Building Systems Integration and its benefits

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Definition of Systems Integration

'This can be viewed as the convergence of different communications technologies into a common technology platform (or Protocol) that allows disparate control systems to interoperate as one common control system.' Syntegra Consulting Ltd

Ultimately, ‘Systems Integration’ is technology driven. This can be viewed as the convergence of different communications technologies into a common technology (or Protocol) that allows what were different control systems to operate as one common control system. This is technical integration.


Systems Integration market trend

The multitude of technologies associated with Intelligent Building's have been widely known for several years and include, for example, the European Installation Bus (EIB), LonWorks, BacNet and ModBus protocols, which are becoming the mainstream building services communication protocol for both the building and industrial controls sectors. More recently some solutions from the information technology sector based on Internet/Intranet technologies, utilising TCP/IP protocols are beginning to emerge within the building services arena.

Syntegra Consulting Ltd firmly believe that as these protocols become standardised, development efforts will move towards iBMS systems integration engineering, Intelligent Building Applications (IBA), the convergence of products(multi-functional devices) and building services-to-IT convergence.

Systems integration enables a flexible platform to harness the latest technologies and a building’s infrastructure to produce, for example, more energy efficient, productive and environmental solutions, which in turn is only limited by the imagination.

The potential benefits of Systems Integration
As well as the enhancement of self-automated ‘cause and effect scenarios’ the benefits that systems integration can enable are as follows:

· Capability to control more effectively the built environment.

· Enhanced occupant productivity/recovery levels.

· Enhanced Energy Efficiency Management/Metering.

· Increased energy-savings.

· Enhanced Building Services operation and FM procedures.

· Increased opportunity to pre-commission and test plant off-site.

· Reduction in the onsite commissioning programme.

· Increased accessibility and design flexibility of the building systems monitoring.

· Minimisation of unplanned system downtime and increase in corporate resilience.

· Reduction in the level of supply-chain management, procurement and associated cost.

· Increased Interoperability of sub-systems through the utilisation of Open Database Connectivity

· Increased ease of scalability.

· Provides a platform for an upper layer of ’Intelligent Building Applications’.