A Building Management System (BMS) is an electronic system meant to manage all the technical installations in a building, like HVAC, lights, energy production and distribution, sunblind, tap and waste water and elevators, with the purpose of supervise, monitor, control, report and archive
The human machine interface can be done in one or several PC’s (local or remote), in local touch panels or even using a smartphone. This is done through a graphical user-friendly interface
According to EU legislation, BMS are mandatory for medium and big sized building, among other measures to reduce global energy consumption
BMS systems are a core component for energy efficiency, one of the 5 targets for EU2020
When well configured and commissioned a BMS contributes to the achievement of some of the most important goals related to the building operation: