A Building Management System (BMS) centralizes and simplifies controlling, monitoring, and managing building services like heating, air conditioning, ventilation and more to achieve a safe, comfortable environment and energy savings. A BMS uses field devices, controllers and a central workstation to control equipment like air handlers, chillers and pumps. It provides features like user-friendly interfaces, alarm management, reporting, data logging, scheduling and remote connectivity. BMS benefits include improved indoor environment, maintenance savings, energy savings, consolidated facility control and improved management reporting.

1. Building
Management
System
An Overview to BMS

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What is BMS?
- A micro-processor based system which centralizes and simplifies…
controlling
monitoring
operation and…
management
…of heating, air-conditioning, ventilation & other building services to
achieve…
» safe and comfortable working environment
» energy saving & efficient operation
» at reduced time & cost

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BMS provides…
Comfortable & safe environment
for your building
by controlling…..
Air Handling Units
Fan Coil Units
Chillers
Pumps
Boilers
VFD’s
and many more…..

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Components of BMS
- Centralized WorkStation Computer
With powerful user-friendly software.
Used for everyday building operation.
- Field devices
Temperature, Humidity, Pressure sensors
Valves, Actuators
- DDC Controllers
Micro-processor based
Pre-configured / Freely programmable
Controls the HVAC equipment of the building

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LOG-IN
BMS Features….
• Man / Machine Interface
- interact with the connected
technical building equipment.
- user friendly
- for operators…
- engineers….
- and building managers
• System Security
- To prevent unauthorized use
- Password protection
- Operator specific access
- Operator log summary

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BMS Features….
• User-friendly data presentation
- co-ordination of the flow of
information through the system by
implementing customized graphics.
- floor plans of the building
- graphical representation of the
equipment.
• Alarm Management
- the presentation in the sequence of
importance and time of..
potentially dangerous situations
process value deviations
- guiding the operator to take
appropriate action through..
audible and visual indications
Email, SMS
- alarm summary
Time, date, priority and description

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BMS Features….
• Reporting
- present customized subsets of
data
- actual or historical state
- export as a word or excel
document or..
- to a printer.
• Data Logging
- The automatic gathering and
storage of data from the field
equipment for later analysis and
reporting
- Dynamically or historical
- Customized charts and graphs
- Tabular reports

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BMS Features….
• Time Scheduling
- time-based start/stop of the
equipment
- saves energy cost and efficient
operation
- effective for lighting, occupancy
control
- can be as daily, weekly, for holidays
or events
• Event recording
- automatic logging of…
operator activities and commands
processes related to connected
devices
workstations and printers.

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BMS Features….
• Remote connectivity
- provide remote access to
the system with full
functionality through..
local area network
dial-up
internet via web browser

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BMS Benefits….
• Improved indoor environment
quality
- Comfortable living and working
environment – domestic or
commercial
- Better temperature and humidity
control
- Good air quality
• Faster response to ..
- occupant needs
- end-user complaints
- trouble conditions

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BMS Benefits….
• Maintenance Savings.
- efficient control gives less wear and
strain of mechanical equipment.
- provides longer life
- runtime monitoring alerts timely
maintenance of equipment
- avoids expensive failures
• Energy Savings
- eliminates unnecessary system
operation.
- accurate energy usage information
- helps you to take steps to reduce
energy consumption like…
Optimum-Start
Night-Purging
Time-Scheduling

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BMS Benefits….
Consolidated facility control…
- One point centralized operation
- Simpler operation
- Reduces time and resources
• Reduced operator training
- on-screen instructions
- user-friendly graphic displays
- simpler operation programmed for
routine and repetitive operation

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BMS Benefits….
• Improved management reporting
- Provides valuable real-time data
- Creates reports, charts…
- Critical information immediately sent
to printers, emailed
- or sent via SMS
• Timely and effective control
- alerts your employees when your
facility is not operating correctly
- reduce troubleshooting and down
time.
- Remote access connectivity without
site visits.

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BMS Benefits….
• Performance Benchmarking
- Facilitates the overall system
performance measurement
- Comparison with set benchmarks

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Almost all applications in building automation are based on a
common functionality
I/O functions
(field devices)
Processing
functions
Management
functions
Operator
functions PagingHelpOperation
Set point rangeCalculation
y = f(x)
Closed loop ctrl.
Recording Supervision
Networking
Alarming
Operat.hours
0 0 0 9 7 8 h
Backup power
control
CountingCharacteristics
Measuring
J
Time programTechn. alarm
MaintenanceEngineering
Interlocks
Peak dem. limit
kWh
s
0 0 2 9 7 3 8
Safety alarm
Data analyses
Man. operation
Positioning
M
Reporting
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Signaling Switching
M
Documentation