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Oceanium at Diergaarde Blijdorp Zoo
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
- Networks & Connectivity - Network Management & Analysis Software
Applicable Industries
- Buildings
Applicable Functions
- Facility Management
Use Cases
- Building Automation & Control
- Water Utility Management
Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
The Oceanium at Diergaarde Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam, Netherlands, houses a variety of marine life, including sharks, tropical fish, corals, king penguins, sea lions, and polar bears. To maintain a safe and healthy environment for these animals, the Oceanium's water is regularly refreshed. This process requires large filter installations that are controlled by multiple Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). The PLCs ensure that the water is pumped exactly where it needs to be and that the filter systems function flawlessly. However, the Oceanium's older PLCs had reached end-of-life and needed to be replaced. Along with the new PLCs, the Oceanium also recognized the need for a new Human-Machine Interface/Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (HMI/SCADA) installation to visualize the data from these connected systems.
About The Customer
The Oceanium is a part of the Diergaarde Blijdorp Zoo located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It is a 'water world' that houses a variety of marine life, including a whale exposition, a public laboratory, a coral reef, a kelp forest, a bird rock, and, what many visitors consider the most impressive, enormous sharks. The Oceanium's water consists entirely of clean sea water, which is regularly refreshed for the inhabitants of its exhibits. Every month, nearly five percent of the Oceanium's water is refreshed so that the sharks, tropical fish, corals, king penguins, sea lions, and polar bears can safely swim around. The Oceanium uses large filter installations to change the water in such installations in order to keep them habitable for the animals.
The Solution
The Oceanium, in collaboration with system integrator Koning & Hartman, selected ICONICS GENESIS64™ HMI/SCADA and building automation software suite and Mitsubishi IQ-F series PLCs to replace the older systems. The new PLCs help ensure that the filter systems within the Oceanium run flawlessly. The ICONICS GENESIS64 software suite helps monitor and manage the Oceanium's multiple connected operations. It provides real-time insight into the status of all animal enclosures within the Oceanium, generates alarms if something goes wrong in one of the accommodations, and can provide a trend overview of, for example, the water level of the shark tank over the past year. The system also allows employees to view the current status of the processes in the Oceanium via their smartphones.
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