Introduction to Building Automation:
Johnson Controls is the industry leader, internationally in Building Management Systems and controls.
With international support and development available we can ensure our customers use not only the latest technology, but also
the most reliable and energy efficient software and controls.
The BMS Software developed by Johnson Controls is called Metasys.
Metasys has been labelled as the “World’s Smartest Building Management System”.
Metasys is a web based building automation system.
The Metasys User experience is a portal into a site that you can tailor to fit the needs of all
system users.
The user experience provided by Metasys can evolve and scale to match the needs of any
single facility or campus.
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Metasys User Interface (UI)
• Views of all equipment serving a space or another piece of equipment
• A single view of all items in alarm, warning, overridden, out of service, and offline states within a space
• A single view to understand the correlation between disparate events within the system
• Trends of historical equipment data for up to 10 points (computer platform) and four points (tablet and phone platforms) at a time
• Views of all relationships a piece of equipment has with other equipment, spaces, and network field controllers
• Comparisons of all similar equipment that directly serves the space and all downstream spaces
• Viewing floor plan and equipment graphics without the need for third party plugins or additional spaces
• Viewing alarms by space and equipment as well as managing alarms
• Viewing alarms while not logged in (Alarm Monitor)
• View and edit space and equipment schedules Large Format (PC, MAC)
Small Format
(Phones,
iPad Mini)
Medium Format
(Tablets)
Metasys Site Management Portal
• Pop-up alarm windows
• Navigation tree—you can create multiple custom trees to best represent the logical layout of the facility
• Dynamic graphics of systems and floor plans that you can zoom in on to show fine details.
• Multiple display areas you can size and control individually
• Global search function and sorting capability that helps you find system information within seconds
• The entire user manual available in the Help system
Overview of Metasys
The purpose of the Metasys System allowed for is to ensure seamless integration between the various systems within the
building.
Metasys is configured to ensure that the building operates efficiently and at optimal conditions.
Metasys has the following features and capabilities:
1) Advanced Automated Reporting
a) Reports will be generated at scheduled intervals and emailed to the relevant departments.
b) Contents of the customized report will be confirmed by the Client prior to implementation.
c) These reports will contain a combination of information such as:
a) Energy Consumption – Electrical and Water
b) Information required for billing purposes
c) History of usage time for meeting rooms
d) Running times of equipment to determine maintenance intervals.
e) Alarm history.
f) User activity history.
2) Mobile user interface for all authorised users to access the system based on the priority levels set out by the client.
3) Trending of the following:
a) Energy usage
b) Electrical Consumption
c) Water Consumption
d) Building Occupancy
4) Data storage and exporting for billing purposes
5) Energy Management to reduce energy consumption and associated costs
6) Alarming for critical items Control at your fingertips
7) Alarming and reporting for preventative maintenance purposes rather than reactive maintenance such as:
1) Cleaning of Filters
2) Servicing of generators
3) Servicing of pumps
8) Scheduling for all connected systems and meeting rooms
9) Provide a high level interface to connect all standalone systems into 1 interface.
Metasys System Capabilities:
Time Management
The time and date used by all devices connected to a site are
synchronized automatically, preventing errors from manual time
entry and clocks that become inaccurate over time.
Network-wide time management ensures that scheduling,
trending, audit trailing, data collecting, time-stamping of alarms,
and other functions requiring accurate time management use
the same time and date consistently for all system operations.
Alarm and Event Management
The alarm and event feature provides event management for
the system and allows you to configure the routing of event
messages to destinations such as the server for permanent
storage.
The Metasys Site Management Portal UI features a pop-up
alarms window, which alerts the operator to potential problems
whenever the operator is logged in to the system; and an event
viewer, which provides for greater analysis or a history of
alarms and events in the system.
Metasys System Capabilities:
Scheduling
Scheduling provides a graphical user interface that illustrates
when events are scheduled to occur. Scheduling automates
routine functions, such as transferring a room from occupied
mode to unoccupied mode for heating and cooling needs, and
energy optimization.
Monitoring and Commanding
Monitoring and commanding allows you to efficiently navigate through
items associated with your building operations as well as view, analyse,
and modify these items.
Use these features to:
• access, view, and modify item data
• send commands to items
• run reports to analyse item information
Historical Data Management (Trend)
The Metasys Historical Data Management capability allows you
to collect, store, and view historical samples of object data.
With the information generated by this feature, you can
manage energy usage, prove compliance to standards, and
diagnose problems in your facility.
Metasys System Capabilities:
Demand Limiting and Load Rolling
The Demand Limiting (DL) feature reduces utility bills by limiting peak energy usage.
DL electively turns off (sheds) equipment, such as fans and lights, or adjusts setpoints to limit
energy use during peak times.
The Load Rolling (LR) feature helps save money by reducing overall energy consumption. LR
acts continuously to maintain a specified energy reduction by shedding unnecessary loads.
Audit Trails (Transaction Data Management)
The Audit Trail feature records events generated either by user actions or system activity.
Metasys System Capabilities:
Metasys Advanced Reporting System Energy Essentials
The web-based reporting interface provides standard Energy Essentials is an optional software feature that
report sets to allow users to review the alarm and trend can be added to the Metasys Advanced Reporting
configuration of their site, run summary and detail reports System. It offers seven types of energy reports that
to monitor alarm and event information, view offline provide a high-level view of normalized energy use
information, combine alarm and audit information in a across your site, and presents your daily electrical
single report, and provide summary and detailed trend demand graphically
aggregations.
Typical BMS Interface Topology
Client IP Network
BACnet IP BACnet IP BACnet IP BACnet IP
Network Network Network Network
CCTV Parking
Access Control Fire System
System Management
HVAC Systems
Extraction Fans
Systems connected to the BMS
Pressurization Fans
Motorized Dampers
Lighting
Electrical Metering
Water Metering
UPS Monitoring
Generator Monitoring
Lifts
Graphics Examples
