Building Management Systems

Expert
A oferta expirou
Can you take ABB to the next level within BMS? If you have solid technical
knowledge within Building Management Systems (BMS) and you are looking
for an opportunity to unfold all of your expertise, this unique job is your
perfect chance. You will become ABB’s leading BMS expert in the Danish and
Nordic sales organisation and the main driver in taking us to the next level
within BMS. In ABB you will be part of one of the world’s top leading
technology companies and work with an outstanding product portfolio in a
friendly environment with very good and highly skilled colleagues.

Tarefas :
As our prime BMS expert you will work on two tracks. One track is dedicated
to development of new BMS projects in the Nordic countries. Existing local
sales organisation will handle the primary sales responsibility but you will
bridge the technical and commercial perspectives in the projects – and bring
ABB’s technical competencies in front of the customers. The other track is
dedicated to building of BMS knowledge in the Nordic ABB organisation and
selected system integrators. You will:

• Provide technical expertise in the direct sales of projects together with

local sales organisations
• Engage in dialogue with customers to analyse demands and map technical
opportunities
• Develop BMS solutions and present those to the customers
• Build network to promote ABB competencies and influence decision makers
in possible projects
• Train colleagues and employees at our customers – from intelligent
installation to high-end BMS
• Spend at least 25 % of your time with the customers placed all over the
Nordic countries

Requisitos:
We are looking for a highly skilled technical profile that at the same time
thrives on working very close to the customers. This takes an outgoing and
open-minded personality with the ability to explain complicated technical
issues in a way that is understandable to non-technicians.
To succeed, you will need a minimum of 10 years’ experience within the area
of integration and BMS including HVAC, light and electrical control. In
combination with your strong application know-how it makes you capable of
integrating ABB and 3rd party products and systems into a unified solution.
In total, you can facilitate and drive the technical dialogue with the
customers and take on the role as leading expert in the Nordic ABB
organisation. You will need specific knowledge within:

• Open field protocols used in BMS: KNX, BACnet, LonWorks, DALI, Modbus
and M-Bus
• SCADA and supervision used in BMS: OPC and BACnet
• BMS system integrator work and workflow

Drives and the Building Management System

Modern Building Management Systems (BMS) provide a wide range of control functions: fire control, security,
power monitoring and air conditioning control. The latter of these is perhaps the best known function of a BMS,
and one that can be enhanced and improved by using electronic variable speed drives as an integral part of the
control system.

Variable speed drives, or VSDs, provide infinite control over the speed of motors driving pumps and fans. This
ensures that the BMS achieves maximum controllability over the building’s environment, matching the
temperature and humidity to the demands of the prevailing weather and the number of occupants. Compared to
cruder systems, such as dampers or valves which choke off the flow of air or liquid produced by a fan or pump,
a VSD can drive the fan at the exact speed needed to maintain the building’s internal conditions, making the
most of the capabilities of the BMS’ software and sensors.

Energy Saving

The other major advantage of VSDs is energy saving – by controlling the speed of the motor so it runs at only
the speed needed, VSDs help the BMS control energy usage. As an example, a 55kW motor in continuous
duty costs £24,000 per year to run at a cost of 5 pence/kilowatt hour. If 50% airflow is required all the time,
there are various ways to achieve this. The variable speed drive would use 12.5% of the rated motor power to
produce this, compared to the least efficient method, the outlet damper, which would use 80%.

The difference between the most and least efficient method in the example above is £16,000 worth of electricity
– £16,000 that need not be spent every year if variable speed drives are used.

An example of the benefits possible is an air conditioning project for Coutts & Co, the international private
banking arm of Natwest Group. Coutts is now saving some £70,000 per annum with the help of drive
technology from ABB, a cut of 90 per cent on its previous energy bill.

One 4kW, one 22kW and two 75kW drives are driving the pumps for chilled, hot and condenser water, as well
as medium pressure water for the boiler room. The pumps are now running at about 40% of maximum speed,
whereas before, they would be running at 100% continuously.
Sensors in the pipework, connected to the drives, help regulate the speed of the pumps to ensure optimum
usage of the water’s energy content. The system is co-ordinated with the Building Management System,
enabling easy control of the indoor climate. The lower pump speed also reduces mechanical wear, saving
maintenance costs.

Building the system

Drives are also relatively straightforward to connect to the BMS. In many applications, they require only three
hard-wired I/O connections; a start/stop, an analogue 0-10V input for speed control, and a fault relay output.
The other main connection option is to use a field bus system, which has the advantage of requiring only two
wires rather than individual hard-wired connections for each drive. Fieldbus is sufficiently fast for building
control, yet there is reluctance among BMS specifiers to move from the tried and trusted dedicated I/O method.

Fieldbus can also support an unlimited number of drives – systems incorporating hundreds of VSDs are not
uncommon. This gives BMS designers more options, allowing them to use more VSD features.

When choosing a VSD for a BMS, there are various criteria and issues to take into account. If it is intended for
use on a Fieldbus system, it should have interfaces to all the major protocols, such as LonWorks, Profibus,
Trend IQ and Modbus. Trend IQ is one of the most popular BMS protocols on the UK market, but few drives
use it and so an interface is needed, such as the Compass Point developed by North Communications. Used
by ABB drives, up to 20 drives can be connected to a single Compass Point unit.

It is also important for the drive to have low harmonics as standard – drives, fitted as standard with internal
harmonic chokes do produce less harmonic current and therefore reduce the level of harmonic pollution seen
by the supply network. This is particularly important now that the new G5/4 standard has been introduced.

The VSD should also have a good quality EMC filter that meets the requirements of first environment restricted
distribution.

Perhaps most important is that the drive should be a dedicated HVAC unit, with software suitable for building
applications. HVAC drives are quite different from process control drives and should not be confused. The
drive’s software suite should be one that can be programmed to meet the particular demands of HVAC
applications – for example, the drive should ideally have an dedicated exhaust fan function (sometimes referred
to as a fireman’s override) to disperse smoke in the event of a fire and one that responds to a loss of input
signal from the BMS by switching to top speed or to a speed set by the user.

Another thing to look for is the IP enclosure rating of the drive – an IP54 rating will allow the drive to be sited
next to the motor in potentially dusty or wet conditions. Cabling costs can thus be kept to a minimum, equally
important whether the drive is being designed into a new building or retrofitted into an older one.

Summary

Variable speed drives bring major advantages, helping the BMS to achieve one of its primary goals of
managing the building environment. Combined with the high energy savings they can bring, drives are
becoming an integral part of a modern BMS system.

Drives used in building control need to be dedicated HVAC drives, equipped with the appropriate software
 Building management systems
ABB's Facility Automation Solution (FAS) provides pre-
engineered and pretested modules that make it possible for
users to control, manage and report environmental
conditions during and after manufacture of a particular batch,
while verifying who took actions affecting those conditions.
Using a reusable pretested solution provides significant benefits and cost
savings in project delivery, plant operations, compliance and validation
costs.

A common 800xA system platform across process automation and facility

automation reduces costs associated with project engineering,
commissioning, qualification, training, documentation and maintenance,
thereby reducing the total cost of ownership.

This approach provides a simplified means of combining key environmental

data into the batch production record.

The standard set of pre-engineered and pretested templates include:

 Various air handling units (supply, supply and recirculation etc.)
 Utility modules (chillers, boilers etc.)
 Advanced automatic lead/lag, duty/stand-by switching for on/off or variable speed
motors etc.
 Overall facility startup and shutdown sequence
 Scheduler
 Zone monitoring and zone control
 Operational and compliance reports