Intelligent Building
Systems (IBS)
INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS
An Intelligent Building is one that provides a
productive and cost-effective environment
through optimization of its four basic elements:
Structure Systems
Services Management
Computer Based Systems In The Intelligent
Building
• Systems that support the operation of the
building
• Systems that support the operations of the
tenant
Systems That Support The Operation Of
The Building
• Integrated building security system
• Elevator control system
• Building energy management / automation system
• Electrical distribution control system
• Fire, detection, containment, alarm and
communication system
• Audiovisual
Systems That Support The Operations Of
The Tenant
• Audiovisual
• Telecommunications systems ( telephone, office
automation/data systems, teleconferencing)
• Security system (add-on to the base building
system or separate system)
• Energy management/Automation system (add-
on to the base building system and/ or separate
system)
FIRE DETECTION,
CONTAINMENT, ALARM &
COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
Components
• Fire and Smoke Detection Sensors
• Fire Fighters’ Communication Systems
• Fire Annunciation Systems
• Fire Fighters’ Panel
Functions
• Fire & Smoke Detection and Alarm
Annunciation
• Fire & Smoke Containment
• Override Control of Door Access &
Egress
• Override Control of Elevator Control
System
THE INTEGRATED
SECURITY SYSTEM
Functions
• Alarm Monitoring & Annunciation
• Access Control & Monitoring
• Closed Circuit Television
• Audio Surveillance, Paging, Emergency
• Phones, Intercom & Radio Facilities
• Guard Tour Management
• Activity Archiving, Reporting & Audit
Trails
Additional Functions:
• Parking Control & Revenue
Management
• Elevator Supervisory Control &
Surveillance
• High Performance Surveillance Systems
THE BUILDING ENERGY
MANAGEMENT/AUTOMATION
SYSTEM
Systems
• Monitoring and/or control
• Air Distribution Systems
• Chilled and Condenser Water Systems
• Standby and Emergency Generators
• Fuel Oil Systems
• Lighting
• Domestic Water, Sump Pumps, Sewage Systems,
etc.
• Other MEP Systems
Functions
• Optimization, Control & Reporting of Energy
Use
• Indoor Air Quality Monitoring and Control
• Maintenance Management v & Inventory
Control
• Tenant Billings
• Monitoring of other Intelligent Building
Systems
• Operations Monitoring and/or control Data
Storage, Analysis & Reporting
WHY INTERFACE AND
INTEGRATE IBS?
Advantages - 1
• Information available at one system can be used to
affect the actions of another system to the benefit of the
building and its occupants.
• A common Operator Interface (This applies only to
software interfaces)
• Saves and reduces control room space.
• The activities of separate systems can be monitored
from a single location and there is a single point for
receiving alarms.
Advantages - 2
• Can reduce manpower requirements OR can allow
manpower to perform additional tasks, such as
increased maintenance of equipment, which have cost
benefits.
• May have lower capital costs depending on the
approach adopted toward the integration.
• Marketability.
• Flexibility - A standard protocol will enable a wide
range of vendors to compete for expansions and
replacement of components.
IBS RECENT ADVANCES -1
There are several advances in IBS that are
not yet common but which have been
successfully implemented
IBS RECENT ADVANCES -2
• A Common Operator Interface serving all IBS.
• Interface between the Security System and the
Building Energy Management-Automation
System to initiate HVAC and Lighting control
on the basis of a person’s entry into and
movements within the facility.
IBS RECENT ADVANCES -3
• Interface between the Security System and the
Telephone System to route calls to the
appropriate location based on a person’s
movements within the facility.
IBS RECENT ADVANCES -4
• Interface between the Building Energy
Management/Automation System and the Office
Automation System to enable building occupants to
adjust the environmental conditions within their area
from their desktop computer systems.
• An interface between the Security System and the
Accounting Systems to enable an occupant using a
“smart access card” to undertake a wide variety of
tasks such as copying, sending faxes, obtaining meals in
the cafeteria, etc. and to have the expenses allocated to
the appropriate accounts.
IBS RECENT ADVANCES -5
• The use of Global Positioning Systems to
monitor the location of personnel both inside
and outside the facility.
• An interface between the CCTV system and the
Office Automation System to enable, for
example, a visitor at the lobby security desk to
be observed on any desktop computer within
the facility.
• An interface between the Building Energy
Management/Automation System and the Valet
car parking system.
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