How IoT helps monitor indoor air quality

Digita’s nation-wide LoRaWAN network utilises LoRa (Long Range) technology, which is the first technology in the world to be developed specifically for the Internet of Things and has already grown to become a global telecommunications standard. IoT solutions based on LoRaWAN are inexpensive, long-lasting and practically maintenance free. The sensors they utilise are lightweight and simple to install, and they have a battery life of up to ten years.

LoRaWAN offers a number of options for monitoring indoor spaces

Monitoring the quality of indoor air in both public spaces and at home is a timely concern. In particular, indoor air in many schools and day-care centres and its effects on health have sparked much conversation and led to many corrective measures. Absences due to illness resulting from allergic reactions and asthma symptoms are a not-insignificant strain on the national economy – reducing them has been estimated to lead to savings of up to billions of euros. The proportion of allergic reactions and asthma symptoms resulting from indoor air has been estimated at approximately 75%, revealing the crucial role indoor air quality plays.

Good indoor air quality is also important for residential satisfaction and economic living. Digita’s goal is to give developers and corporate landlords the means to develop new services that improve living comfort and energy efficiency.

Our modern LoRaWAN network makes it possible to collect comprehensive and high-quality environmental data from both residential and working spaces, allowing for measures to be taken to ensure high indoor air quality based on that information.

Monitoring applications include:

• Temperature and humidity
• Carbon dioxide content of indoor air
• Volatile inorganic compounds (VOC)
• Air pressure differential between indoor and outdoor air
• Effects of outdoor conditions on indoor air

Are you interested in hearing more about how IoT can help monitor indoor air quality?

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Pyry Puntari

Sales Manager, IoT Services

+358 400 588 407 pyry.puntari@digita.fi

IoT is part of Digita’s day-to-day business

Digita is a steadfast and reliable Finnish company with a complete Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure up and running, ready to act as a service platform for the applications of its customers and partners.

Our nation-wide LoRaWAN network utilises LoRa (Long Range) technology, which is the first technology in the world to be developed specifically for the Internet of Things and has already grown to become a global telecommunications standard. The data produced by the low-power sensors connected to the network can be transferred via a robust and reliable wireless connection across long distances.

LoRaWAN networks have a number of applications on construction sites

When it comes to construction, quality, quality assurance and reliability are critical factors in success. The IoT solutions based on Digita’s LoRaWAN technology offer many opportunities for improvement in these areas. The ability to collect data in real time where conditions previously had to be monitored using manual measurements is a key feature of our IoT solutions.

In cooperation with our partners (especially Mato Engineering and Wiiste), Digita has developed various sensor solutions that utilise the LoRaWAN network for construction industry companies. You can learn more about these solutions here, here and in our downloadable brochure (download PDF). Applications that have already been tested at construction sites include:

• Moisture monitoring inside concrete structures
• Keeping wood structures dry
• Geolocation of construction equipment
• Site safety and access control

In addition, sensors also offer numerous other new monitoring opportunities that can boost working efficiency on a large construction site and bring added value to the completed project. Below you will find some examples we can use to start putting together the perfect solution for you.

Get the most out of IoT solutions

Our IoT solutions offer numerous potential benefits for construction industry operators:

• Improved construction quality and efficiency
• Saving time by getting hold of data immediately
• Cost savings
• Improved risk management
• Reduced probability of errors
• Sensors that are practically maintenance free
• Collected data that can be used to create real-time monitoring reports and increase the transparency of your operations
• Solutions that help you meet the requirements of the law and local plans

Thanks to the nation-wide LoRaWAN network that stretches across the entire country, the solutions and devices provided by Digita and our partners are suitable for construction companies of all sizes and construction sites across Finland.

Do you want to place an order or learn more about the opportunities afforded by IoT?

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Pyry Puntari

Sales Manager, IoT Services

+358 400 588 407 pyry.puntari@digita.fi

IoT offers solutions to many problems electricity companies face

Finnish conditions, including storms and heavy snowfall, often result in inconvenient and expensive problems for electricity companies. These can be more effectively managed with LoRaWAN-based IoT solutions that enhance business activities. These solutions can also:

• Save time
• Reduce repair costs
• Reduce safety risks
• Increase predictability
• Reduce waste
• Comprehensive IoT solutions
  
  
  

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Pyry Puntari

Sales Manager, IoT Services

+358 400 588 407 pyry.puntari@digita.fi

How IoT Supports Water Utilities

Digita’s nationwide LoRaWAN IoT network covers nearly all of Finland, enabling cost-effective, reliable, and low-power data transmission for a wide range of meters, sensors, and other IoT devices. LoRaWAN-based solutions are particularly well suited for applications that require long-range connectivity, extended battery life, and easy deployment. Digita’s network is compatible with all LoRaWAN end devices and is widely used for remote water metering, building energy management, and environmental monitoring.

The water sector is rapidly undergoing digital transformation through remotely readable IoT meters. Digita is at the forefront of remote water metering in Finland, with solutions already deployed by numerous water utilities across the country. IoT-based water consumption monitoring provides accurate, up-to-date data, helps detect leaks more quickly, and reduces the need for manual processes. Automated data collection ensures that consumption data is readily available, improving the customer experience and supporting more informed decision-making. Digita’s OmaVesi service brings water consumption monitoring, alerts, and reporting together in a single intuitive view.

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Mona Miettinen

Senior Sales Manager, IoT

+358 400 721 700 mona.miettinen@digita.fi

IoT – Internet Of Things

With our IoT (Internet of Things) smart solutions, we enable the smart cities of the future. In real estate and public sector environments, maintenance personnel can empty waste bins based on their actual fill level as reported by IoT sensors. In hospitals, sensors can predict when oxygen cylinders are running low. In the property sector, energy costs can be optimized by measuring apartment-specific temperatures with IoT sensors and automatically adjusting them to appropriate levels.

Digita is a stable Finnish technology provider with a ready-made IoT infrastructure available as a service platform for our partners’ solutions. Thanks to Digita’s tall transmission mast network and nationwide two-way LoRa-based connectivity, managing and controlling connected devices is cost-effective, simple, and highly reliable.

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Pyry Puntari

Sales Manager, IoT Services

+358 400 588 407 pyry.puntari@digita.fi

Mona Miettinen

Senior Sales Manager, IoT

+358 400 721 700 mona.miettinen@digita.fi

Remote reading of water meters with the help of IoT has already made it possible to move on from estimated billing. With the new My Water Service by Digita, you now get access to comprehensive, up-to-date overviews of your customers’ water consumption and problems with water supply. The service is available on both desktop and mobile.

What benefits does My Water Service offer properties?

Digita’s My Water modernises water metering in properties

With buildings being subjected to new energy efficiency legislation, water meters must now be installed in new buildings as well as buildings undergoing plumbing renovations to facilitate billing based on flat-specific meter readings and actual consumption. In practice, this means that flats must have flat-specific remotely readable water meters. The My Water Service, launched by Digita in the spring of 2020, offers a comprehensive solution for tracking the flat-specific water consumption of properties.

Digita’s My Water Service allows property owners, property managers and maintenance companies to obtain a broad and up-to-date view of the water consumption of properties, and each resident can monitor their own consumption.

 The benefits of remote water meter reading are significant:

• flat-specific monitoring brings savings in water and energy consumption
• smart meters allow any hidden leaks to be detected more quickly
• automated data collection provides accurate daily consumption data directly to both the biller and the resident, and estimated billing can be abandoned.

Why Digita’s My Water Service?

The My Water Service is an easy and effortless overall solution for the introduction and utilisation of remotely readable water meters. Remotely readable water meters connected to a wireless IoT network can be installed in both old and new buildings without wiring, and the installed meters will run on batteries for up to 15 years. The meters transmit consumption data wirelessly to Digita’s IoT network and further to the My Water cloud service, which provides the user with comprehensive and up-to-date overviews of water consumption data and problems with water supply.

The service also offers tracking reports to residents, which raises awareness of their own water consumption. Reducing the use of hot water in properties cuts down the carbon footprint of housing as energy consumption decreases.

Comprehensive total service for property owners

Digita offers My Water to property owners as a comprehensive service that includes the acquisition of meters, installation, maintenance, data transfer and cloud service. Digita is responsible for the overall solution throughout the contract period. Digita’s My Water is a risk-free option in a rapidly changing technology environment.

Digita at the forefront of remote water meter reading

Digita is a stable and trustworthy domestic operator offering a complete LoRaWAN infrastructure as a service platform for our partners’ IoT solutions.

Water supply is rapidly going digital with the introduction of smart water meters. Our goal is to digitalise the some four million water meters in Finland. To achieve this, we work in close collaboration with system suppliers and the importers and distributors of smart water meters.

Our latest innovation is My Water Service, which helps take your company to a new level in the digitalisation of operations and improved customer service.

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Digita combines its expertise with that of its partners in IoT solutions for water supply. Digita offers a LoRaWAN-based IoT network that covers the whole country and enables comprehensive and cost-effective data collection from infrastructure. By using geographic information solutions from Digita’s partners, the data collected by Digita’s IoT network can be made part of the customer’s operational activities.

Digita and partners’ complementary technology offerings create a more agile way than ever of collecting and analysing information from the company’s different functions. Cost-effective data collection supported by the geographic information system’s analytics capabilities that turn the data from the sensor network into business information create an entirely new basis for decision-making.

Solutions for water service providers and water utilities

Digita and its partners provide water service providers and water utilities with complete solutions that enable efficient real-time monitoring of the water supply network and water consumption.

Water utilities manage geographically decentralised catchment areas as well as complex assets above and below ground, and serve customers in urban and rural areas alike. The above elements mean both opportunities and challenges for water utilities.

OmaVesi Service by Digita is a cloud service that offers additional services for remotely readable water meters. It allows water service providers to monitor the water consumption of main water meters on the hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly level; give cost estimates for water consumption; directly transfer meter readings to billing; view the status of main water meters; get alerts on pipe leaks and risks of freezing, backflow and water consumption that exceeds set limits directly on the map; and in the future, also get readings from other instruments in the network, such as flow and pressure sensors.

With Digita and partners’ complementary technologies and IoT solutions, you can enable resource-efficient data collection and more effective management of network assets. Cost-effective data collection supported by a geographic information platform turns the massive data flow from IoT into business information and creates an entirely new basis for decision-making. Real-time overviews of the status of network assets enable resource-wise operations and the minimisation of risks and costs. Are you ready to seize the opportunities of the future today?

Remote reading of water meters with the help of IoT has already made it possible to move on from estimated billing. With the new OmaVesi (My Water) Service by Digita, you now get access to comprehensive, up-to-date overviews of your customers’ water consumption and problems with water supply. The service is available on both desktop and mobile.

What benefits does OmeVesi Service offer water service providers?

OmaVesi Service by Digita is a cloud service that offers additional services for remotely readable water meters. It allows you to:

• monitor the water consumption of main water meters on the hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly level
• give cost estimates for water consumption
• directly transfer meter readings to billing
• view the status of main water meters
• get alerts on pipe leaks and risks of freezing, backflow and water consumption that exceeds set limits directly on the map
• in the future, also get readings from other instruments in the network, such as flow and pressure sensors.

All this makes it possible to provide customers an improved level of service on matters related to water consumption. The tracking reports can also be shared with end users to help raise awareness about water consumption. The OmaVesi service complies with the provisions of the GDPR, and end users can only view data from their own water meters.

Digita at the forefront of remote water meter reading

Digita is a stable and trustworthy domestic operator offering a complete LoRaWAN infrastructure as a service platform for our partners’ IoT solutions.

Water supply is rapidly going digital with the introduction of smart water meters. We cooperate with dozens of water service providers around Finland in projects related to remote water meter reading. Our goal is to digitalise the some four million water meters in Finland. To achieve this, we work in close collaboration with system suppliers and the importers and distributors of smart water meters.

Our latest innovation is OmaVesi Service, which helps take your company to a new level in the digitalisation of operations and improved customer service.

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