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Azure Marketplace: Smart Buildings by ICONICS

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IoT Use Case - Microsoft - ICONICS
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Reducing Energy and Maintenance Costs with Building Automation

ICONICS’ cloud-based building automation software provides energy management and fault detection for the management of large building complexes. This reduces energy and maintenance costs by up to 20 percent. The software can be obtained as an application from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

The Challenge: Managing and automating large building complexes

Managing large buildings or entire building complexes is a complex task. The basic building systems, especially for commercial properties, include water and wastewater, lighting, air conditioning, heating, sun shading, and elevators. In addition, there are specific requirements from commercial tenants such as video surveillance, electronic access control with key cards, extensive Ethernet cabling, or Wi-Fi infrastructure. There are often also cafeterias, canteens, and underground garages with their own requirements.

In short, the technical infrastructure of large commercial complexes is comparable in size and complexity to that of an entire city district. Building management faces numerous challenges as a result. For example, energy management is important for sustainability and cost reduction. Regular maintenance and repair of all systems is also a complex task that cannot be performed efficiently manually. Tenants, as well as property management, also demand visualization and reporting capabilities to be informed of the current status at all times and to implement data analysis, such as detecting leaks in air conditioning or unusually high electricity consumption.

The solution: Building automation with energy management and a cloud-based operations center

ICONICS is a specialist in automation solutions and offers building automation software on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. It helps building management to save an average of 12 to 20% in energy and maintenance costs. The software can process data from any number of buildings and also supports a variety of existing building automation systems.

An important function of the software is the monitoring of the building and the early detection of faults and malfunctions. Therefore, the Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) technology module is a crucial element of the software. It includes a standard rule library for failures. They can be easily customized to predict all device failures and inform personnel. This makes the system quick to configure and commission. It becomes highly accurate after a short period of time, reducing disruptions and downtime in building systems.

The software has connectors and interfaces to collect and process data from a variety of protocols and systems in a central manner. This includes, for example, the manufacturer-independent BACnet (Building Automation and Control network) protocol for communication of building systems devices, as well as industry standards such as OPC and Modbus, or network monitoring with SNMP. The data can then be aggregated, analyzed, and visualized,. This allows status and trend reports so that, for example, the longer-term energy consumption in certain parts of the building can be analyzed.

The monitoring and control of systems is done in a software operations center that integrates all data and functions. This allows for coordination of multiple buildings based on a unified schedule, among other features. The configured alerts can be sent to mobile devices as needed. In addition, there are special IoT edge solutions for building systems that simplify remote device management, reducing travel time for employees.

The result: Greater efficiency in building management and a reduction in costs of up to 20 percent

The fault detection software significantly shortens the time between the occurrence of a fault and its rectification. This reduces costs for the property management and the tenants. Business-critical technology is quickly restored in the event of a failure, so that commercial tenants do not experience any business problems.

A modern energy management system is particularly important for sustainability and CO2 reduction. The solution can significantly reduce energy costs, as unnecessary or excessively wasteful consumers can be identified relatively quickly. This also applies to faults in the electrical systems that lead to additional consumption that is difficult to detect.

Click here to find the app in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace: Smart Buildings by ICONICS

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