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News Release from: Citect | Subject: CitectFacilities
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Cut building management costs on
multiple sites
CitectFacilities is an open and reliable way to cut building management costs and to achieving centralised single or multi-site control: it has been applied to the Einstein III building in Munich
CitectFacilities is an open and reliable way to cut building management costs and to achieving centralised single or multi-site control CitectFacilities V6 is the 21st century answer to cutting building operating costs and to providing managers with the benefits of centralised monitoring of their real estate assets
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 29 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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This control can be across single or multi-sites with an integrated web client, providing secure, reliable and easy access from anywhere in an enterprise.
The integrated web client is just one of a host of new features adding further to the powerful functionality of the dual-redundant V6 facilities package.
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V6 is characterised by its open architecture, which allows easy integration of building automation protocols such as LonWorks, BACnet and Modbus, and its intuitive graphics that enable end users and independent system integrators to quickly develop and deploy building management solutions.
In addition to these features, V6 introduces the 'Process Analyst - a next generation visualisation tool that enables building operators to quickly analyse the cause of building automation problems by bringing together trend and alarm data, which are traditionally stored separately.
The new tool also goes further: helping operators to recognise patterns that lead to particular problems occurring, so that in future they can be avoided.
The Process Analyst eliminates the need for operators to build custom analysis screens: providing instead an integrated trend and alarm viewer.
This means that, rather than having to compare a separate historical analogue trend display with an alarm summary or log printout, users can simply view them all on a single integrated display, which benefits from the introduction on V6 of high quality, true 32 bit colour and the addition of over 500 new graphics symbols.
Together, these make it easier and faster for operators to create intuitive pages.
Complementing its improved analysis and visualisation facilities, CitectFacilities V6 also provides an integrated Scheduler function that provides the functionality to automatically control equipment, based upon calendar events.
Scheduling is an important feature in building automation, where cost savings through optimised energy usage is a key factor.
For example, the Scheduler ensures that after working hours heating and lighting are automatically switched-off, room temperatures are lowered, and other equipment is not left running longer than required.
In addition, with configured "special days", the Scheduler can automatically control certain parts of a building during holidays or other irregular events.
CitectFacilities has provided an integrated building management system to one of Germany's most prestigious buildings: the Einstein III building in Munich.
Named after Germany's most famous scientific son, the building offers 37,000 sqm of office and commercial space and is intelligent, just like its namesake, impressing not only with its functional architecture but also through its flexible and ultra-modern building automation technology.
Citect worked with German company, Amann , a Citect Certified Integration Partner to develop an integrated building automation solution for the Einstein III building.
This combined the scaleable architecture and open standards of CitectFacilities with the European Installation Bus (EIB) and BACnet.
The resulting system meets the requirements of a dynamic enterprise, optimising energy utilisation to achieve substantial cost savings, whilst simultaneously providing tenants with consistent individual levels of comfort.
Thanks to Citect, Einstein III is the first building in Germany with the ability to independently control environmental conditions in each of its rooms.
This is achieved using the building BACnet DDC controllers.
In the glassed rotunda of the building, all areas are equipped with air conditioning units and fans to handle ventilation, heating and cooling.
All of these services are controlled centrally by CitectFacilities, and the motorised sun protection blinds on the outside of the building.
The shutters of the blinds are controlled in two ways: locally via a keypad, and automatically, depending upon the amount of sun and wind prevailing on the exterior of the building.
The assigned controllers in the different sub-stations for ventilation and heating communicate over Ethernet using BACnet objects.
In total, approximately 6000 EIB group addresses are used for visualisation on the CitectFacilities system.
In this way all the data can be controlled or altered from a single office, considerably streamlining maintenance and saving time.
The advanced server/client architecture of the CitectFacilities system means that only the server requires a bus coupler to BACnet, which saves on system equipment cost. Request a free brochure from Citect ...
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