Pneumatic Controls Building Management Systems – Pneumatic Controls Popular back in the 1970’s and 1980’s, major concerns like Honeywell and Johnson Controls had many projects supplied with Pneumatic Controls, some or at least parts are still in service, especially damper and valve actuators. Optimizing the torque in these actuators via an “E to P” device. […]
BMS | Building Management System
The BMS is the automation system or “direct digital control (DDC)” system which Monitors and controls the core and peripheral fixed assets. of the commercial building, allowing the building to operate.
Priority Function
The BMS has a priority task for keeping the building occupants safe and comfortable. The System provids data and notifications of faults and statistical parameters of fixed assets as well as resources including Gas, Water, Energy, occupancy, outside ambient conditions and others.
Basic Picture
Picture a network of laptop computers linked together, hidden in different places , out of sight located in and around the building. These little computers have attached to them, the sensors for measurement and they have outputs to make equipment actuate, such as valve motor, a relay, a switch and other devices.
Now picture an IT technician whom can see all this information form the measurements on the network and them deciding to do something based upon a set of conditions, for example, its too hot on level 12, we’ll turn on the cooling; but how much cooling do they need? This is the program diversity of the BMS.
Upgrades
Sick Building Syndrome Building Management System Is your building “unwell”? What is it? and does a “sick building” cost the landlord money directly and indirectly? We read about “Sick Building Syndrome” from time to time, in various publications, and we ask “what is the cost?”. The Cost to the Landlord, The Cost to the Property […]
Building Management System Giving you Grief Unlock Your Building from “BMS Single Vendor Captivity”. Building Management Systems (BMS) was designed as labour and energy-saving systems. They can be an absolute delight to work with, delivering information accurately, switching plant equipment, lighting, and monitoring other building services. Recording and trend logging the results the physical assets […]
How Can we Improve Automated Sustainability with Building Management Systems (BMS) To develop and expand your BMS for greater automated sustainability should be financially viable. As you might imagine, developing and expanding you building management system to improve control of energy consuming resources, within your facility, such as the mechanical services HVAC plant and lighting […]
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” Why should a Landlord Upgrade building management system technology in their commercial Building? Installed in the Commercial building, you, as the facility manager, are there to look after, a perfectly good Building Management System. The Property Manager or Landlord talks to you about getting prices to upgrade the […]
Small Project Management Why install a variable speed drive? “Several contractors have suggested we install a VSD in our pump and fan motors, Why”. What is a VSD or VFD?, The acronym, VSD, is for Variable Speed Drive, and the acronym VFD stands for Variable Frequency Drive; for our purposes, in building management, they are […]
Frustration! The greatest industry challenge we regularly witness is the frustrated client who wants to use another vendor and feels trapped with the vendor they have now, “Vendor captivity” in BMS, Automation, HVAC and Access Control can cost landlords and property manager more money than it should. Our goal is to “unwrap” the client and […]
