A Gaia Enabled cabin is your supplier’s cabin with our
control unit fitted at manufacture. We don’t supply cabins; you keep your existing
supplier, always.
The standard below is the same whoever that supplier is. Most of it describes a well-built,
well-maintained cabin rather than anything unusual.
The five requirements, and why each one matters
1. Local on/off switches and thermostats removed, covered or locked out
Why: this is the single most important item on the list, and it is there
because of a failure we have seen happen.
If a site can override a heater locally and Gaia is also controlling it, both are fighting
for the same circuit. What happens in practice is that somebody switches the kit off at the
mains, and the whole system stops delivering, usually without anyone reporting it.
Removing local control isn’t about taking something away from the site team. It is
about there being one place a decision gets made. If a room is too cold, the site team asks and
we change it, and because we changed it, we know about it.
2. Heaters, AC, dehumidifiers and water heaters installed correctly and in good working
order
Why: control cannot fix broken hardware. An appliance that has failed into
a high-consumption state will keep drawing whatever it draws during the periods we allow it to
run.
The useful side-effect is that once every circuit is measured, faulty kit becomes visible
rather than suspected. That is a quality conversation with your supplier, with a circuit
reference attached.
3. Door closers fitted; doors and windows close properly
Why: a heater in a cabin with a propped-open door is heating the compound.
No control strategy survives that, and door sensors will simply report it happening
repeatedly.
Closers are cheap and they are the difference between a rule working and a rule being
overwhelmed.
4. Lighting and socket circuits grouped and labelled to the Gaia specification
Why: we can only switch a circuit as a whole. If lighting for a room shares
a circuit with something that must stay live, that circuit cannot be controlled at all.
Labelling matters for a duller reason: at commissioning we map each physical circuit to the
software. Clear, durable labels turn that into a short job. Handwritten tape turns it into
circuit tracing.
The labelling scheme in full
5. Circuits and control wiring suitable for central control
Why: practical limits. A circuit routed through a contactor must be on a
breaker of 25A or less, and both poles of a contactor must control identical appliances in the
same cabin, never split across two rooms.
Where a load is outside those limits it stays monitor-only: measured, never switched. That
applies to life-safety circuits and showers by default, and to anything else you designate as
critical.