Integrated Building Automation Solutions for Investors

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Capitalising on megatrends in the long term – With Beckhoff Building Automation.

Automation, demographic development, urbani-sation, digitisation: how can investors capitalise on current global megatrends to generate a strong return on investment? Real-estate assets must be able to meet all economic and sustain-ability criteria. Future requirements play a major role in this, so as an investor, how do you ensure the profi tability of your real-estate for tomorrow and the years after, regardless of whether you are in the midst of a new build or renovation? Beckhoff provides the answer with its building automation solutions, which are exceptionally cost-effective.

Economical in construction and operation –PC-based Building Automation.

Beckhoff solves building automation challenges differently: all building functions and building systems are integrated on one platform by leveraging PC-based control. This creates positive impacts in a number of ways at the same time: comfort is enhanced, while the energy-savings potential is fully exploited with the result that investments in building automation pay off in just a few years. Owing to the modularity of the sys-tem, planning changes can be easily implemen-ted and will not delay the building process. The benefi ts can be seen immediately in a number of ways once the building is operational. The use of

Build an economical and sustainable foundation for your real-estate investment.

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standard components with long-term availability and the ability to exchange these effortlessly offers you independence and protects your initial investment. Moreover, central monitoring during building operation facilitates preventive main-tenance and continuing optimisation of consump-tion and operating costs.

A single control platform for all building systems reduces operating costs and increases quality.

The PC-based control platform allows integrated automation of all building systems in residential buildings, functional buildings and infrastructures – from single-room control to window control to shading, lighting, HVAC MCI, smoke and heat re-moval systems, access control, energy monitoring and process visualisation. This means operating costs are reduced, user comfort is enhanced and

process quality is increased. At the bottom line, this results in optimised comfort and effi ciency as well as cost-conscious operation, signifi cantly increasing the value of your real-estate.

Invest today in a way that means your real-estate still pays for itself in the future.

Cast a glance to the future: Beckhoff Building Auto-mation ensures that the highest energy effi ciency classes are satisfi ed without diffi culty. As an inves-tor this means that buildings are “ISO 50001-ready” – and thus exempt from energy levies. The central, software-based control system also allows inte-gration into smart grid solutions, as well as connectivity to cloud and IoT systems. Simply put, PC-based building automation from Beckhoff can create a sustainable technological basis for future alternative operating models.

Building Automation from Beckhoff at a glance:

Increased user comfort and quality of the property

Increased savings potential through reduced investment costs

Increased energy effi ciency Fulfi lment of sustainability parameters Reduced operating costs Flexible changes in property usage

optimises saleability Sustained and increased value of

real-estate High level of investment protection

through use of standard components

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Tower 185, Frankfurt a. M., Germany

Tower 185 in Frankfurt‘s banking district is one of the four tallest skyscrapers in Germany, extending over 50 floors with floor space of approximately 100,000 m². Full HVAC manage-ment and room automation are implemented with a Beckhoff automation platform and operated directly by means of a shared building management system. This allows flexible room usage, definition of different utilisation scenarios, simplified controlling and benchmarking, as well as maintenance management for all building systems. The building was awarded LEED Gold certification as a “Green Building” in recognition of its energy efficiency. The control architecture for processing the 60,000 data points is based on 170 CX9010 Embedded PCs, 500 CX9001 devices, as well as 80 C6925 Industrial PCs.

Park Hotel Vitznau, Switzerland

The Park Hotel Vitznau, a luxury 5-star hotel, combines historical ambience with all the latest comforts for its guests. The fact that the complex building operation can be organised so efficiently and luxuriously is largely a benefit of the holistic PC- and BACnet-based building automation solution from Beckhoff, which integrates about 10,000 data points.

Ultimately what counts is the property:Beckhoff references.

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Ultimately what counts is the property:Beckhoff references.

The global solution: Building Automation from Beckhoff

Offi ce and residential buildings, hotels and mu-seums, shopping centres and industrial building complexes, rail stations and theatres all around the globe use holistic and scalable building automation solutions from Beckhoff:

EZB (European Central Bank), Frankfurt a. M., Germany

Microsoft Deutschland GmbH, Cologne, Germany

Fortis Bank, Hasselt, Belgium Westpac Headquarters, Sydney, Australia WesBank, Johannesburg, South Africa Ferry Porsche Congress Centre,

Zell am See, Austria Esprit arena, Düsseldorf, Germany Therme Wien, Austria Metro M2, Lausanne, Switzerland

Nordtangente Basel, Switzerland

The 3.2 km long, four-lane urban motorway, which runs mainly underground and connects Switzerland with France and Germany, cost about 1.2 billion euros. Some 124 million euros alone were invested in the operating and safety systems, which are automated with Beckhoff technology. The PC platform reliably controls a total of 40,000 data points.

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Dolder Grand Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland

The historic Dolder Grand, which was reopened in 2008 following renovation by British architect Norman Foster, is a luxury hotel. The integral building automation solution comprises all buil-ding systems from HVAC management to lighting to media control, with no less than 100,000 data points being controlled.

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Functional modification

Scalable performance

Easily implemented with TwinCAT BA engineering software

Modularly scalable through simple exchange of computing devices, e.g. against an Embedded PC equipped with latest processor generation

Guarantee of success – Easy adaption to changed usage through fl exible modifi cations.

Future-proofi ng your investment – With an automation system that adapts. Investors think long term; however, not all parameters of an investment are constants. For example, usage of a property can change in the medium or long term, and this can have conse-quences. The functions of individual rooms or fl oors may change, while additional functions for complete buildings or individual rooms must be taken into account. This is a critical and cost-sen-sitive topic. If the building‘s automation system is not designed for maximised fl exibility from the outset, individual modifi cations can have a serious impact on the bottom line. Your investment is protected in the long term with Building Automa-tion from Beckhoff. The single control platform for all building systems based on open IT standards allows modifi cations to be carried out with compa-ratively little effort.

Usage is changing. But the multi-touch panel remains a constant.

Beckhoff multi-touch operating panels not only impress as an elegant front-end for building au-tomation, owing to its high-quality materials and visual appearance, rather PC-based control also allows functional changes to be implemented on the software side– the panels remain, but adapt to any changing usage requirements.

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Functional expansion

Scalable performance

fl exible expansion through simply adding the corresponding I/O terminals

Beckhoff at a glance:

As a specialist for PC-based control systems, Beckhoff is renowned for universal automation solutions that are used in industrial, energy management and building automation appli-cations worldwide, and help users maximise savings potentials, even exceeding the highest energy effi ciency standards.

Facts and fi gures: Owner-managed, medium-sized company Corporate headquarters: Verl, Germany Innovation leader in PC-based control Sales 2014: 510 Mio. Euro More than 2,900 employees worldwide 34 subsidiary companies Represented in more than

75 countries worldwide

Guarantee of success – Easy adaption to changed usage through fl exible modifi cations.

Cloud communication, ERP integration, remote maintenance – your investment is “IoT-ready”.

PC-based control is future-proofi ng for buil-dings. The technological foundation for future cloud-based operating models is in place, while integration of ERP systems and browser-based remote control are already fi eld-proven. Beckhoff also ensures the necessary “IoT” connectivity for cloud-based applications and services.

Heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, shading – Beckhoff provides all functions in a modular software system.

With comprehensive software libraries, TwinCAT Building Automation engineering software delivers tried and trusted modular software templates for all functionalities. The configuration is therefore not only more efficient, but also more flexible.

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