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4. BUILDING INSTRUMENTATION
The concept of building control will be used in two ways:
In a broader sense, to designate the entire automation instrumentation with a reference to the technical building equipment:
The building management system is an integral part of building automation, which divided into three levels. The field level, the automation level and the management level. The building control is located on the top level, the management level.
In the narrower and more common sense of shared software:
As building control, the software is called; the building will be monitored and controlled. The software runs in the rule on a PC and is the manufacturer of building automation technology or Direct Digital Control (DDC). There are a few vendor-building control systems. These communicate with the DDCs in the buildings have appropriate interfaces such as OLE for Process Control (OPC) and Building Automation and Control Networks (BACnet) with their respective advantages and disadvantages.
As building automation is known however, the entirety of monitoring, control, and optimization facilities in buildings as part of the technical facility management.
The actual control of the building by the DDCs in the building distributed directly to the management and control functions in the area of heating, ventilation and lighting controls.
In building automation, the ongoing process of building data stored. As data, which are recorded and archived, for example apply.