Commercial Building Automation Solutions
Make Your Building Work SmarterA commercial building has to do more than keep the lights on and the temperature comfortable. It has to respond to changing occupancy, manage energy efficiently, support occupant well-being and give facility teams the visibility they need to make better decisions.
That is where building automation becomes more than a collection of controls.
With Smart Controls, turn building data into smarter action.
Our high-performance controllers, sensors, programming tools and network technologies give building professionals the flexibility they need to monitor building conditions, automate equipment operations, and develop control strategies around the way their unique facility actually functions.
Whether you are optimizing an existing system or planning to launch a new control network, Smart Controls provides the technology needed to make your building more responsive, efficient and manageable.
Optimize Energy Without Sacrificing Comfort
Energy efficiency should not mean asking occupants to accept an uncomfortable building.
Intelligent control allows your HVAC and other building systems to respond to real operating conditions instead of relying solely on fixed schedules or manual adjustments. Ever-changing factors like temperature, humidity, CO2, occupancy and other inputs can become an integrated part of your control strategy that’s designed to deliver the right level of conditioning at the right time.
The result is a building that can respond to how it is actually being used, helping reduce unnecessary energy consumption while maintaining the ideal environment occupants expect.
Turn Indoor Air Quality Data Into Action
A comfortable building is not necessarily a healthy building.
Monitoring temperature, humidity, CO2 and VOC levels gives facility teams a clearer picture of their indoor environmental conditions. Smart Controls’ SI-40 series sensors can simultaneously collect these environmental measurements, while compatible control systems use that real-time information as part of a broader building automation strategy.
Instead of simply collecting data, the goal now becomes how to make that information useful, to help identify key variable conditions, and to support more responsive control.
Connect With the Building You Already Have
Building modernization does not always start with a blank sheet of paper.
Many commercial facilities contain a mixture of equipment, controllers and communication protocols accumulated over years of upgrades and renovations. Replacing everything at once simply to gain better control may not always be practical.
Smart Controls’ multi-protocol controllers are designed with that reality in mind. The SC240-MP, for example, supports native BACnet, MODBUS and LonTalk communication and provides flexible I/O for a wide range of equipment-control applications.
That flexibility gives system integrators more options when developing impactful solutions for existing infrastructures.
Build Control Around Your Application
Every building has different equipment, schedules, priorities, and constraints.
With VisualControl™, Smart Controls provides advanced graphical programming capabilities that allow users to develop customized distributed control applications without relying solely on traditional line-code programming.
That means a building’s control strategy can be specifically tailored into the application, not the other way around.
The Smart Controls Approach
A smarter commercial building starts with the right information and the ability to act on it.
Smart Controls brings together:
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.