A building management system (BMS) is a control system that can be used to monitor and manage the mechanical, electrical and electromechanical services in a facility. Such services can include power, heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, physical access control, pumping stations, elevators and lights. The major advantage of having the BMS is that all these monitoring and controlling parameters can be finally displayed and recorded automatically in computer screen at control room which can have one user who can monitor all the facility health status centrally. Some of the salient features of BMS are:
- Monitoring required parameters of the facility to certain the health of the running plant.
- Automatic controls for critical parameters can be set. so that the system can control those parameters in the specified range only.
- For parameters which are safety-critical, Suitable Alarms, Interlocks, and system shutdowns can be programmed to avoid incidents.
- Completely flexible to be adopted to the process and user requirements.
- Automatic data recording at regular intervals so that history can be analysed.
- Intelligent graphs generation.
- Integration with other third-party services such as compressors, chillers, vacuum pumps, fire alarm system etc.,
