Services and Solutions
LONWORKS® TECHNOLOGIES
"Advanced Building Automation"
The concept of the “intelligent building” or Advanced Building Automation, covers those constructions designed and built so as to allow their technical services to be run by an integrated, computerised system, data-control tools and the communication networks installed in them. Such buildings are able to maximise the life-cycles of their technical systems and equipment, to reduce their running costs and to increase the organisational efficiency of those working in them. Computer and telecommunications technology constitutes the central tool for achieving this objective, integrating the technical resources installed in the building. In the design of a building, the “intelligent” components cannot be conceived as self-contained systems: they have to be planned in parallel with the installation, constructional and structural specifications, and on the basis of the organisation of the spacial and operative needs of the building’s occupants. In this way a common project emerges created by different designers and different specialists in the construction and computer fields, interacting to unite their respective areas of expertise to achieve the highest performance levels for both individual systems and of the building as a whole. A Building Automation project will therefore include the design of a particular building structure, integrated into a computerised system, organised in turn into subsystems like lighting, electrical energy distribution, air conditioning and security that interact with one another at various levels so as to obtain, besides more economical running, an all-round improvement in environmental characteristics. If one considers that in advanced tertiary sector buildings the costs of such installations account for a third of the entire construction cost not to mention the high running costs, it becomes clear how important is detailed planning that avoids disproportion or redundancy in installation. It is important to underline moreover how the energy issue and greater attention to the question of environmental pollution today emphasise the need to use sustainable technologies to reduce as much as possible energy dependency in creating environmental conditions in line with current expectations of quality. The system must be able automatically to regulate, switch off and switch on components where necessary to prevent errors or omissions by the users.
Services and Solutions
LONWORKS® TECHNOLOGIES
"Advanced Building Automation"
The concept of the “intelligent building” or Advanced Building Automation, covers those constructions designed and built so as to allow their technical services to be run by an integrated, computerised system, data-control tools and the communication networks installed in them. Such buildings are able to maximise the life-cycles of their technical systems and equipment, to reduce their running costs and to increase the organisational efficiency of those working in them. Computer and telecommunications technology constitutes the central tool for achieving this objective, integrating the technical resources installed in the building. In the design of a building, the “intelligent” components cannot be conceived as self-contained systems: they have to be planned in parallel with the installation, constructional and structural specifications, and on the basis of the organisation of the spacial and operative needs of the building’s occupants. In this way a common project emerges created by different designers and different specialists in the construction and computer fields, interacting to unite their respective areas of expertise to achieve the highest performance levels for both individual systems and of the building as a whole. A Building Automation project will therefore include the design of a particular building structure, integrated into a computerised system, organised in turn into subsystems like lighting, electrical energy distribution, air conditioning and security that interact with one another at various levels so as to obtain, besides more economical running, an all-round improvement in environmental characteristics. If one considers that in advanced tertiary sector buildings the costs of such installations account for a third of the entire construction cost not to mention the high running costs, it becomes clear how important is detailed planning that avoids disproportion or redundancy in installation. It is important to underline moreover how the energy issue and greater attention to the question of environmental pollution today emphasise the need to use sustainable technologies to reduce as much as possible energy dependency in creating environmental conditions in line with current expectations of quality. The system must be able automatically to regulate, switch off and switch on components where necessary to prevent errors or omissions by the users.
