Integrate all your building automation components into a single BMS

Building Automation (BA) can potentially minimize your facility operating costs, reduce your carbon-footprint, strengthen building security, and even improve the quality and consistency of your products if they are affected by environmental conditions such as humidity, temperature, pressure, or air quality. Your ability to fully leverage your Building Automation solution depends on how well you can integrate the different BA components into a common Building Management System.   The challenge: how do you do this when BA components from different vendors often use different protocols to share data?

Fortunately, the answer is simple: use OPC. As the world’s most popular method of establishing open connectivity between proprietary control automation systems – OPC is perfectly suited to act as the ‘glue’ between BA components (regardless of the vendor they are from). Different OPC servers can facilitate communications between BA components and other applications as well as devices not traditionally from the BA space such as accounting systems, historians, and DCSs. 

An example of such an OPC Server is the MatrikonOPC Universal Building Automation Server that supports five of the most common Building Automation protocols out of the box – making it possible for you to communicate freely between any OPC enabled application and any BA device supporting protocols like BacNet, LonWorks, Johnson Controls, and others.

Click here to learn more about the MatrikonOPC Universal Building Automation Server!