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Building management systems
News Release from: Citect | Subject: Citect Nexa
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 January 2007
Centralised single or multi-site control
Citect Nexa is open and reliable way to cut building management costs and achieve centralised single or multi-site control, integrating climate, lighting and other systems
Citect has launched Nexa, a specialised facilities monitoring system focussed on the rapidly growing global Building Automation market Nexa integrates climate, lighting and other systems in single or multi-site facilities, creating enterprise-wide monitoring and control systems
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 10 Nov 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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PC-based, Nexa can significantly reduce operating and maintenance costs; it allows a property or facility manager to reduce energy consumption, track after-hours use and generate customised reports for individual billing of all building tenants.
Nexa provides safe, cost-effective, and efficient control for single buildings or entire complexes.
Its design is centred on reliability, with multi-level, hardware independent redundancy provided to ensure constant communication from the server to all remote I/O.
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In addition, the facility with Nexa for optional dual servers and dual networking can provide an additional level of operational reliability.
Implemented either as a standalone facility maintenance management system, or integrated with CitectSCADA Reports information technology, a Nexa solution ensures continuous monitoring and control of facility functions including security and access control; HVAC: heating, chillers, ventilation, air filtration; electrical distribution and energy use; lighting; fire detection and suppression; and lifts.
Based on the superior architecture of the world-leading CitectSCADA software, Nexa incorporates major features such as a zero maintenance, fully functional Web Client, which offers easier enterprise access for more efficient decision making, and Process Analyst, a next generation historical visualisation tool, which enables processes to be optimised by providing an integrated display of trends and alarms.
The package also allows open, non-proprietary facilities monitoring and control solutions to be implemented across hardware devices supplied from multiple vendors.
As such, it includes drivers for integration with all networks commonly used in facilities maintenance management, such as BACnet, LONWorks, OPC, Profibus, and many more.
This openness protects existing investments; it also provides an upgrade path for future expansion and upgrades.
The flexibility and increased effectiveness provided by a Nexa solution enables operators to employ PC-based displays anywhere on a network, in order to change set points and to override equipment operation.
The software features centralised access control for facility security; it also permits continuous 24/7 monitoring of multiple sites, reducing labour requirements and improving the productivity of building maintenance and security personnel.
In addition, Nexa offers the convenience of a Citect Plant2Business interface, which enables back offices to perform billing as required.
With every Nexa package users get a state-of-the-art development toolkit, which includes: HMI and display development tools, including a specialised library of facility management graphics; WAN capability with a centralised database; redundancy at every level with no special hardware requirements; drivers for standard I/O devices and controllers; historical and real-time trending; alarm management and event scheduling. Request a free brochure from Citect ...
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