Industrial Building Automation Solutions
Control the Environment Behind Your OperationsIndustrial facilities and warehouses are more than just places to store products or house equipment. They are working environments where temperature, humidity, airflow, energy use, and operating conditions can directly affect people, products, and productivity.
The challenge is keeping those conditions under control, often across large spaces with varying occupancy, equipment, and schedules that cannot afford unnecessary downtime.
Smart Controls provides you with the high-performance building automation controls that help industrial facilities respond to conditions intelligently.
Rather than treating the controller as the solution, we look at what the facility needs to accomplish and provide the extensive technology support that can make that outcome possible.
Keep Large Spaces Under Control
A large facility rarely has uniform operating conditions.
One area may be occupied while another sits empty. One zone may require conditioning while another does not. Outdoor conditions can change throughout the day, while internal loads change with production, equipment and personnel.
Building automation can effectively bring those variables into the control strategy.
Smart Controls controllers provide flexible inputs and outputs for uniquely monitoring and controlling building equipment, while sensors provide the real-time information needed to make those control decisions. The result is a more responsive approach to HVAC and environmental management.
Protect the Conditions That Protect Your Assets
Temperature and humidity are not simply comfort variables in an industrial environment.
They can influence material storage, equipment conditions and the long-term performance of sensitive assets.
By precisely monitoring environmental conditions and incorporating that data into automated control strategies, facility teams can better respond to changing conditions before they result in larger operational problems.
Use Energy Where It Matters
Industrial buildings can contain enormous conditioned spaces. Therefore, running HVAC equipment simply according to a fixed schedule does not necessarily mean the building is being operated efficiently.
A smarter approach considers actual conditions.
Automation control strategies can incorporate real-time temperature, humidity, airflow, occupancy schedules, and other available inputs to adjust equipment operation according to the facility’s needs. This can help reduce unnecessary runtime while maintaining the environmental conditions required for the space.
Efficiency is not simply using less energy. It’s using energy with greater purpose.
See More. Respond Faster.
The value of automation extends beyond automatic operation.
When facility teams have better information about what is happening in their buildings, they can identify abnormal conditions, investigate problems sooner and make more informed operational decisions.
Smart Controls technology is designed to support that visibility through flexible sensing, control, and communication capabilities.
Plus, with programmable controllers and VisualControl™ graphical programming software, applications can be tailored to the specific requirements of the facility rather than forcing every industrial application into the same control strategy.
Built for Demanding Applications
Industrial environments can be demanding, often requiring multifaceted control support in extreme conditions. Smart Controls’ SC240-MP, for example, has an operating temperature range of -20°C to 70°C and provides 12 universal inputs and 12 outputs for flexible equipment-control applications.
That combination of flexibility and environmental capability gives integrators more freedom to develop control solutions for challenging applications.
The Smart Controls Approach
Smart Controls helps industrial facilities bring environmental intelligence and automation together through:
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.