Military Building Automation Solutions
Make Your Building Work SmarterMilitary facilities have unique operational requirements. Buildings may house sensitive equipment, supplies, personnel, and infrastructure that need to remain ready for use when they are needed.
For many of those assets, controlling and maintaining the air quality in their environment is critical to their ensured success.
Temperature, humidity, airflow, and other building conditions can affect equipment storage and facility operation. At the same time, military facilities often include large or distributed spaces where maintaining consistent conditions can be challenging.
Smart Controls helps bring precise environmental sensing and automated control together to support mission-critical facility operations.
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.
Control the Conditions That Protect Equipment
Equipment does not stop being valuable simply because it is in storage.
Appropriate environmental conditions can help protect stored assets from issues associated with temperature and humidity extremes. Building automation provides a way to monitor those conditions and develop control strategies around them.
Smart Controls controllers and sensors provide the essential foundation for applications that can monitor environmental variables and control necessary HVAC equipment.
The goal is straightforward: Know what is happening. Control what is necessary. Respond when conditions change.
Monitor Temperature and Humidity
Temperature and humidity are among the most important environmental variables to monitor in many storage and facility applications.
Smart Controls offers sensors and controllers that can incorporate real-time temperature and humidity measurements into building automation applications. Our SI-40 family of sensors, for example, provides temperature and humidity sensing along with CO₂ and VOC measurement in applicable models.
That information can be used as part of a broader environmental control strategy designed around the requirements of the facility and its unique assets.
Respond to Changing Conditions
A facility may operate predictably most of the time. That does not mean conditions never change.
Outdoor weather, occupancy, equipment operation, mechanical-system performance and other factors can directly affect the building environment.
Automation allows control strategies to effortlessly respond to those changes rather than relying entirely on manual intervention.
With programmable controllers such as the SC240-MP, system integrators have flexible I/O and multi-protocol communication capabilities that can support a wide range of equipment control applications.
Connect Different Systems and Generations
Mission-critical facilities can contain various network infrastructures with technologies that have been installed and upgraded over many years.
With this reality at the top of our mind, Smart Controls’ multi-protocol controllers support BACnet, Modbus, and LonTalk protocols, providing extreme integration flexibility when installing our equipment into control systems across different applications.
That matters when modernization needs to account for what is already installed, not just what is available today.
Build for the Application
Every military facility has different requirements. A storage facility may prioritize environmental stability. Another building may have different occupancy, HVAC or equipment-control needs. A distributed facility may require a different network strategy than a centralized one.
VisualControl™ provides advanced graphical programming capabilities that allow control applications to be customized to the unique requirements of the installation. That application flexibility is central to the Smart Controls approach.
The Smart Controls Approach
For facilities supporting critical operations, building automation is not simply about convenience. It is about creating a controlled environment that helps people protect the equipment, spaces and resources they are responsible for.
Smart Controls provides the technology to help make that possible through a commitment to practical and reliable building automation solutions, including:
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.