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Customer Success Story: Museum of Krapina Neanderthals
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
- Networks & Connectivity - Ethernet
Applicable Industries
- Education
Applicable Functions
- Facility Management
Use Cases
- Building Automation & Control
- Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
The Museum of Krapina Neanderthals, located in northern Croatia, required a solution to integrate and automate its building management systems, security systems, and multimedia systems. The museum, which is technologically oriented and extraordinarily equipped for multimedia presentations, needed a system that could handle data acquisition and aggregation, analysis and alarming, visualization, and real-time status of installations and components. The challenge was to harmoniously integrate, coordinate, and automate these diverse subsystems, which included computers, projectors, MPEG players, audio, video and scenting equipment, electrical branch circuits and lighting, metal curtains, HVAC, Siemens fire system, and Honeywell intrusion system.
About The Customer
The Museum of Krapina Neanderthals is located in a glen between two small hills near the modern city of Krapina, in northern Croatia. The museum represents the spectacular Krapina site, where a Neanderthal village was discovered in 1899 by Dragutin Gorjanovic. The archeological site, one of the richest and most heterogeneous in the world, had over eight hundred fossil remains of 75 Neanderthals and their tools and weapons. Opened in February 2010, visitors to the museum’s 1,200 square meter exhibition space experience a simulation of the way of life in a Neanderthal cave 130 thousand years ago. Through touch screens, video-walls and numerous audio, visual and scent installations, visitors enjoy a highly interactive museum experience. The Museum of Krapina Neanderthals is technologically oriented and extraordinarily equipped for multimedia presentations enabling an engaging visitor experience.
The Solution
ICONICS and ECCOS inženjering developed a unique solution for visualization and control of the Museum of Krapina Neanderthals. The ICONICS GENESIS32™ HMI/ SCADA suite was deployed to connect and automate the museum’s building management systems, security systems, and multimedia systems. The system was enabled with data acquisition and aggregation, analysis and alarming, visualization, and real-time status of installations and components. All of these were accessible through a single personal computer with a simplified and reliable graphical interface. At the core of the system, ICONICS GENESIS32, using Matrikon’s OPC server and a Schneider Electric M340 PLC, integrates to establish full supervision and control over all the electronic and electrical systems. The vast majority of communication is based on the local Ethernet network, while the PLC is connected with security and BMS systems through digital/analog inputs and outputs.
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