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Vape Detection & Air Quality Sensor
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UniFi’s Vape Detection & Air Quality Sensors is ideal in the spaces schools and businesses can’t watch – restrooms, changing rooms and unsupervised corners – turning them into monitored, alert-driven environments without the use of cameras.
How the Sensor Works
Real-time detection, without a camera in sight
The UniFi Vape Detection & Air Quality Sensor is a single, discreet device that connects to your network via standard PoE Ethernet network cable. It’s simple to adopt into your existing UniFi Protect setup and starts monitoring and streaming readings the moment it’s installed. There’s no separate app, no additional wiring and no camera, which makes it a good fit for sensitive spaces such as toilets and changing areas.
Tuned to your building, not left on default settings
Every room has its own background mix of everyday vapours and sprays, from cleaning products and steam to deodorant sprays. That’s why L.E.A.D. IT Services calibrates each sensor’s detection threshold to the room it’s monitoring and protecting. We then review and fine-tune it against real alerts during the first few weeks, so you get genuine detections rather than false alarms.
- Adjustable sensitivity, set and tested for each room during installation
- CO₂ and air quality alerts flag poor ventilation before it affects concentration or wellbeing
- Alerts are triggered by sustained readings, so a single slamming door won’t set it off
Placed in your vaping hotspots
We position vape sensor devices with one question in mind: where would a pupil, student or employee actually go to vape unseen? Placement is what determines whether a sensor catches a real event or just sits on a wall – so it’s the first thing we assess on every installation.
Toilets & restrooms
The single most common vaping location in any school or workplace – and the key location where camera surveillance cannot be applied.
Changing rooms
Sports changing rooms and PE facilities, mounted away from steam and showers to protect detection accuracy.
Unsupervised corridors & stairwells
Quiet stretches between lessons or shifts where a pupil or member of staff can step out of sight for a minute.
Isolation & exclusion rooms
Spaces already used for behaviour management, where discreet monitoring supports the safeguarding process already in place.
Stock rooms & back-of-house areas
In workplaces, the storerooms, plant rooms and loading areas that sit outside normal staff sightlines.
Enclosed common rooms
Sixth form and staff common rooms, minibuses and other enclosed spaces where a single sensor covers the whole volume.
A problem most policies can't see
Vaping doesn’t happen in the corridor, on camera, in full view of staff. It happens behind a locked cubicle door, in a changing room between lessons, in the one corner of the building nobody is standing in. Writing a policy is easy. Enforcing it in a space you’re not legally or practically allowed to put a camera in is a genuinely different problem.
That’s exactly what UniFi’s Vape Detection & Air Quality Sensor is built for – and what L.E.A.D. IT Services installs, calibrates and supports for schools, colleges and businesses across the UK.
Detects vape aerosol in real time, in spaces where cameras aren’t appropriate
Monitors CO2, air quality, humidity, temperature and particulate matter continuously
Sends instant alerts to the staff best placed to respond – before a habit becomes normalised
Active prevention, not passive logging
Alerts reach the right person while it’s still happening
A sensor that quietly logs data after the fact doesn’t change behaviour. The value of this system is in the moment it fires: an alert lands with the staff member best placed to respond, while the pupil or employee is still in the room.
- Automated alerts routed straight to designated staff via UniFi Protect and Alarm Manager
- Can trigger a nearby announcement or notification the moment a vape event is confirmed
- Alerts can be corroborated against nearby corridor cameras, without ever placing a camera in the sensitive space itself
- Sustained air quality alerts flag ventilation issues to facilities staff before they become a wellbeing problem
Unifi Vape Detector product specification
From UniFi’s techspecs.ui.com
Dimensions: ⌀93 x 40.5mm (⌀3.7 x 1.6″)
Mounting: Wall, ceiling and table
UniFi Application Suite: Protect
Networking Interface: (1)10/100 MbE RJ45 port
Connectivity: Ethernet
Sensor Features
- Temperature sensor ✓
- Humidity Sensor ✓
- Air Quality: CO2, PM1, PM2.5, PM4, PM10, VOC, AQI, Vape
- Sampling Rate: 1 Hz
Sensitivity Range
Temperature Sensor: 0–40° C (32–104° F)
Humidity Sensor: 0–90% RH
Air Quality: 0–500
CO2 Sensor: 0–40,000 ppm
PM1/PM2.5/PM4/PM10: 0–1000 μg/m³
VOC Index: 1–500
Vape Index: 0–100
Accuracy
PM1/PM2.5: 0–100: ±(5 µg/m³ + 5% m.v.) 100–1000: ±10% m.v.
PM4/PM10: 0–100: ±25 µg/m³ 100–1000: ±25% m.v.
VOC: ±5%
CO2: 400–2000: ±(50 ppm + 3% of reading) 2000–5000: ±(50 ppm + 5% of reading)
Temperature: ±1° C (1.8° F)
Relative Humidity: ±8% RH
Max. Power Consumption: 2.2W
Supported Voltage Range: 37–57V
Power Method: PoE
Weight: 190 g (6.7 oz)
Enclosure Material: Polycarbonate
Mount Material: Aluminum alloy, stainless steel
LEDs:
(1) Status: White/Blue
(1) Air quality indicator: Red/Green/Yellow/Violet
Operating Environment: Indoor use only
Ambient Operating Temperature: Recommended 10 to 35° C (50 to 95° F)
Ambient Operating Humidity: 10 to 90% noncondensing
Certifications: CE, FCC, IC
NDAA Compliant: ✓
Application Requirements
Web Application: UniFi Protect: Version 7.1 or later.
Mobile App: UniFi Protect iOS™: Version 3.6.0 or later. Android™: Version 3.5.0 or later.
FAQs
Vape Detection & Air Quality Sensor
The Unifi Vape Detector identifies the specific aerosol signature produced by vapour and e-cigarette emissions in the surrounding air, giving a Vape Index reading in real time. It cannot identify who caused the reading — only that vaping has likely occurred, in a specific room, at a specific time – which is exactly why it’s suitable for restrooms and changing rooms where cameras aren’t appropriate.
Placement has the biggest impact on detection speed and accuracy. As part of our installation service, L.E.A.D. IT Services sites each sensor close to where vaping is most likely to occur – near cubicles rather than doorways, away from direct airflow, extractor fans and air fresheners – with one sensor per enclosed room, since walls and partitions block airflow to the device.
It can, which is why calibration matters. Every sensor has an adjustable sensitivity setting, and L.E.A.D. IT Services tunes this to each specific room during installation and reviews it against real-world alerts in the first weeks of use, minimising false positives from cleaning products, steam or air fresheners.
Alerts are configured to route to whichever staff you choose — a designated safeguarding lead, site team or duty manager — through UniFi Protect and Alarm Manager, so the right person is notified within seconds rather than discovering an issue after the fact.
Both. Alongside the Vape Index, it continuously measures CO2, temperature, humidity, and particulate matter (PM1–PM10), giving a full Air Quality Index reading. This means the same device that flags vaping can also flag poor ventilation in classrooms, offices and communal spaces.
Yes. While demand is highest from schools and colleges managing pupil vaping in restrooms and unsupervised spaces, L.E.A.D. IT Services installs the same Vape Detectors for businesses looking to monitor air quality in offices, back-of-house areas and staff facilities.
The sensor connects and is powered over a single PoE Ethernet cable and is adopted directly into UniFi Protect – no separate power supply or standalone app required. L.E.A.D. IT Services handles the full installation, from cabling and mounting through to adoption, calibration and integration with your existing network.
Yes. We’re based on Pride Park in Derby, but we install and support UniFi’s Vape Detection & Air Quality Sensors for schools, Multi Academy Trusts and businesses across the UK.
Monitor and protect your spaces from prohibited vaping
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