Smart Building systems can use the data generated to monitor performance , track the physical location of assets, detect potential operating issues, and improve preventive maintenance efforts.
While they hardly resembled the steel and glass that make up a modern city skyline, these early structures had the same purpose - to provide a comfortable space for the people inside. Buildings today are complex concatenations of structures, systems, and technology. Over time, each of the components inside a building has been developed and improved, allowing modern-day building owners to select lighting, security, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems independently as if they were putting together a home entertainment system.
Today, we seek to build, work, and live in smart buildings as the right thing to do. Many governments and industry regulators set standards for constructing and managing facilities to meet environmental, safety, and sustainability requirements. Smart Cities, cities that monitor all critical infrastructure conditions, including bridges, streets, water, electric systems, and more, are on the rise, as well.
The answer is simple: no. The very fact that integrated data center management IDCM has evolved from the integration of Building Management Systems and Data Center Management Systems is proof that they are complementary technology solutions.
Like a BMS, DCIM monitors power consumption of different components of the power chain, calculates PUE of the data center, monitors temperatures and hot spots, sends alerts on breach of a configured threshold, etc.
While DCIM certainly does a better job in the overlapping areas, some functions are beyond its purview and can be managed only by a BMS. Instead, a more practical approach is to make the two solutions complement each other in the overall data center management as in an Integrated Data Center Management solution.
At the same time, stick to BMS for gathering data from the deepest layer of the physical infrastructure of the data center. What is the difference between? What is a Building Management System? BMS Basics. Who are the major Building Control Systems vendors? Does it make sense to integrate my BMS with other systems today? Originally the number of building systems was quite limited and somewhere around the eighties integration started and the BMS became an integrated BMS for integrated or intelligent building management.
The concept and view of the intelligent building and intelligent building management really has to do with the convergence and integration of information technology IT and the increasing usage of analytics and actionable data as enabled by IP and more IT-oriented systems and information-intensive applications and technologies within the BMS space several years ago.
Integrated building management is overlapping but de facto is more used in a context of building management whereby building functions are integrated at the start. In an age where the BMS is the center of connectivity in the building that will increasingly dominated by new connectivity technologies, IoT and intelligence gathered through more data and information sources IoT and sensors are one thing, leveraging the intelligence another and more about intelligent buildings these differences will only matter in the jargon of whomever needs it.
When we talk about analytics, actionable intelligence, the Internet of things and artificial intelligence, which increasingly plays a role in the overall building and in IoT and big data as such, another term that inevitably pops up is the smart building. As building management and the BMS evolve and change with the advent of IoT, AI and predictive analytics, and as the evolutions with regards to buildings are universal, discussions about differences between intelligent or smart buildings will soon be archaic or purely academic.
Smart is the term that seems to be loved by anyone active in IoT and analytics and other technologies in convergence and context: from smart buildings and smart offices to the smart home , smart cities and even smart hair dryer which is not a joke but you can ponder why you would need one. The difference between an intelligent building and a smart building today?
Mainly age. Some point to differences between both, among others with regards to the building controls and the presence or not of artificial intelligence, predictive analytics and more. Trust us, soon enough it will all just be intelligent building management or simply building management as the market evolves fast and integrated building automation case studies demonstrate the benefits without a focus on the jargon. The drivers are obviously pretty similar to those in other building managament and building automation evolutions we cover below and with the findings of the industry experts mentioned in this overview.
Whereas building management and BMS systems mainly used to look at the automation of building elements in the field of HVAC equipment, over the years they began to include lighting control, access control and so forth.
Martin describes how the BMS is taking center stage again as the hub of connectivity with other building systems. Coming from a situation of proprietary standards, followed by rather slow technologies such as OPC Open Protocol Connectivity , going hand in hand with developments on the level of networking technologies and IT as well as evolutions in building technologies, we can now speak about a genuine transformation in building management on various levels: the technologies, the disruptions in the market, the changes in customer expectations, the business models and the role of the BMS.
Where is the IoT? Pretty much everywhere and soon at the edge and in intelligent autonomous decisions with the BMS as a visualization hub as well. The advent of IP about a decade ago and, more or less recently, the rise of the IoT and cloud, big data analytics and other third platform technology realities , had and will continue to have a tremendous impact on the evolutions in building management and BMS as mentioned.
With the evolutions in IoT, artificial intelligence and cognitive, analytics at the edge edge computing, fog computing and more, the face of building management continues to evolve and the BMS increasingly takes center stage in the bigger building picture, beyond the traditional scope of BMS and in its connecting with several other systems and building-related areas.
The growing integration of IoT with building automation systems is driving the growth of the BMS market based on software. In the interview about building management systems and IoT, Martin Feder explained how IP and IoT are leading the market towards an integrated approach whereby the BMS is becoming the digital hub of buildings. This is even more the case if we look at the distribution of intelligent technologies at the edge whereby the BMS becomes far more important.
And it also forces building management professionals to look at the building overall, instead of only the BMS part as traditionally was the case.
It is exactly what is happening and what is taught in the BMS partner certification program of EcoXpert. The movement to IP and to IoT is far from finished.
Meters can also be monitored to provide information on energy usage including gas, electric and water, sub meters are often installed to determine energy use in specific areas of a building. Within the BMS control panel there are controllers which hold the strategy that is used to control the building. All manufacture a range of controllers used in building management systems.
Demand response is a well-proven solution to reduce the energy demand when the supply cannot keep up. It allows to down-size power grids while maintaining continuity of service during peak demand. Used primarily by high-load industries steel plants, hypermarkets, cement plants, etc. The financial and technical challenge of the energy transition pushes states to increase demand response incentives to expand the coverage ratio. Energy utilities and aggregators turn these incentives into increasingly attractive deals for energy consumers.
To truly scale, there should be no impact at all. Shortest return on investment. HVAC systems are the preferred loads for scalable demand response solutions because: They have high inertia building masses, water loops, buffer tanks, cold rooms, among others and can be operated as an energy battery with virtually no impact on the building occupants and operations. They are high energy loads translating in sizeable demand response value creation.
The cost of the deployment with legacy solutions is very high.
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