Recipes

Omaya is a set of parts: sensors that report, places they belong to, rules that watch them, actions that do something, data tables that keep a log, and reports that add it up. The guides explain each part. The recipes put them together to answer a question someone in your building is actually asking.

Each recipe gives the question, the hardware, the rule (or rules), what the rule does, how to read the result, and where it goes wrong.

The pattern behind every recipe. A sensor reports → a rule notices → an action happens (someone is told, a work order is raised, a device is switched, a row is written) → a report adds it up. When a question has no ready-made report, the row in a data table is what makes it answerable.

Counting people

Question	Recipe
How many women and how many men used the toilets, with one door counter and one PIR?	Toilet visits by gender
Is today unusually busy, or unusually quiet?	Space and occupancy → busy or quiet day
Did a room or floor go over its capacity?	Space and occupancy → over capacity
Which rooms could we give up?	Space and occupancy → rooms nobody uses
Which meeting rooms get stuffy?	Space and occupancy → stuffy rooms

Saving energy

Question	Recipe
Can the lights and air-conditioning go off when a room empties?	Energy → switch off empty rooms
What is left running at night?	Energy → out-of-hours power
Is a floor using more than it usually does?	Energy → a floor using more than usual

Safety and security

Question	Recipe
Someone working alone falls, or stops moving	Safety → lone worker
A panic button is pressed and nobody answers	Safety → panic button escalation
A wheelchair, trolley or laptop cart leaves its floor	Safety → an asset leaves
Staff badges keep working outside, between sites	Safety → covered outside
A vehicle or tracker leaves a site	Safety → geofence
Someone is in a room after hours	Safety → after hours
A door was left open	Safety → door left open

Keeping the building running

Question	Recipe
The cold room or the server room is warming up	Maintenance → too warm
Water on the floor	Maintenance → leak
A gateway goes down at night and nobody knows	Maintenance → gateway down
A noisy area, with evidence	Maintenance → noise log
A sensor behaving strangely	Maintenance → anomalies

And when you know what you want but not which part does it: Tips and tricks.

Or let OAIA build it

With OAIA on, describe the question and the sensors you have in the assistant. For a question the built-in reports cannot answer, it proposes a data table, the rules that fill it and the report, and builds all three when you press Apply. The recipes here are what it builds, written out, so you can check its work or build it by hand.