Building Automation System: Large scale home automation solutions

The term automation refers to the automatic or computer solutions available to the occupants of a large building, no matter if it's a building, a tertiary building or public. More complex than home automation, building automation makes it possible to improve the comfort of buildings and manage their energy consumption more intelligently.

Building automation system and home automation

Technical solutions to improve your everyday life-

The building automation system includes technical solutions that apply mainly to these areas:

• The security of the occupants of a building: alarms, video surveillance, access control. 
• The comfort: remote management and automation of lighting or heating equipment. By limiting the use of painful gestures, it helps to keep elderly people at home.
• Maintenance and upkeep: alerts in case of failure, prevention of equipment maintenance operations.
• The increase in energy performance: monitoring of energy consumption, thermostatic control systems, automation of controlled ventilation or heating systems, adaptation of lighting and temperature according to the occupation of the premises, the season.
• Networking of technical services for remote control, for example via the internet.

These control systems are the same as those used in smart home automation but used at the scale of a large building. The building automation system allows even greater energy savings and facilitates the maintenance of common equipment. The management and rationalization of resources are all the more important as the building is home to many people. The distribution of sufficient resources when everyone needs them often results in a waste of energy. The building automation provides an overview of all the automated processes related to the operation of a building.

Installation of a building automation system in a building

Composition of building automation solutions-

Building automation system, such as home automation systems, generally consist of the following elements:

• Of sensors (motion, light, heat etc.) the collected data will be processed by computer.
• Of actuators, implementing a process when a specific event is detected.
• Some programs, charged to relate to conditions relating to shares in the form of pre-recorded scenarios.
• Of computer software to analyze, predict and treat the collected data.

The use of building automation solutions generates additional costs during construction, whether in construction or renovation. On the other hand, the investment is quickly amortized by the energy savings achieved, of the order of 10 to 20%.

Towards smart buildings-

Current advances in the building automation sector can hope for changes in the coming years. The trails to explore are still numerous:

• Smart grids or smart grids, the Linky meter is a current example.
• ecodistricts
• Coupling with solutions producing renewable energies in anticipation of the generalization of BEPOS, positive energy buildings.

Perhaps the adoption of connected home technologies will involve building automation experiments on buildings, neighborhoods or public buildings by communities. These adoption methods ca really increase the efficiency of to be lame technologies in the infrastructure sector. 

References: 

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