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Honeywell Control Systems Ltd
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Belfast’s £91 million Odyssey Centre has the UK’s first integrated building system to provide seamless “single window” access to fire, security, access control and building energy management systems
Critical decisions can be made quickly, with positive effects on safety, security and energy efficiency
BRACKNELL, UK, 3 APRIL 2001 – The UK’s first integrated building management system has been installed at Belfast’s Odyssey centre, using Honeywell’s Enterprise Buildings Integrator (EBI) to provide seamless “single window” access to fire, security, access control and building energy management systems. Odyssey is Northern Ireland’s largest-ever civil engineering project, comprising four venues. The first to open has been the Arena, a 10,000-seat indoor sports and entertainment stadium. The other venues are “W5” (whowhatwhenwherewhy), an interactive science, engineering and technology centre; a Sheriden IMAX® cinema; and the Pavilion including a 12-screen multiplex cinema and a two-storeys of restaurants, bars and retail outlets. These will open during 2001.
The complex has three control rooms from which Honeywell EBI’s open architecture and robust user interface provides seamless access to real-time and historical data from all subsystems, from fire and security to energy management. Critical decisions can be made quickly, with positive effects on safety, security and energy efficiency.
The control rooms are distributed across the complex: one serves the Arena, the second the W5 centre, the third both the Pavilion and IMAX cinema. As the EBI terminals across the site are networked, each control room can supervise its own part of the complex during its own public opening times, then hand over supervision to operators elsewhere at other times.
Ballymena-based J B Electrical was contracted to supply all electrical services for the entire 23-acre site. It contracted two Belfast-based systems integrators in two specialist areas: The Diamond Systems Group for CCTV, security and access control, and ATC Systems for the complete building energy management systems. Both are accredited systems integrators to Honeywell’s Home and Building Control business, the global leader in building system technology, which provided the management systems themselves. In practical terms, Honeywell supplied the fire and security system equipment to Diamond Systems, and the building management system to ATC; then supervised the installation of the EBI software to enable all the subsystems to link seamlessly.
Underpinning the
whole installation is a structured cabling infrastructure provided
by specialists from Honeywell Network Solutions. This provides
over 650 outlets for site management terminals and control desks
as well as the field-mounted devices. These are for temperature,
humidity and ventilation monitoring and control, building intruder
detection and surveillance system, security access card readers,
CCTV cameras and telemetry control. All connections are made using
standard RJ 45 outlets. The structured cabling infrastructure not
only simplified installation but will also result in long-terms
cost savings by enabling changes and upgrades to be achieved
quickly and easily, without the need for rewiring.
As Northern
Ireland's Landmark project marking the new millennium - one of 12
projects awarded funds by the Millennium Commission - the
Odyssey's Project's management were looking for innovation and use
of "best practices" to provide a building that
represented the new millennium and contained the very best of the
latest technologies, so providing a living example of technology
in buildings today. Diamond Systems and Honeywell proposed an
intelligent building infrastructure that would not only support
the building services specified at the outset but would also
provide superior flexibility to add and change these systems in
the future.
Within Ireland,
no single company was able to provide the expertise necessary to
bring a fully integrated infrastructure together, so Honeywell
agreed to work as a catalyst and mentor to the local firms that
would deliver the subsystems in a way that enables them to
integrate seamlessly. With this integration, information can be
transferred between systems so that the client can manage all
aspects of the complex from any terminal.
Noting that the
building systems and infrastructure were installed on time and on
budget, Odyssey's facilities manager, Brenda Mcilvar, commented,
"The systems installation has gone very well. There were
several companies involved - JB Electrical, Diamond Systems, ATC,
Honeywell and other sub-contractors - and I was very impressed
that everyone worked so well together as a team to ensure the
Arena systems were ready on time and that we got through the first
few events satisfactorily."
Three
applications can be accessed under EBI from any PC. First,
Honeywell LifeSafety Manager provides primary monitoring and full
control of the building's smoke and fire detection systems - which
employ over one thousand intelligent smoke detectors - as well as
the safe evacuation of occupants. Its seamless combination of
event information, response prompting and tracking capabilities
makes it an exceptional incident management and regulatory
compliance tool, as required by local codes of practice. The
second application, Honeywell Security Manager, allows operators
to control and monitor access and security throughout Odyssey and
its grounds. It provides centralised alarming, cardholder
management and the ability to acquire and use data from human
resource databases. There are sixty access control points with
card readers, numerous movement detectors and over one hundred
door alarm contacts. Almost one hundred CCTV cameras are installed
throughout the complex, mainly full function PTZ domes. All the
devices communicate via the structured cabling system. The
security application has comprehensive reporting capabilities,
with preconfigured standard reports and the ability to create
reports customised to the facility's needs.
Third, Honeywell
Building Manager integrates and controls the building's HVAC
systems, lighting and energy usage. It maintains an extensive
historical record of building data, which can be collected at
intervals from one second to 24 hours. Therefore, in addition to
alerting operators immediately when an abnormal building condition
occurs, Honeywell Building manager makes it easy to analyse long
term operational patterns and so ensure optimal performance.
The Odyssey project will be the main focus for Honeywell on its
stand at the forthcoming IFSEC show. Visitors will be given more
detailed information about the integrated fire, security, access
control and building management systems installed at Odyssey. The
show takes place at the NEC, Birmingham, May 21-24. The stand
number is H80.
Honeywell Home & Building Control is a US$5 billion business
that provides products and services to create efficient, safe,
comfortable environments. The business offers controls for heating,
ventilation, humidification and air-conditioning equipment, security
and fire alarm systems, home automation systems, energy-efficient
lighting controls and building management systems and services.
Honeywell is a
US$25-billion diversified
technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products
and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products;
power generation systems; specialty chemicals; fibres; plastics; and electronic and
advanced materials. The company is a leading provider of software and solutions, and
Internet e-hubs including MyPlant.com, MyFacilities.com and MyAircraft.com (joint venture
with United Technologies and i2 Technologies). Honeywell employs approximately 120,000
people in 95 countries and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol HON,
as well as on the London, Chicago and Pacific stock exchanges. It is one of the 30 stocks
that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard
& Poor’s 500 Index. Additional information on the company is available on the
Internet at www.honeywell.com.
This release contains forward-looking
statements as defined in Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including
statements about future business operations, financial performance and market conditions.
Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties inherent in business
forecasts.
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Editorial contact: Royer Slater
Honeywell Control Systems Ltd
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