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Customer Success Story: University of Bristol
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries
- Education
Applicable Functions
- Facility Management
Use Cases
- Building Automation & Control
- Building Energy Management
- Energy Management System
Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
The University of Bristol (UoB) is a top-ranking university in the UK with a vast estate comprising over 600 hectares of land and more than 370 buildings. The buildings range in age from the late 17th century to the 21st century. Given the large number of buildings, estate management is crucial. A major requirement of the project was to integrate the buildings together to provide a secure, future-proof centralized building management solution. The UoB was looking for a modern, future-proof solution platform that would allow them to continue to build new capabilities as new equipment and buildings were needed and connected to the Secure Data network (SDN). The University needed a company with reliable software solutions that could meet several objectives, including providing all departments of the University with accommodations of quality and functionality, ensuring the most efficient use of all built space, working to reduce the University’s carbon emissions, and enabling Building Management System (BMS), Fire Monitoring, Critical Alarms, Sustainability Monitoring, etc.
About The Customer
The University of Bristol (UoB) is one of the top-ranking universities in the UK. It has 25 academic schools arranged across six different facilities. The University owns over 600 hectares of land in and around Bristol and makes use of over 370 buildings. The buildings range in age from the late 17th century to the 21st century. With such a large number of buildings, estate management is very important. The University was looking for a modern, future-proof solution platform that would allow them to continue to build new capabilities as new equipment and buildings were needed and connected to the Secure Data network (SDN). The University needed a company with reliable software solutions that could meet several objectives, including providing all departments of the University with accommodations of quality and functionality, ensuring the most efficient use of all built space, working to reduce the University’s carbon emissions, and enabling Building Management System (BMS), Fire Monitoring, Critical Alarms, Sustainability Monitoring, etc.
The Solution
The University of Bristol selected Cougar Automation Ltd., a Microsoft Certified Partner and winner of numerous customer experience awards, who in conjunction with ICONICS, provided a GENESIS64 based visualization solution. Together with a calendar scheduler to integrate and manage the Trend IQ2 and IQ3 BACnet controllers across the facilities, they received a single consistent head-end visualisation for all BMS functions allowing the University to reduce training and maintenance costs, another key driver of the SDN project. The comprehensive alarms management capabilities in GENESIS64 also allowed critical BMS alarms to be routed to the Estates Security Office during non-working hours, by raising and lowering their priorities automatically, ensuring that critical facilities are continuously monitored 24 hours a day. In addition to the standard SCADA capability that GENESIS64 was able to provide, the Cougar project team also utilised ICONICS BizViz™ integration capabilities with great success.
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