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Building Automation: Service Overview
A Building Automation System (BAS), (also referred to as a Building Management System or a Building Control System), is a system that controls various electric, electronic and mechanical systems throughout a building.
It is a distributed control system that integrates different types of building systems together into one centralized location. Building automation systems are primarily utilized to control the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) in a building, but are also used to control lighting, security and other building systems.
BAS works as a computer networking system that monitors and controls a range of other electronic and mechanical systems. It provides a means for these disparate systems to communicate across platforms, software and languages.
How BAS can help you?
Building Automation Systems are designed to run unobtrusively in the background. If you notice them, then they’re not really doing their job. That said, it’s easy for industry leaders to forget just how necessary they are. So, how do building automation systems help you?
- For Facility Managers – BAS can make running a facility (no matter the type of facility) easier. Such a system can help facility managers them get a better handle on energy losses and inefficiencies.
- For Business Owners – Building Automation can save money on energy, help make equipment (like HVAC Equipment and other building systems) last longer, and it can make occupants feel more comfortable.
- For Hospital Chief Executive Officers or Chief Operating Officers – A comprehensive, well-running, up-to-date BAS is essential. A hospital can be one building or a sprawling string of building that must run at efficiently at all times. Some of the common needs are HVAC and lighting, but there are others that are just as essential, such as ventilation, sterilizing systems, mechanized sanitation protocols and/or air purification. A hospital needs all these various types of automation to run optimally.
- For property managers and building owners – A extensive building automation system can provide immediate access to a single dashboard into which all other automated systems flow into. In this way, you can manage lighting, HVAC, elevators, security, etc. from one place.
How are building automation systems beneficial?
A well-running Building Automation System has many benefits. Some of these benefits are as follows:
- An extensive BAS can control many systems (such as fire and flood safety, ventilation and security) at one time, which diminishes the opportunity for human error.
- A BAS system can monitor the performance of various systems.
- A building automation system can provide fail-safe mechanisms to come online when electronic or mechanical failures occur. This is especially important in dangerous, high-risk work environments.
- It can improve the efficiency of the other systems within a building.
- An energy management system can reduce energy consumption and subsequently the operating expenses of the various systems involved.
- It can extend the life cycle of various utilities so that you get more bang for your buck and less frequent repairs.
- A BAS can provide a consistent level of comfort for occupants.
- A building automation system can run lockouts, which ensure that machinery doesn’t turn on unless it’s supposed to.
- It can run diagnostics to monitor temperature, pressures, flows, etc. over various systems.
- A well-integrated BAS eliminates the redundancy that can occur when too much of the automation in a building overlaps.