IMCOM LONWORKS Building Automation Systems Implementation Strategy

Abstract

Army Installations often expand their use of digital control systems for heating, ventilating, and air conditioning and other mechanical and electrical building systems on a building-by-building basis. The control systems are installed under separate contracts by different contractors resulting in intra-system incompatibilities. The implementation of multi-vendor Open Building Automation Systems (BASs) is meant to overcome such incompatibilities; however BASs can present their own technical and administrative (including contractual) challenges. This interim report defines a methodology for the development and execution of a basewide Open BAS implementation plan based on LONWORKs technology and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) communications standard 709.1 where the BAS consists of a basewide Utility Monitoring and Control System (UMCS) that is interoperable with multi-vendor LONWORKs direct digital control (DDC) systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA478402

Entities

People

  • David M. Schwenk
  • Joseph Bush
  • Lucie M. Hughes
  • Stephen Briggs
  • Will White

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Automation
  • Communications Protocols
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Electronic Mail
  • Electronic Messaging
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Local Area Networks
  • Network Protocols
  • Operating Systems
  • Standards
  • User Interface

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  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.