Levels of building automation application development¶
To have a rough scale of complexity and support focused communication, we use the following scale of application development in the building automation field:
Level |
Elements |
Examples |
|---|---|---|
6 |
Multi-plant optimization and control strategies |
|
5 |
Complete plants |
|
Single room automation |
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4 |
Complex aggregates |
Air conditioning, cogeneration (CHP), absorption refrigeration |
3 |
Simple aggregates |
Fan coil, heat pump |
Complex control strategies |
Load / unload control of thermally activated components, h,x-controlled |
|
2 |
Complex actuators |
Dual pump (redundant / parallel) |
Computation of physics |
Enthalpy, cooling limit temperature |
|
Control algorithm |
PID, characteristic map controllers, adaptive controllers |
|
1 |
Sensors |
Combined temperature / humidity sensor |
Simple actuators |
Continuous valve |
|
Simple algorithm |
Command execution monitoring |