Building Sustainability and Efficiency to be Increased by New EcoStruxure Building Solutions from Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric announced two new solutions to help increase building sustainability and efficiency while helping to enhance occupant comfort. EcoStruxure Building Operation 2022, an open and integrated smart building management system, and the SpaceLogic Insight-Sensor, a six-in-one room sensor with anonymous real-time people counting, will be new solutions that contribute to the journey to net-zero carbon buildings.

EcoStruxure Building Operation 2022 and SpaceLogic Insight-Sensor deliver building owners and facility managers with more granular visibility through open, integrated building systems and devices that more easily connect and exchange information. The new offers also provide additional flexibility to adapt and respond to owners’, occupants’ and society’s needs today and in the future. And they leverage IoT, which helps to ensure that important building data can be accessed, standardized, secured, and analyzed for greater efficiency and predictive maintenance using AI and machine learning.

EcoStruxure Building Operation 2022

EcoStruxure Building Operation, part of the EcoStruxure Building ecosystem, is an open and scalable next-generation building management solution that provides a single control center for building and facility managers to monitor, manage and better optimize systems that were traditionally siloed.  It allows bi-directional integration and exchange of third-party systems and devices and does not lock-up customers’ data in proprietary languages or codes.

Building Operation 2022 provides simpler integration, visibility and actionable data from microgrids, EV charging stations, and renewable energy sources, in addition to previously integrated HVAC, power, lighting, security, and fire systems to create more sustainable, energy and operationally efficient comfortable buildings.

EcoStruxure Building Operation 2022 other new features and benefits include:

• Scalable software licensing bundle options which can help to make solutions more affordable for smaller, mid-market projects, and a new subscription-based software assurance upgrade option that support system modernization.
• Enhanced reports and dashboard UIs, including Alarm Management, which provides additional insights and notifications to issues before they can become disruptive problems
• Technical data is now simpler to understand and manage by facility managers
• Access to more data, especially from the proliferation of IoT-enabled connected room devices
• Industry-specified compliance and cybersecurity features, including new BACnet /SC (Secure Connect); Single Sign-On (SSO) with SAML 2.0; secure boot for the SpaceLogic Automation Server; and TLS 1.5 encryption

SpaceLogic Insight-Sensors

Schneider Electric also introduced the SpaceLogic Insight-Sensor, a six-in-one ceiling mounted room/zone sensor for people counting, occupancy, light, sound, temperature, and humidity sensing. Unlike traditional ventilation controls that rely on schedules or CO2 levels, the SpaceLogic Insight-Sensor, which uses anonymous people-counting technology, responds to precise changes in room occupancy in real-time to better optimize fresh air supply. The direct integration with EcoStruxure Building Operation enables faster response times with no additional design, configuration or commissioning costs.

When more people enter a room, the Insight-Sensor informs EcoStruxure Building Operation, which dynamically adjusts room ventilation, reacting quickly before conditions become uncomfortable. Conversely, the Insight-Sensor ensures that energy use for HVAC or lighting is reduced when rooms are at low or zero occupancy.

SpaceLogic Insight-Sensor provides these additional features and benefits:

• Faster installation and commissioning with native integration via the SpaceLogic RP-C Controller, the room’s IP backbone infrastructure, as part of EcoStruxure Connected Room Solutions
• Ability to more easily reconfigure floor plans and work areas based on actual space usage patterns
• Remote control, wayfinding and other occupant services enabled by Bluetooth iBeacon and third-party beaconing applications
• Granular data on energy use and well-being analytics (temperature, light, sound) to help achieve LEED, WELL, BREEAM, Fitwel and other building certifications