BleBox airsensor User manual

airsensor
AIR QUALITY INDICATOR
air quality sensor with μWiFi technology
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2
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You can also set the con guraon using the web browser
of your phone / tablet. Aer connecng to the wireless
network of the controller, turn on the browser and go
to: www.blebox.eu
Disconnect supply voltage circuit before installing the controller. Remember
that any mounng works should be carried out when the main voltage is
disconnected (switch o the mains fuse or disconnect the power supply from
the socket).
The device should be mounted in a place protected from direct adverse
environmental condions, in parcular atmospheric precipitaon. At the
same me, should be paid aenon to ensuring a good air exchange around
the device. Remember that metallic elements (wires, housing parts) have a
negave inuence on the range of the device, and consequently the comfort
of use. It is recommended that the device be mounted in a stable and 
xed posion, correctly oriented (according to the inscripons on the casing),
fastened with screws, wall plugs or by means of a doublesided assembly
tape.
Remove the cover of the device by liing it. Choose a power supply  a 5V
USB connector located on the le side of the device or a 1224V AC / DC
mains adapter connected via wires to a plugin connector located in the right
part of the PCB (polarizaon is irrelevant). Connect the power wire to the
USB connector or plugin connector. Bringing in the power wire outside the
housing through the aperture in the inferior part, replace the housing.
At the boom of the screen there is a table with numerical values of
parculate maer concentraons. Fields with concentraon values PM2.5
and PM10 change its color in relaon to the degree of exceeding the
standard in the color scale presented before, moreover, the percentage value
in relaon to the value of the standard is presented in brackets. For example,
a reading (50%) means that the current air polluon concentraons is only
half of the acceptable value, while the indicaon (300%) means a 3fold
exceedance of the standard. Next to the percentage, the change trend is
also calculated, compared to the average of the last hour of measurements.
The trend is indicated by an up, down arrow or a horizontal line in the case
that no changes have been registered, it is only displayed aer the sensor’s
working one hour.
At the very boom of the screen is presented the status of measurements
on the device. “”Last measurement”” means that the device displays
a measurement taken within a me not exceeding 10 minutes.
The device automacally performs another measurement every 10
minutes and displays the last air polluon concentraons value. This
behavior is dictated by the care of the sensor’s lifeme due to the fact the
air polluon slowly changes over the me. It is also possible to manually
force the measurement. To do this, press the “”Refresh”” icon (two arrows)
in the upper right part of the screen. Within the rst 20 seconds shows
the status “”Measurement in progress””, which next will be change to
“”Current measurement”” and the concentraon values will be updated.
To switch the device into connuous measurement mode, in which
measurements are taken every 1 second, hold down the “”Refresh”” icon for
over 3 seconds. The icon background will turn gray and the device will start a
connuous measurement, the device will start the connuous measurement,
which will last unl the moment it returns to the main screen of the
applicaon or the browser page is closed. Leaving the device in connuous
measurement mode, should remember about the lifeme of the measuring
system, esmated at approx. 8000 hours.
Historical measurement data are only available for sensors mounted outside,
congured in remote access mode, with a correctly set locaon and they are
stored only on BleBox servers. They are available by clicking on the diagram
icon in the upper right corner of the screen.They are also presented on the
map available on blebox.eu
Go to „Sengs” (icon in the upper right corner of the screen). In the “Main
sengs” secon, you can change the device name which is visible in the
wBox applicaon. The opon “Signal LED on” allows you to turn on the LEDs
built into the device.
In order to communicate with a device being out of the local WiFi network,
from anyplace in the World, via wBox applicaons, must be set to “”Yes”” the
opon “”Enable remote access””. Seng this opon to “”Yes”” also means
giving consent for the sending of the measurement data to a public map of
the air polluon available on the web page blebox.eu and the archiving of
this data together with its locaon. Seng the “”No”” opon will result in the
lack of the access to the controller when it is out of the local network and
the lack of access to historical data  only the current values will be visible.
Seng the “Enable event log” opon to “Yes” will cause the device to record
events (e.g. sending the nocaon set in the “Acons” secon) in the
BleBox cloud system. This allows the history of the events to be viewed later
also when the controller is oine.
Turn on the device by switching on the power supply voltage (switching on
the main power supply circuit fuse or connecng the power supply to the
socket). The device will turn on the LEDs on white color for a few seconds
and then will change into a color depending on the air quality. Connuous
lighng in white color indicates the sensor error, which is also signaled by the
red status visible in the wBox applicaon (more informaon about the wBox
applicaon later in the manual). In this case, check the wire connected to the
sensor circuit board.
Download thIf you have an Android mobile device,
you will  nd the applicaon in the Play Store. For iOS devices the applicaon
is in the App Store.
By using your mobile phone or tablet, connect it to the device wireless
network. To do this, enter to your smartphone or tablet sengs, then go
to seng of the WiFi network and nd the network named „airSensor
xxxxxxxxxx” where xxxxxxxxxx is the serial number of the device. Connect
to this network.
Open the wBox applicaon. A device will appear at the top of the screen. To
add it to the applicaon, click on “+” on the right side of the name. To pre
congure the controller, click on the default device name.
The main controller screen shows current informaon from the air quality
sensor. Air quality is determined based on the measurement of parculate
maer concentraons PM2.5 and PM10 and is shown the worst value of
both. The current state of air quality is displayed in the upper part of the
screen in a colored icon and also in word status, and is signaled by colored
LEDs built into the device and it shows in the following way:
WARNING!
Never connect at the same me power to the USB
connector and to the plugin connector. It may cause
damage to the device.
very good (intense green color)
good (light green)
moderate (light yellow)
sucient (orange color)
bad (bright red)
very bad (intensive red)
user manual
very good
good
moderate
sucient
bad
very bad

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The “Make geolocaon coarse for sensor data” opon helps you maintain
privacy if you do not want your device to be located on the air polluon map
with high precision.
In the “”Sensor sengs”” secon, select the place of its installaon
 outside or inside the building (measurement of indoor air quality).
It is possible to turn o the table with the numerical values of parculate
maer concentraons on the main controller screen by seng the “Detailed
view” opon to “No”. Then only an icon with a descripon will be shown.
The controller allows you to send control commands to other controllers of
the wBox series via the WiFi network through the API. Each acon will be
deployed on parcular trigger, eg. change of air quality level.
When eding acons select “Control other device” as the “Acon type”,
select “Value greater/worse than or equal to”, “Value less/beer than or
equal to”, “Air quality level change” as the “Trigger”. Select “Value type”  a
specic value of parculate maer (PM1, PM2.5 or PM10) or air quality level
(for PM2.5, PM10 or worse of them). In the “Value” eld enter or select from
the list the border value aer which the acon is to be called once. Selecng
the “Trigger periodically” opon will trigger the acon every me specied
in the “Interval in minutes” eld for the enre period of the exceeded value.
Click on the “Select device” buon. The controller will search the network for
compable devices and display them in a list. Select the device you want to
control and click the “Select” buon. If the device is not listed you must use
the general API control method described further.
Then in the “Call API” eld enter the API command that the driver will call.
The most popular API commands for shuerBox and wLightBox are
presented below. It was assumed that the IP address of the device which will
be controlled is: 192.168.1.123
If the device was not on the found list or you want to control another device
in the network, select “Call URL” as “Acon type”.
In the “URL” eld, enter the API command preceded by the hp protocol
prex and the IP address of the wBox device which will be controlled. The IP
address can be found in the device sengs. Cauon! All the controllers must
be in the same subnet, usually the subnet of a home router.
Conrm the entry with the “Save” buon.
A detailed descripon of how to control other controllers of the wBox series
is available in the “Extended instrucons for wBox devices”, while all the
technical documentaon API of the wBox controllers is available at: hp://
technical.blebox.eu
The controller allows you to display a system nocaon on a phone with
the wBox applicaon installed on the parcular trigger, e.g. to change the
air quality level.
Nocaons are added similarly to “Acons”  as “Acon type” select
“Nocaon / Event log” ll in the remaining elds of the form and conrm
with the “Save” buon.
In order for the nocaon to be displayed on the phone it is necessary
to allow the controller to display nocaons. Go to the main menu of the
wBox applicaon, to the “Nocaons” tab. Then go to the sengs (the
“Sengs” icon in the upper right corner of the screen). Find the device on
the list and select “Acon nocaon” from the dropdown list next to the
device name. You can also select other types of available nocaons or
μPortal nocaons. Conrm the change of preferences with the “Save”
buon in the upper right corner of the screen.
If nocaons are not displayed despite their conguraon check in the
phone system sengs (Android / iOS) whether the wBox applicaon is
authorized to display system nocaons.
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6
Opening the window by the shuerBox: hp://192.168.1.123/s/u
Closing the window by the shuerBox: hp://192.168.1.123/s/d
Change LED strip color to red by the wLightBox: hp://192.168.1.123/s/
000000
Change LED strip color to yellow by the wLightBoxx:
hp://192.168.1.123/s/0000
Change LED strip color to green by the wLightBox: hp://192.168.1.123/
s/000000
Go to “Connect to WiFi network” secon, where you can connect the device
to the WiFi home network to be able to connect to it via it or from anyplace
in the world. To do this, select the network name from the list and press
“Connect”. If required, enter the WiFi network password. When connecng
the device to the home network, the phone / tablet may be disconnected
from the device’s network.
Aer compleng the WiFi network conguraon, you can disconnect from
the device network and connect the phone / tablet directly to your home
WiFi network. Control from the wBox applicaon will work in the same way
as when the phone / tablet is connected to the device’s network. If as a
user you leave the local network, eg leaving your home or enclosing mobile
data, the wBox applicaon will signal this status as “Remote mode”. In this
case, you will have access to the device data, but for security reasons sengs
opons will not be available.
In the “”Access point sengs”” secon, you can change the name and give
the password of the WiFi network emied by the device. Remember that
changing the network name or password can cause disconnecon with
the device immediately aer clicking the “”Save”” buon, so you should
reconnect to the WiFi network.

1224V AC/DC through a plug
in conector or 5V via micro USB
connector
 max 2W
 less than 1W

PM1: 0,31,0µm,
PM2.5: 1,02,5µm,
PM10: 2,510µm
 laser, PMS5003
 50% for parcles with a size of 0,3 μm,
98% for size parcles >=0,5 μm

 10 sec
 1 μg/m³
 every 10 minutes or on demand
 for PM2.5, 0500 μg/m³
 71 x 71 x 27 mm
 from 20 to + 50°C protect of the
direct sunlight
 screws, wall plug or doublesided
adhesive tape
 0.99%
 IP32, mounng in a place protected
from rain
 numeric and graphic indicator in wBox
applicaon, changing LED colors
 μWiFi, compable with WiFi, 802.11g


1224V AC/DC through a plug
in conector or 5V via micro USB
connector
 2.4 GHz
 bidireconal, encrypted
 open

direct connecon (as Access Point),
WiFi connecon via a standard router,
connecon with access from any loca
on in the world (requires only access
to the Internet)

Apple iPhone, Apple iPad, iPad Mini,
Android, computers and mobile devices
supporng HTML5
 WPA2PSK and authencated encryp
on with associated data (AEAD)




www.blebox.eu
made in Europe
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To be able to use historical air quality data, it is necessary to set the clock
and locaon of the device. Go to the “”Device me”” secon of the sengs
and then click “”Change zone””. Select your region and locaons from the
list, conrming your selecon with the “”Save”” buon. The device will
synchronize its me with the me server (if the controller is in a WiFi network
with Internet access) or it will download me from the phone/tablet.
Next, in the “Device locaon” secon, click “Set locaons”. The applicaon
/ browser will ask whether to share locaons  allow. In the “Coordinates”
eld, the approximate coordinates of your locaon should appear. If the “Set
locaons” buon blinks red with the word “error” or the “Coordinates” eld
did not change the value from “Not set” to numeric data, a failure occurred in
the locaon download. You should then make sure that the phone / tablet has
a GPS module and that the locaon sharing support is enabled on the phones
To update the soware in the controller, connect it to your home WiFi network
(see “”Access Point and WiFi sengs”” secon) which is connected to the
Internet. Go to “Sengs” (icon at the topright corner of the screen) and
click the “”Get new rmware”” buon in the nal secon on sengs. Wait about
1 minute, do not close the interface and don’t perform other acons. The
device will download the latest soware. The soware version number,
hardware version and device idener can be read at the boom of the
sengs screen.