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Sensors Solution (Solution Details)

Y6OS supports Modbus RTU, enabling integration with a wide range of environmental and industrial sensors. From air quality and vape detection to power meters, solar systems, and industrial controls, if it integrates with Modbus, it can connect to Y6OS.

In addition to Modbus RTU, YourSixOS also supports seamless integration of native environmental sensors, such as the AXIS D63 series.

Overview

Sensors provide real-time insight into physical and environmental conditions by measuring values such as temperature, humidity, air quality, pressure, and fluid levels. Unlike traditional event-based devices that simply indicate whether something has happened, sensors quantify conditions and trends, delivering meaningful operational context. This additional intelligence helps organizations better understand their environments, make informed decisions, and respond proactively to changing conditions.

Why Use Sensors?

    • Gain visibility into environmental and operational conditions across facilities and assets
    • Provide alarm operators and end users with greater situational awareness during investigations and incident response
    • Enhance physical security and safety by adding context beyond standard alarms and events
    • Monitor critical measurements such as temperature, humidity, air quality, pressure, fluid levels, and more

Answer important operational questions including:

    • How warm is the environment?
    • How humid is the area?
    • What is the current fluid level?
    • What is the air quality?
    • Are conditions changing over time?

By combining sensor data with video, audio, access control, and other security technologies, organizations can create a more complete operational picture and improve response times, efficiency, and overall awareness.

Sensor Integration Options

Native Sensors

Native sensors run directly on a supported device and communicate with YourSixOS without requiring additional hardware. These sensors are ideal for simple deployments where environmental data is collected directly from the device itself. For example, the temperature sensor built into an AXIS D6310 can report environmental conditions directly to the platform.

Modbus RTU Sensors

Modbus RTU sensors connect through a Modbus RTU server that is physically wired to a gateway device, such as an AXIS A9210, enabling organizations to integrate a wide variety of third-party industrial and environmental sensors into YourSixOS. This flexible approach supports a broad ecosystem of Modbus-compatible devices and is ideal for industrial, utility, and facility monitoring applications. Through a single gateway, organizations can collect and monitor specialized data such as fluid levels, pressure, air quality, temperature, humidity, power consumption, and more, while easily scaling deployments to support multiple sensors across a site.

 

Peripherals vs Sensors

    • A peripheral indicates if smoke is present, if it is hot, or if the liquid level is low – (Binary)
    • A sensor measures how much smoke there is, how hot it is, and the exact liquid level – Continuous)

Subscriptions

Sensor subscriptions in YourSixOS are structured in two layers and it is important to understand both when planning a deployment.

Base Device Subscription: One subscription for the gateway or sensor host device (A9210, D6310, etc.)

    • Every sensor deployment requires a subscribed hardware device (Base device subscription) that serves as the connection point to the platform. For Modbus RTU sensors, this is the Axis A9210 gateway device. For native Axis sensors, such as the D6310, the D6310 is the gateway device and also requires a subscription.

Sensor Subscription: One subscription for each individual sensor being monitored within YourSixOS

    • In addition to the device subscription, each individual sensor requires its own sensor subscription. This allows organizations to scale deployments by adding multiple sensors to a single gateway while maintaining visibility and management of each sensor independently within YourSixOS.
    • It is also important to understand the difference between a Modbus server and a sensor. A Modbus server is the physical device that communicates on the Modbus network and exposes data through registers. A sensor is an individual measurement created from one or more of those registers. A single Modbus server can contain many sensors, such as temperature, humidity, pressure, wind speed, fluid level, or air quality measurements.

For example, a single subscribed A9210 gateway may connect to a weather station that operates as one Modbus server. That server may provide multiple sensor readings including temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind speed, and precipitation. While only one device subscription is needed for the A9210, each configured sensor within YourSixOS requires its own sensor subscription.

Understanding the difference between device subscriptions and sensor subscriptions is essential for accurately sizing and pricing a sensor deployment.

 

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