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Building Management Systems (BMS) are predominantly installed within larger buildings
due to their great expense and hence huge investment required by business as a result,
there are a number of buildings worldwide that do not benefit from BMS management
and control applications. With t-mac those smaller buildings can benefit from intelligent
BMS and can now be one-step ahead of the larger buildings using traditional BMS
devices as, with t-mac, your buildings’ monitoring, controlling and asset-management
activities can be viewed, controlled and diagnosed over the Internet.
Easy to install and operate, t-mac is a new generation of BMS. It operates by being
programmed to monitor specific assets within a building for example HVAC&R, and
manage its conditions. From continuous monitoring the t-mac system ensures that
all equipment is working in accordance with the settings and in accordance with
changing building use. Should performance deviate outside these settings, t-mac
will send alerts to facilities managers, via SMS/email, e.g. if a leak occurs, temperature/loads
exceeds desired limits, lighting is left on out-of-hours or heating equipment is
running at the same time as cooling.
Accurate and up-to-date status data from the HVAC&R equipment is gathered via analogue
or digital inputs and automatically and wirelessly (GPRS) transmitted and uploaded
to a central server. Facilities managers can then log on through a dedicated web
page to view asset information via interactive graphs, tables and gauges, which
can easily be downloaded into CSV format for standard database analysis and reporting.
t-mac can also identify excessive energy use, highlight which equipment is using
more energy and why and from this establish a plan to reduce energy consumption,
improve equipment performance and gain best practice techniques. Building management
devices can also turn equipment on or off if it goes over certain temperature levels
t-mac, achieves all of this without additional costly software, as users access
information via any Internet enabled PC and without the requirement for human interaction
as t-mac transmits data off-site automatically. With t-mac’s built in logic controller
users can control boiler on/off times by analysing temperatures and coordinating
suitable ‘on’ times, they can also remotely shut-down machinery or turn it off if
levels/load become critical.
In short, t-mac, can monitor and report on any variable that can be collected electronically,
such as temperature, pressure, volume, energy and flow. While a data logging and
reporting device is not a new concept, it is systems, such as t-mac’s, ability
to automatically transmit remotely monitored and controlled information and allow
users to access and easily analyse data via any Internet enabled PC at any time,
that is. This new form of intelligence makes way for proactive maintenance as 24/7
monitoring and control with t-mac helps facilities managers to become less ‘reactive’
when it comes to building and equipment maintenance issues, and more proactive and
intuitive when it comes to energy management and savings. Flexible and interactive
building control systems are becoming increasingly important to delivering optimum
efficiency.
An Internet facilitated remote BMS device, t-mac provides this flexibility and interactivity
with buildings and equipment, allowing business to remotely monitor, record and
provide critical readings and historic reports on heating, cooling, and lighting
conditions as well as associated wastage and hence energy consumption
Systems such as t-mac can play an indispensable role in fault detection/repair as
well as meeting legislative requirements and improving energy efficiency. It is
the calibre and intelligence of this technology that helps free up valuable man-hours.
For instance the t-mac device allows remote automation of machines and assets, meaning
that facilities managers don’t have to be on-site to turn a machine on or off or
to find out how a machine or asset is running – they can do this remotely through
any Internet connection.
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