Educational Building Automation Solutions
Better Buildings Create Better Learning EnvironmentsA school or university campus is never just one building.
Classrooms fill and empty throughout the day. Offices may remain occupied while surrounding spaces are vacant. Laboratories and specialized facilities can have very different environmental requirements. And behind it all, facility teams are expected to manage energy, comfort and building performance, oftentimes across aging network infrastructure.
Smart Controls helps educational facilities turn those challenges into opportunities for smarter and more cost-effective building operation.
Whether you’re modernizing one building or developing a broader campus strategy, Smart Controls can help provide the technology behind a more responsive building environment.
Put Comfort Where It Is Needed
An empty classroom does not need the same HVAC operation as a room full of students.
Building automation allows facility teams to move beyond one-size-fits-all schedules by using real-time environmental and operational information to make more informed control decisions.
Temperature sensing, adaptable scheduling, and unique programmable control strategies can seamlessly work together to help maintain comfortable spaces while avoiding unnecessary conditioning when rooms are not in use.
That means energy can be directed where it matters most: when students, faculty and staff are actually using the space.
Make Indoor Air Quality Part of the Conversation
Students and educators spend a significant portion of their day indoors. That makes the quality of the indoor environment an important part of the facility equation.
Smart Controls’ SI-40 sensors can monitor four key environmental variables: temperature, humidity, CO₂ and VOCs.
Those measurements give building systems and facility teams greater insight into indoor conditions and can support better control strategies designed around the actual use of the environment.
Better air quality management leads to a better educational experience.
Bring Different Buildings Into a Smarter Strategy
Campus infrastructure is rarely uniform. A university may have modern academic facilities alongside decades-old buildings. Likewise, a school district may operate multiple large-scale buildings with different equipment and control architectures.
Smart Controls’ multi-protocol controllers support communication over BACnet, MODBUS and LonTalk protocols, giving system integrators better flexibility when working across different systems and applications.
That flexibility can be especially valuable when building modernization needs to happen gradually rather than all at once.
Build Solutions Around Your Campus
There is no universal control sequence for every classroom, laboratory, administrative building or athletic facility.
VisualControl™ allows Smart Controls users to create graphical control applications and customized programming for implementing specific building operations.
This gives integrators the ability to develop solutions around the actual way a building operates, including its class schedules, network equipment, and environmental priorities.
Efficiency That Supports the Mission
For educational institutions, energy efficiency is not simply a sustainability initiative. It is also an operational opportunity.
Reducing unnecessary equipment runtime, improving scheduling, and responding to actual building conditions can help institutions make better use of limited operating budgets while maintaining the environments students and staff depend on.
A smarter campus is not necessarily a campus with more technology. It’s a campus where technology is working together toward a clear cost-effective purpose.
The Smart Controls Approach
Your campus has different buildings, different people and different priorities. Your automation system should be flexible enough to accommodate all of them.
Smart Controls brings together the building blocks needed to develop smarter educational environments:
Flexible Controllers
for equipment-level automation
Programmable Control
for application-specific strategies
Multi-Protocol Communication
for greater integration flexibility
Network Technology
for connecting building systems
Environmental Sensing
for monitoring air-quality conditions
Emerging 10BASE-T1L Solutions
for optimizing Ethernet connectivity
Smart Controls is working on a new generation of integrated building automation solutions centered around innovative technologies such as Single Pair Ethernet (SPE), 10BASE-T1L, enhanced BACnet integration and next-generation application programming.
Your Building Is Unique. Your Control Solution Should Be Too.
Whether your priority is energy efficiency, occupant comfort, indoor air quality, legacy equipment modernization or a more connected control network, Smart Controls can help you build the technology around your facility’s needs.