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Buildings account for 40% of energy consumption in Europe. If we want to achieve the climate objectives, we must therefore make the buildings a lot more energy efficient. And building automation plays a crucial role in this: making techniques communicative and combining them with logging and monitoring. Result: a smart building that offers comfort with a CO2-neutral footprint!
ATS Smart Building Solutions keeps its finger on the pulse of all trends in the field of "Smart Buildings". Whereas our role used to be limited to developing an HVAC system at the installer's request, we now think along with the end customer about how we can best automate his building for efficient operation.
But what makes a building smart?
Two elements play a crucial role: on the one hand, the available techniques, or part of them, must be integrated in such a way that they can communicate with each other. On the other hand, they must be able to learn from their experiences. We therefore always construct building management systems in such a way that they can log.
The more data they collect, the more insights they will distil over time to fine-tune the interplay of these different techniques.
ESCO companies make the move to smart buildings a lot easier for their customers. These companies carry out energy projects for their customers and also finance them themselves. The energy savings realised are then used to pay off the installation. ATS Smart Building Solutions also collaborates on energy projects of ESCO companies. For this we often work together with our parent company Luminus.
Once techniques are integrated with a building management system, all information is analyzed and visualized in clear dashboards with the in-house developed ATS SmartKit. With this tool, ATS Smart Building Solutions has a tool to monitor any building remotely.
It is then very easy to monitor how a building is performing and where it can be improved. This is crucial in order to realise the projected savings.
ATS Group invested in a new production site in Langerbrugge for its mechatronics activities. All assets were linked to a building management system DESIGO. Watch here the interview with colleague Olivier De Cock of the SBS team
In order to show customers today what is possible, ATS has turned its own company building in Ghent into its calling card. Lighting, sun blinds, fire detection, intrusion protection, access control, heating, ventilation, electric charging points, hot water production, battery system, ...
Everything works from a single platform to which external data such as weather forecasts is also added.
To show you the power of a building management system, you can request a visit to this demo site.
