Reduce energy costs by optimizing building performance
Reduce energy costs by optimizing building performance
Building automation can help monitor and optimize building performance. As the complexity in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems increases, the probability of design and operating errors increases as well. That leads to avoidable costs and unnecessary CO2 emissions.
Although building automation systems provide most of the data needed to identify operating deficiencies, the amount of data can be overwhelming. An effective analysis requires specific software and hardware, as well as the right technical expertise.
TÜV SÜD’s proprietary Data Box can be easily connected to the Building Management System. It collects information continuously from sensors, actuators, and operating states – up to 20,000 data points. The Data Box supports multiple communication protocols such as BACnet, Modbus, M-BUS and KNX.
The data collected is securely transmitted to our platform and evaluated by TÜV SÜD experts. The results are visualized live in a performance dashboard where present states and performance changes can be monitored. TÜV SÜD experts can help you make sense of the data and help optimize your current operations.
Building owners and operators gain detailed knowledge about their building automation system’s performance against target specifications. Technical optimization will result in:
TÜV SÜD Technical Monitoring supports acceptance during the commissioning phase and performance optimization during the operating and maintenance phases. The data also supports warranty claims that can help you to save money on repairs. Unpredictable costs are often caused by wrong planning, improper implementation, or incorrect operation.
To help you understand more about the importance of technical monitoring for buildings, we invite you to review the following frequently asked questions (FAQ). We hope it will help you make strategic decisions about the health of your facilities going forward.
Technical monitoring is the testing of technical parameters in building equipment through a continuous target/actual comparison to expose malfunctions and energy inefficiency.
There are a wide variety of malfunctions detected but some examples include:
The results of the Technical Monitoring show which components of the HVAC, water, or electric systems are not functioning properly and/or are not optimally coordinated with each other. This enables you to immediately recognize where action is needed to reduce energy, operating and maintenance costs, and prevent avoidable CO2 emissions.
For all buildings with a building automation system that controls and regulates supply systems such as heating, ventilation, cooling, etc. Optimally, an open and standardized communication protocol is used.
Functional descriptions, operating instructions, requirement specifications, etc. serve as a basis. In the case of incomplete documentation, our experts check according to the generally recognized rules of technology.
Current values such as temperature, valve positions, operating states, etc. are displayed in the building management system. Technical Monitoring evaluates these values in the form of coherent rules and shows how well they correspond to the target specifications.
Clients typically will receive access to the dashboard within two weeks. We recommend Technical Monitoring for at least 12 months in order to assess the influences of the seasons on the building or on the supply systems.
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