Building Management Systems

During the normal course of business, knowing how your building is operating or performing is always important. Tracking and controlling your mechanical and electrical systems, your utilities, your lighting, your security systems, your discharge of wastes and other building process is possible. This data can also be stored and accessed at any time for reporting to agencies, troubleshooting, efficiency calculations, verifying utility costs and any other data analysis you wish.

If you can answer any of the questions below with a YES, then a Building Management System can help:

• Do you need to know or control what the temperature and / or humidity is within a room?
• Do you need to know what the pressure difference is between a room and the hallway?
• Do you need to know if someone is residing within a room to help control your lights?
• Do you need to know what the flow rate is for water or other liquids that are being used within a process or room?
• Do you need to know how many Kilowatts of electricity are being used throughout your plant?
• Do you need to know what quality or quantity of effluent, smoke or gasses are being discharged from your building?
• Do you need to be alerted when a room’s, warehouse’s or any area’s environment is out of specification?
• Do you need to analyze your systems to decrease costs associated with operations?
• Do you need to report any information to a regulator agency on a continuous basis or an interval, to comply with their laws or conditions?
• Do you wish to analyze your machines overall equipment efficiency?
• Do you want to be able to track how much production is being performed by a machine, an area, a group of employees or other metric?

Grey Wolf Automation LLC has a long history of creating Building Management Systems, either by adding to your existing systems, replacing some systems, or by adding a layer over your existing system to monitor what they are controlling.

In most cases, today’s existing systems have the ability to interface with the following operator interfaces to be able to scale your building management system as needed. If it is a small system to monitor and / or control only a few items, a larger system to monitor / control a whole building or a huge system to monitor / control multiple locations with the ability to access each remotely, Grey Wolf Automation LLC will use the below manufacturers to create the system you want.

• Allen Bradley Panelview or FactoryTalk View ME
• Red Lion FlexEdge or Graphite
• Allen Bradley FactoryTalk View SE
• Aveva Wonderware System Platform
• Inductive Automation Ignition
• Trihedral VTScada
• And Many Many MORE!

Grey Wolf Automation LLC can help you review what areas within your building, plant or site could benefit from adding a Building Management System. Your system can start small and grow over time as your needs increase, funding becomes available or the value to your management becomes more apparent.

Key advantages to using Grey Wolf Automation LLC for your Building Management System Projects include:

• Thirty Years Experience in the Control Systems Field
• Comprehensive Knowledge of the What Sub-Systems Typically are Connected to a Building Management System
• Extensive Experience on How Systems Can Be Controlled and / or Monitored
• Understanding of What Options Exist for Reporting, Alarming and Remote Access to the Information
• Seasoned Familiarity with Packaged Plant System and How to Provide This Information in a Clear, Concise and Understandable Format