Building Automation

Centralising Control to Save Energy and Improve Wellbeing

Building automation is the automatic centralised control of a building’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning, lighting and other systems through a building management system or building automation system (BAS). Wikipedia

Problems & Solutions

For building owners operations represent over 70% of the total cost of a building over its lifespan. By 2025, buildings will be the #1 consumer of energy. Up to 50% of energy and water in buildings is wasted. If we could focus on increasing building efficiency we would see a different picture:
  • Energy usage reduced by up to 40%
  • Maintenance costs down by 10-30%
  • Employee productivity increased by up to 18%
The use of technology to solve these problems has been very slow to evolve. Now, leveraging over 20 years of experience in hardware and software, Go-IoT have designed a product range capable of creating an eco-system that addresses the needs of building owners, building management system integrators and buildings operations for both new and existing developments. This eco-system can automatically monitor doors, rooms, hallways, passageways, plant rooms, elevator/lifts, garages etc for temperature, humidity, CO2, air quality (AQI, VOC, etc.), occupancy, light level, open/closed door/windows, etc. It can process the data according to set rules or analyse trend data so that energy is conserved, wellfare is maintained, security is upheld, maintenance is scheduled or called upon on demand, warnings/alarms are sent/triggered. Furthermore for building owners with multiple sites, this can be amassed and controlled from a central operations point anywhere in the world. There really are no limits to the possibilities!

Go-IoT BACnet Sensor to Cloud – Cloud to Actuator

Industry Challenges

The slow evolution of building automation systems without standardisation has led to challenges. Today multiple incompatible communication protocols are used for Building Automation, including Modbus, M-Bus, LoRaWAN, Thread, BACnet etc. Configuration is therefore costly and time-consuming. Furthermore communicating data from the sensor and actuator to the Cloud has security risks and lacks standardisation.

Current Solutions

  • Multiple gateways to map different communication protocols back and forth.
  • Proprietary solutions, locking customers in with the solution vendor.
  • Virtual Private Network (VPN) to solve cloud security.
  • In-building protocol differs from cloud-protocol, resulting in long-winded complex configuration work.
  • Cloud communication only subsets in-building BACnet communication. An example is MQTT.

Our Solutions

  • Non-BACnet protocols gatewayed to BACnet in one device by software. After that all devices are seen as BACnet-devices. Any vendor that supports BACnet, is also 100% supported by the solution.
  • Open non-proprietary communication from sensor/actuator to/from Cloud by the widely accepted BACnet plus BACnet/WS standard.
  • Automated configuration using templates and sensor-criteria. Saves time consuming configuration, cost and maintenance.
  • Using BACnet/WS for Cloud communication is secure and homogenous with the in-building BACnet communication.
  • Strong Cloud security with encryption and OAuth 2.0 authentication, equivalent or better than VPN.
  • Scalable from few sensors/actuators in-building to thousands by the Edge Server, using small footprint hardware and database to powerful multi-core servers running world leader IBM Informix IoT database.
  • BACnet/WS enables moving software components from the Cloud to Edge Server and vice versa.
  • Widely used, in-building, BACnet enabled software systems as SCADA, Energy Management, etc. can be installed in the Cloud. Auto-configured Shadow-BACnet-Objects in BACnet-Cloud, that shadow, appear as real-time physical BACnet-Objects imitating the ones in the buildings.
  • BACnet-Cloud is one huge virtual BACnet-network representing all its connected BACnet Buildings.
    This cloud-enables software development/configuration like SCADA, Node-Red, etc.
  • IBM Informix time-series enable large, fast, but small footprint BACnet trend-log objects. Derivative trend-logs calculated from other trend-logs are easy to configure.

Hardware (DINGO):

Hardware (WISKA):

  • Standard and custom sensing options
  • wMBUS, LORA, Thread options
  • Battery size/life options

Hardware:

  • DINGO Backbone (RPi based)
  • DINGO Plug-in 3G/4G
  • DINGO Pi-HAT with RTC and UPS (option)
  • Raspberry Pi 4B+ 2/4GB
  • Intel Ubuntu
    • e.g. Intel Nuc or x86

Hardware:

  • Recommended multi-core Intel x86 platform running Ubuntu Server.
  • Any other Linux Debian based platform capable running IBM Informix Server.

Software (DINGO-Stack):

  • BACnet Virtualisation
  • Auto-Configuration
  • Peripheral API
  • MBUS Scanner
  • Plug-ins for:
    • 1-Wire, Modbus, M-Bus, wM-Bus, Powerline, LoRaWAN, 3G/4G/LTE, Thread, Conectric, Dali and more…

Software (DINGO-stack):

  • BACnet/IP (Server) & Client
  • BACnet/WS
  • Trend-Log (TL) Uploader
    • FTP
    • MS-Azure
    • IBM Watson
  • Trend-Log maker
  • Service Manager
  • Network Manager
  • BACnet/WS Test Client

Software (Go-IoT Cloud):

  • BACnet-Cloud – Fastest time-series engine, wrapped in BACnet/WS
  • DINGO-Manager for remote management of your installations and buildings

Software other:

Software other:

Software other:

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The Go-IoT DINGO Multi-Protocol Multi-Interface Building Controller / Gateway provides the ultimate backwards compatibility, future-proof flexibility and highest density in the Industry today. Click here for more on the range.

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The Go-IoT WISKA Multi-Protocol Multi-Interface sensor family support Temperature and Humidity as standard with options for CO2, Light, Movement, Sound, AQI/VOC and more. . Click here for the latest on the range.

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