InnoRenew CoE team – dr. Aleksandar Tosić, dr. Niki Hrovatin, Blaž Jerman and Miladin Jokić – completed the set up of sensors and software at two of Centre de Ciència i Tecnologia Forestal de Catalunya’s (CTFC) facilities for monitoring moisture of timber structure, air quality, and sound.

Sensors were installed in their Catalonia Forestry Hub that monitors indoor air quality (IAQ), and building performance measures including, relative humidity, temperature, weathering station, noise level, moisture content, and heat flux within the wall system. Additionally, the same system was installed in the headquarters, built in 2008 with ~30% wood.

Monitoring of building will offer new insights into the building’s performance and dynamics between external influences and internal conditions.

InnoRenew CoE extensive experience with deployment of large-scale wireless and wired sensor networks as a product has been implemented in these buildings. Data analysis and visualization software, time series database storage and server hosting, ongoing maintenance and support for the system, as well as actuation in the form of an alert system, has been set up.

Close collaboration of the CTFC and InnoRenew CoE teams on building monitoring is expected to deliver new knowledge and advance the innovations in timber building sector.