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Anwendungen Solutions

Mark Stüdemann von der Bauerfeind AG. Beispiel eines Liegenschaftsdashboards in B-CON.
Mark Stüdemann from Bauerfeind AG. Sample of a facility management dashboard in B-CON.

Welche Anforderungen stellt Ihr Unterneh- Were there any particularly challenging What demands does your company place
men heute an die Managementebene? tasks? on its management today?

Stüdemann: Es ist uns ein großes Anliegen, im Stüdemann: The company’s data centre moni- Stüdemann: It is of course very important to
Unternehmen energieeffizient zu arbeiten. Das toring had to meet “Tier III” availability require- us, that the business works energy efficiently.
Energiemanagement wird stetig weiterentwi- ments. There were many challenges: ensuring We are continually developing our energy man-
ckelt. Es ist für uns von großem Nutzen, dass in-house technical personnel were alerted reli- agement. It is also of great benefit to us that,
wir mithilfe von B-CON über eine Leitebene mit ably and quickly, as well as transferring the most with the help of B-CON, we have a control level
einer Komplettübersicht verfügen, die unsere important data points from the connected con- with a complete overview that helps us to make
Systeme ausfallsicherer macht. Damit wird die trol systems. Legacy data had to be digitised. our systems fail-safe. This is very important to
hohe Verfügbarkeit der Anlagen hier am Stand- Highly available monitoring of the critical data ensure the high availability of the systems here
ort gewährleistet. Um der permanenten Entwick- centre infrastructure was aimed for, as well as at the site. In order to keep up with the constant
lung der Produkte gerecht zu werden, wird die the creation of two operational environments for development and optimisation of the products,
Gebäudeleittechnik stets den aktuellen Produk- the maintenance supervisor and the technician, the building control system is also always aligned
tionsprozessen angepasst und erweitert.  to enable the effective escalation management to the latest production processes and is con-
of fault messages. tinually being expanded. 

Mark Stüdemann works in facility management What role did BACnet (Building Automa-
for Bauerfeind AG, specifically in building sys- tion and Control Networks) play in this
tems technology. He answered questions about context?
the B-CON building software he works with, About ICONAG
from ICONAG-Leittechnik, Idar-Oberstein. Stüdemann: BACnet is a data transfer protocol
for building automation and building control that ICONAG-Leittechnik GmbH in Idar-Oberstein is
What were Bauerfeind’s goals when it set simplifies the communication between building an internationally active company specialising
up a management and control system for automation products from different manufactur- in the development and marketing of software
building automation? ers. We benefit from the many B-CON functions solutions for the digitisation of technical
which are tailor-made for BACnet, for example building management. Since the company was
Mark Stüdemann: After the completion of the a native interface to BACnet, direct reading of founded in 1996, its goal has been to simplify
administration building in September 2004, BACnet objects via the network, the transfer of the operational management of buildings in an
Bauerfeind took its first steps towards profes- the plant identification system from the BACnet increasingly complex technical landscape and
sional building control technology with the imple- objects, the direct visualisation of all objects for to reduce energy consumption. The basic
mentation of B-CON. This globally used standard display and control in list form, and many more. prerequisite for this: combining all the technical
for building visualisation replaced the existing Incidentally ICONAG provides a free BACnet functions and information of all maintenance
lighting control system and the in-house build- MBE guide with many practical tips for planning groups in a single management system.
ing control system. The plan was to meet the and calling for tender for a BACnet management Further information: www.iconag.com
increasing demands on modern building control and control system.
software and to be able to operate the many dif-
ferent interfaces via a single standardised soft-
ware user interface. Today large parts of our
buildings are centrally controlled with B-CON.

Dipl. Ing. Christian Wild
Geschäftsführer der ICONAG Leittechnik GmbH Idar-Oberstein
christian.wild@iconag.comwww.iconag.com

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