The drive for more efficient buildings has pushed the area of building and facility management to the fore. However traditional Building Management Systems (BMS) and facility management approaches have been fixed location solutions catering for plant and environmental control. Modern buildings require much more than that. Building management requires the ability to integrate IP CCTV, Door Access, Lift Control, Telephony services, lighting and heating systems and all the plant behind that to give a complete picture of the health of the building. In addition the ability to monitor all this through a single wiring system is essential to control installation costs and provide for expansion as new services are added.

The only system that can provide that level of flexibility and expandability is Twisted Pair Cat5e/cat6 with it hub and spoke topology. The only transport mechanism the can flexibly use such a wiring system is TCP/IP. By IP enabling all the systems in a building and connecting them to an intelligent IP based BMS it is possible to configure an overarching control system that can provide the levels of granular control, logging and monitoring that modern efficient buildings require.

But building such a system requires the integration of a myriad of different standalone systems and no one supplies an off the shelf solution. We in Paracas draw on our extensive engineering background to develop interfaces that allow all the elements connect to the IP network and we coordinate the development and configuration of the necessary BMS Graphical Interface to allow all this to the monitored and maintained from anywhere on the network. This allows the Faculties Manager to monitor the health of the building from anywhere on site, and by combining this with our IP networking and security expertise, this ability can be extended to offsite through secure remote connections.

We have experience of installing such systems in many building from office blocks to hospitals to manufacturing facilities, and by leveraging the cost savings of combining the wiring costs with those of regular IT requirements we have delivered considerable costs savings to our customers.