Water Leakage Protection – Moisture Control in Buildings

Indoor Environmental Monitoring is critical to an occupant’s well-being as well as the building’s health. Property damage can be caused by more than one reasons, the most common of them being water leakage. Today’s smart buildings have water leakage system management in place to counter such issues. The use of Wireless IoT Monitoring sensors by tech-savvy building owners helps detect such water leaks in advance and take corrective action before the deterioration starts. The time between the actual water leak and the discovery of the leak determines the scale of damage and with IoT sensors and devices in place, the moisture is controlled and damages is prevented!

Prolonged water leakage can cause dampness resulting in infrastructural damage. Here are a few ways IoT devices help combat this issue:

• Water Leakage Detection – Wireless IoT sensors fitted into buildings help monitor and flag out any minor leakages, which helps in identifying leaks at an initial stage. These sensors can be fitted anywhere in the building, walls, ceilings, floorboards – thereby preventing leakages in any part of the building.
• Humidity Control – Humidity also plays a major role in the formation of mold, which in-turn is dangerous to a building’s health. Humidity sensors continuously monitor the humidity levels inside a building and the fluctuations are tracked and stored in a cloud server for further analysis. Any undesirable fluctuation is flagged, thereby ensuring prompt action.
• Temperature Monitoring – Wireless IoT powered devices help track temperatures. How this affects and helps in water leakages, you may ask! These temperature sensors can be set to a threshold level, which when breached send out an alert. And when there is a water leakage, the temperature changes, which is immediately controlled.
• Real-time Monitoring – The IoT devices continuously monitor for water leakages and indoor environmental conditions and provide for advanced processing. This data driven concept helps the building owners take data oriented decisions, thereby saving up on maintenance costs. 

• Predictive decision making – The sensors track and store the data on a cloud server, which helps in predictive analysis of a building’s condition and take the necessary action. This enhances the decision making and enables the owners to focus on growth.

IoT is a trending technology embraced by many facility management companies to resolve major and minor issues, equipment maintenance and asset monitoring. This is a necessary technical solution to not only  protect the building and that too in a smart way, but also save water & energy.