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Environment Sensor

The Environment Sensor is a multi-parameter environmental monitoring device equipped with the Bosch Sensortec BME680 sensor. This digital 4-in-1 sensor provides comprehensive air quality and environmental monitoring capabilities, measuring Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), equivalent CO2 (CO2-e), breathable Volatile Organic Compounds equivalent (bVOC-e), atmospheric pressure, temperature, and humidity.

The BME680 gas sensor detects a wide variety of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) to monitor indoor air quality, making it suitable for health and comfort monitoring in residential, commercial, and industrial environments.

Features

  • Multi-parameter measurement: Temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, and air quality
  • IAQ Index: Indoor Air Quality scoring for environmental assessment
  • Gas sensing: Detection of VOCs with CO2-e and bVOC-e equivalent outputs
  • Low power consumption: Typical 3.7 µA at 1 Hz humidity measurement, 5mA nominal (25mA during VOC measurement)
  • Wide operating voltage: 3.3V to 5.5V DC
  • Digital interface: I2C communication (3.3V/5V compatible)

Use Cases

  • Indoor air quality monitoring
  • HVAC system control and optimization
  • Health and wellness applications
  • Smart home and building automation
  • Environmental compliance monitoring
  • Workplace safety and comfort management

Thinger.io Integration

This device can be integrated with Thinger.io through LoRaWAN connectivity, enabling remote environmental monitoring and data visualization.

Requirements

A LoRaWAN server is required to communicate the Environment Sensor into Thinger.io, some options are:

Alongside, the corresponding plugin for the selected LoRaWAN server needs to be installed in your Thinger.io instance.

Get Started

Installation

Look for the plugin in the Thinger.io Plugin Store and install it in your Thinger.io instance. Once the plugin is installed a new Product will be created for this device.

Configuration

The Product is already preconfigured, check that the auto provision prefix matches the one selected in your LoRaWAN server plugin in Thinger.io, or change it to your desire.

Usage

Start sending uplinks for autoprovisioning devices and buckets. This product also provides a predefined dashboard and downlinks.

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