A Portal Beam has several occupancy measurement capabilities. These capabilities are defined by each of three available modes, including Room Occupancy, Seat Level Occupancy, and Traffic.
Each mode also includes environmental monitoring capabilities that measures room temperature, humidity, light level, and air quality. A Portal Beam is also equipped with IR beaconing that provides location based capabilities for tracking assets and the flow and location of people.
The following provides the details of each mode and the default mode settings.
Measures the number of people in a room.
Measure and capture historical occupancy levels of buildings and their floors.
Measure and capture historical occupancy levels of floor parts separately - for example, dividing a floor into separate wings or departments and capturing occupancy for each.
Measure utilization of specific rooms, areas in open spaces.
Measure utilization of very large rooms such as training centers or lecture rooms.
Infrastructure |
Requirement |
|---|---|
Kio Cloud Smart Location |
Campus, buildings, building floors, floor plans, rooms. Each Portal Beam is placed into a Smart Location room at its exact install location. |
Portal Beam Setup |
Portal Beam firmware: version 2.5.xx or greater. Completed from the Kio Gateway Installer app at the time of installation.
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Portal Beam Installation |
Portal Beam is located in each room and/or open space requiring room level occupancy measurements. Portal Beam within Bluetooth range of a Kontakt.io Portal Light or BLE-enabled Access Point. A maximum of two Portal Beams in a single room or corridor. Room with two Portal Beams: distance between beams 11.25 ft (3.4 m). |
Measures the seat occupancy in a workstation space.
Measure utilization of specific seats in multi-person workstations.
Show availability of specific seats in multi-desk workstations.
Infrastructure |
Requirement |
|---|---|
Kio Cloud Smart Location |
Campus, buildings, building floors, floor plans, rooms. Each Portal Beam is placed into a Smart Location room at its exact install location. Seats are added to each room. |
Portal Beam Setup |
Portal Beam firmware: version 2.5.xx or greater. Completed from the Kio Gateway Installer app at the time of installation.
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Portal Beam Installation |
Portal Beam located in each room or open space requiring seat level occupancy measurements. Portal Beam within Bluetooth range of a Kontakt.io Portal Light or BLE-enabled Access Point. |
Measures the number of people entering and exiting a space.
Show availability of rooms such as offices, meeting rooms or patient examination rooms.
Show occupancy levels of large rooms or spaces. For example, showing the number of patients currently in a waiting room.
Infrastructure |
Requirement |
|---|---|
Kio Cloud Smart Location |
Campus, buildings, building floors, floor plans, rooms. Each Portal Beam is placed into a Smart Location room at its exact install location. Each room is assigned to a space. A space is a collection of rooms. |
Portal Beam Setup |
Portal Beam firmware: version 2.5.xx or greater. Completed from the Kio Gateway Installer app at the time of installation.
|
Portal Beam Installation |
Portal Beam located in each room requiring traffic measurements. Portal Beam is powered by AC power. Battery power is for backup power purposes only; operates up to ten days on continuous battery backup power. Portal Beam within Bluetooth range of a Kontakt.io Portal Light or BLE-enabled Access Point. Portal Beam camera oriented to face the interior of the room. AC outlet available within 18 in (45.7 cm) from the Portal Beam install location and should be easily accessible. |
In addition to occupancy capabilities and environmental monitoring, a Portal Beam's IR beaconing capability can also be enabled. IR beaconing is for room-level location tracking use cases, such as tracking of assets or people
Device infrastructure requires Kontakt.io Asset Tags, Smart Badges, or Nano Tags.
For all three modes, the following details the Portal Beam's default settings set by Kontakt.io.
Setting |
Default value |
Definition |
|---|---|---|
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Tx Power (Transmission Power) |
5 |
The output power strength that determines its signal transmission range - how far its signal will reach. This is measured in dBm (decibel-milliwatts) and corresponds to the number rating (from 0 to 7). Higher the power increases the signal range. |
|
Interval (Advertising Interval) |
1000ms |
Length of time in milliseconds between each packet transmission. Essentially how often a beacon "wakes up" to transmit its data (packets).
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Packets |
Telemetry Location Kontakt.io |
A “packet” is package of data. Each type of packet includes specific data. Transmitted packets are picked up by a receiving device; Portal Light or BLE-enabled Access Point. |
Power Saving |
Disabled |
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IR |
Disabled |
4-directional infrared (IR) beam for location based beaconing. Device infrastructure requires Kontakt.io Asset Tags, Smart Badges, or Nano Tags. |