Building management system
Complex infrastructures require a variety of building automation and control systems. Buildings can be equipped with technologies as common as fire prevention and alarm handling - but this also goes a lot further. Think of fingerprint recognition, license plate capture cameras, etc.
Why building management systems (BMS)?
Have you given the management of all these technologies a moment's thought? The time and amount of people it takes to handle every system separately? Without a building management system, the operator's control room looks somewhat like figure 1.
A BMS enables the centralisation and optimisation of the monitoring, operating, and managing of a building. These systems are used for a more efficient management of complex infrastructures and transportation forms. The most common advantages are:
- Problems are detected earlier
- Higher level of control
- Increased productivity
- Possibility to log everything that occurs
- Remote controlling is possible over a secure network
The operator's control room with a building management systems looks like figure 2. Clean, simple and easy to use. The system operator will only have to deal with one graphical user interface by which trainings, maintenance, misunderstandings, interpretations, faults, etc, are reduced to a minimum. This is the workspace of tomorrow.
