BMS
Building Management Systems / Equipment Control: HVAC&R, lighting, compressors, dryers, etc
Upgrading the AMR, live metering and sub-metering applications with t-mac, businesses can incorporate CONTROL. By connecting t-mac to lighting, heating, air-conditioning, refrigeration, compressors and other energy intensive equipment within a building or site, the system can highlight opportunities for energy reduction by identifying unnecessary use and controlling this equipment to reduce use and cost to the company.
Control of heating, lighting, air condition, refrigeration and compressors alone can improve energy reduction targets from 15 per cent to 30 per cent by simply switching things off at night, reducing set-point controls and ensuring counteractive equipment isn’t operating at the same time, (for example air conditioning operational while heating is on).
Energy management should be about best practice:
- identify consumption (mains meter)
- identify inefficiencies (sub-metering) but also
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reduce excess consumption and eradicating
waste (through control)
An immediate energy saving opportunity from implementing 'control' is being able to stop air conditioning fighting heating systems; e.g. t-mac has found that whilst a boiler is running 24/7, colleagues may turn down the radiators to reduce heat in the rooms, and then switch on the air conditioning.
Other quick wins from adding CONTROL through t-mac is to (i) manage time-clocks which independently run a variety of equipment within the building and are usually out of sync and (ii) manage temperature set-point control to remove the varying temperature set-points often caused by staff increasing and decreasing temperatures within the building.
The MINI BMS software provides a graphical user interface to manage, review and amend the BMS controls strategy with t-mac; a simple and easy to use portal making BMS easy!