Functional aspects in the building automation field¶

Building automation can be subdivided into some functional areas. Even though such a subdivision is subjective, it may help to navigate in the CODESYS Building library.

In the building automation field, we know at least the following functional system parts and areas:

• Primary plants (boiler plants, heat transfer stations, chillers etc.)

• HVAC (heating, ventilating, air conditioning)

• Room automation (controlling temperature, air qualitity, lighting, shading, and other aspects)

• Lighting control in general

• Optimization (of cost, energy consumptions, user comfort etc.) on specific levels of automation

• Building management

• Computer-aided facility management

Building automation applications or libraries often come with support functionality or implementation for:

• Specific actuators

• Specific aggregates or assemblies

• Specific control or optimization algorithm