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Solutions Anwendungen

Network Control Center Instead of

Isolated Solution for the City of Böblingen

Verbundleitstelle statt Insellösung für

die Stadt Böblingen

With a population of 52,000, the
large district town of Böblingen is an
important conurbation in the center of
Baden-Württemberg. The tasks of the
building management department are
correspondingly extensive: the city’s
numerous properties need to be managed,
maintained, operated economically and
kept up to date with the latest technology.
Since 2023, the city of Böblingen has
been supported in this task by OAS Open © all pictures: OAS | © alle Bilder: OAS
Automation Systems with a web-based
network control center based on the
Niagara 4 framework.
Mit 52.000 Einwohnern ist die Große
Kreisstadt Böblingen ein wichtiger All properties at a glance: the BMS supervisor portal for the city of Böblingen.
Ballungsraum im Zentrum Baden- Alle Liegenschaften im Blick: Das BMS-Supervisor-Portal der Stadt Böblingen.
Württembergs. Entsprechend umfangreich
sind die Aufgaben des Amtes für
Gebäudemanagement: Die zahlreichen
Liegenschaften der Stadt wollen betreut,
gepflegt, wirtschaftlich betrieben und
auf dem aktuellen Stand der Technik
gehalten werden. Bei dieser Aufgabe
wird die Stadt Böblingen seit 2023 von
OAS Open Automation Systems mit einer
webbasierten Verbundleitstelle auf Basis
des Niagara-4-Frameworks unterstützt.

200 properties are owned by the city of
Böblingen. If you exclude smaller properties, this
leaves around 150 buildings, each with its own
local building management system – and the
numerous problems that come with it over the
years of operation: a lack of energy efficiency, Digital Böblingen: All connected properties can be accessed in the supervisor portal.
skyrocketing heating costs, a lack of overview Digitales Böblingen: Alle angeschlossenen Liegenschaften können im Supervisor-Portal angesteuert werden.
or slow response times in the event of failures.
In 2022, the decision was made to renovate
and modernize the city’s building management open Niagara framework. In short, everything Three major modernization projects
system “The city of Böblingen was looking for a was a perfect fit,” says OAS Managing Director
full-service provider for a central server with an Ralf Rostock, describing the discovery process. In April of the new year 2023, work began on three
integrated BMS and user-friendly visualization. At Together with system partners PGA Automation large properties: the Albert Einstein Grammar
the same time, the city attached great importance and ES Müller, OAS set about implementing School, the Erich Kästner Primary School and
to the software being based on a common and, the project: modernizing and refurbishing the the Albert Schweizer Secondary School. As part
above all, open standard. Not only were we technical systems, setting up a new building of this work, the existing building automation
able to fully map the technical specifications management system and implementing a web- systems and the control cabinets in the school
for building automation. As a certified Tridium enabled visualization system in the form of a buildings were brought up to the latest state of
partner, our solutions are also based on the central Niagara Supervisor control center. the art. Functional system components such

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