Education

Highly flexible, easily extendable, ABB Cylon BACnet also allows for straightforward expansion or upgrades to the BMS that may be required in years to come, future-proofing today's BMS installations.

• Simplified integration with many third-party, non-HVAC systems, including lighting and energy management. ABB Cylon’s open platform solutions make integration with 3rd party systems and legacy systems easy, bringing all your building energy management systems together.
  
  
• Open protocol provides ease of upgrades and extension of building management systems.
  
  
• ABB Cylon BMS integrates seamlessly across IT networks, between buildings, and between remote sites, making it ideal for university and college campus building energy management.
  
  
• ABB Cylon BMS is flexible and scalable with integrated web support, building control and management information are easily accessed and adjusted from standard web browsers.
  
  

Future proof your investment

The ABB Cylon solution provides ease of upgrades and the extension of BMS through the gradual replacement of older, outdated, and ineffective BMS systems delivering a more flexible, energy-efficient, and cost-effective solution.  

Improve operations with Central Management

If a lecture is cancelled who turns the lights off and adjusts the HVAC in a room? Are rooms fully occupied to expected schedules? In the first instance, BMS should be scheduled in line with building occupancy and reviewed on a quarterly or semester basis to capture fluctuations in expected occupancy. The addition of occupancy sensors can ensure lighting is not left on unnecessarily and HVAC is not running needlessly in empty rooms.

Sensors enrich the efficacy of BMS and improve environmental factors | BMS connected sensors such as light, temperature, CO2, humidity, occupancy data work together to provide a consistent and comfortable learning environment for students.

By integrating the ABB Cylon web-enabled building management system, HVAC equipment can easily be adjusted according to weather conditions. Occupancy and setpoint values for classrooms, conference rooms, gymnasiums, etc. can be adjusted remotely with everyday software like Microsoft Outlook or with mobile devices in the hands of facility managers. 

• Operational efficiency: 24/7 web-enabled access to your BMS. View and modify information including trends, setpoints, schedules and more from any web-enabled device anywhere, any time.
• Simplify the management of a building portfolio across a wide geographical area.
• Reduce time spent on analysis across mixed platforms.
• Customizable user interface.

View and modify information including trends, setpoints, schedules, and more from any web-enabled device. Site dashboards are easily user-customizable, allowing equipment, schedules, trends, and more to be added as favorites for quick access.

Operational savings

• Reduce energy costs | ensure your building systems are operational only when needed versus expectation.
  
  
• Reduce operational costs | Resolve issues quickly with monitoring and control. Alerts in real-time enable building managers to monitor equipment performance, track anomalies of operation outside of setpoints and scheduling, and react to resolve any issues quickly, reducing downtime. 

Energy Monitoring, Analysis and Optimization

Reducing energy use and making real savings is impossible without good data on which to make management and investment decisions. Active Energy shows you how, where and when you are consuming energy. 

• Active Energy issues alarms via email and push notification services when it detects anomalies in expected consumption, putting you in control.
  
  
• Alarms can be viewed via the map-based interface, particularly useful for a quick overview of multiple buildings in multiple locations.
  
  
• View actual normalized energy usage against patterns of expected consumption and identify the drivers of your energy consumption to produce information you can act on that will help deliver energy savings.
  
  
• Active Energy allows you to compare meters, view data by time period, calculate energy costs and carbon emissions and more.
  
  
• Access regression analysis, overspend and consumption charts.
  
  
• Multi-building energy performance benchmarking. Active Energy's fully customized reporting feature allows you to generate instant or scheduled reports on energy consumption, costs, carbon emissions, performance versus targets, as well as tenant costs reports.

Extensible

There are no limits to the number of information points or geographical locations that can be connected to the system which makes it an ideal central energy monitoring and management tool for multisite and multi-building organizations.

• Monitor temperature, humidity and air quality ensuring a comfortable environment whether it is in lecture theatres or laboratories.
  
  
• Ensure correct lux levels are in operation based on the number of occupants and the function of the space.
  
  
• Provide security and safety in open spaces when it gets dark.
  
  
• Secure access to buildings, providing safety and assurance to occupants and protecting your assets.

ABB Cylon® Active Energy  – cloud-based energy management

• Increase a building’s energy efficiency.
• Reduce operational costs and carbon footprint.
• Reduce a buildings CO2 footprint.
• Monitor performance, target improvements, and measure project returns.
• Generate energy trends, charts, and reports securely from the cloud.
• Rationalize energy data based on historical weather patterns, user access, conservation measures, and more.
• Identify key problem spots in energy usage, rectify, and show true ROI.
• Simplify building operations | Integration and data collection with 3^rd party systems enables centralized energy management overview of a range of diverse systems.