicate with the sensor and you will see an orange outline fill in around the hexagon on the screen during the process.
8. Hold the camera steady until you see Connecting.

Once the devices are connected, the app displays the monitoring screen. When it first connects you may see N/A in the parameter blocks, but this should fill in with the measured values once the data begins to stream. 

 

Note: For a wire-free Sense Nano the Air Quality block will display N/A because the Air Quality sensor value will be displayed only if the Sense Nano is wired with external power.