Wireless mesh-network gas detection
Ground gas detection system with wireless remote monitoring
The team behind GCD are expert in ground gas detection for buildings, contaminated sites, and petroleum exploration. Limitations in available monitoring equipment presented opportunities to develop improved, safer detection systems. Objectives included:
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Remote user configurable wireless monitoring of data from multiple gases.
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Intuitive user experience and interface.
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ATEX and IECEx compliant for sampling in explosive environments.
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Options to securely site in boreholes, on walls or shelves.
Expertise used to create GCD gas detection:
Imagine
To understand human, logistics, regulatory and technical challenges our designers liaised continually with scientists, site operators and CGD’s in-house team.
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Mapping service delivery, product lifecycle and considering the competitive context, we prioritised opportunities to add value from product build through dispatch, use, servicing and end-of-life.
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Design
Lucid’s team developed concepts for managed gas flow to multiple sensors, valves, vents, and filters within tight size constraints to fit bore-holes.
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Working through options with user interface wireframes, animation, sketch visuals, 3D CAD, block models, and working prototypes, stakeholders were engaged in usability feedback throughout. Significant materials research was required to meet exacting performance standards.
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Design for electromagnetic compatibility, ingress, and explosive atmosphere safety testing was optimised concurrently with consideration of access for servicing, disassembly, and recycling.
Make
Providing unambiguous engineering design specification, manufacturing subcontractors were involved early in the design process.
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Lucid builds prototype batches of gas Sentinel sub-assemblies for handover to CGD Technology for final manufacture.
The impact:
Enhanced
user experience
Human factors engineering included optimising the design for simple and intuitive remote digital monitoring and alert interactions, with easy build and servicing access.
Improved
environmental
impact
Design for low wireless power consumption extends battery life and service cycles to minimise environmental impact.
Enhanced
brand impact
Coherent messaging throughout a clear user-interface elevates the perception of the product’s value.
Enhanced
manufacturing
capabilities
The modular design of independent sub-assemblies enables efficient, low-volume batch build and test
A safe, regulated
product
ATEX and IECEx standards and safety principles were applied throughout, resulting in first-time safety certification.
Entire life
cycle
considered
Mapping service delivery, product lifecycle and considering the competitive context, we prioritised opportunities to add value from product build through dispatch, use, servicing and end-of-life.