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Unit1 - A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

A Building Management System (BMS) automates and controls the mechanical and electrical services in a building to maintain comfortable conditions. The BMS is a standalone computer system connected to sensors and equipment throughout the building. It uses input from sensors to determine the necessary level of control for equipment based on pre-programmed requirements. This allows the BMS to precisely control the building's environment and respond to equipment failures or inability to meet specifications. It also turns plant equipment on and off according to programmed occupancy times for different areas.

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Unit1 - A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

A Building Management System (BMS) automates and controls the mechanical and electrical services in a building to maintain comfortable conditions. The BMS is a standalone computer system connected to sensors and equipment throughout the building. It uses input from sensors to determine the necessary level of control for equipment based on pre-programmed requirements. This allows the BMS to precisely control the building's environment and respond to equipment failures or inability to meet specifications. It also turns plant equipment on and off according to programmed occupancy times for different areas.

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A BUILDING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - (BMS)

THE GENERAL CONCEPT

Why do we need a Building Management System?


All Buildings have some form of mechanical and electrical services in order to provide the facilities necessary for
maintaining a comfortable working environment. These services have to be controlled by some means to ensure, for
example, that there is adequate cooling for comfort conditions wherever, irrespective of the number of occupants or
individual preferences.
Basic controls take the form of manual switching, time clocks or temperature switches that provide the on and off
signals for enabling pumps, fans or valves etc. The purpose of a Building Management System (BMS) is to automate
and take control of these operations in the most efficient way possible for the occupiers/business, within the constraints
of the installed plant.

What is a Building Management System and how does it work?


The BMS is a “stand alone” computer system that can calculate the pre-set requirements of the building and control the
connected plant to meet those needs. Its inputs, such as temperature sensors and outputs, such as on/off signals are
connected into outstations around the building. Programs within these outstations use this information to decide the
necessary level of applied control. The outstations are linked together and information can be passed from one to
another. In addition a modem is also connected to the system to allow remote access.
The level of control via the BMS is dependent upon the information received from its sensors and the way in which its
programs tell it to respond to that information. As well as offering a precise degree of control to its environment, it can
be made to alarm on conditions that can’t meet specification or warn of individual items of plant failure. Occupancy
times for different areas are programmed into the Building Management System such that the plant is brought on and
off to meet the occupier requirements. These times are often under optimum start control. This means that the HVAC
plant is enabled, at a varying pre- determined time, to ensure that the air-conditioned space is at the set desired
temperature for the start of the day. The Building Management System therefore, based on the outside air temperature
the space temperature and the building structure, determines the plant start time

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