Siemens Building Technologies Division, recently appointed International Energy Technik Limited (IET), a leading electrical engineering company in Kenya as its partner for Building Technologies in East Africa. In addition to the building technologies portfolio, International Energy Technik has represented Siemens AG for more than 25 years in industrial Automation and Drives products and services in the East African region.
International Energy Technik has a big market share and reputation in industrial automation in the region and aim to replicate the same in building Technology.
Siemens Building Technologies is the world market leader for safe, energy efficient and environmentally friendly buildings and infrastructure. As a technology partner, consultant, service provider, system integrator and product supplier, Siemens Building Technologies offers fire safety, security, building automation, heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) as well as energy management products and services.
Headquartered in ZUG, Switzerland,Siemens Building Technology division offers products, solutions and services that optimize the energy costs, reliability, comfort and performance of buildings while meeting ecological and sustainability requirements. The Division has a broad customer base that includes owners, operators and tenants of public and commercial buildings as well as general contractors, system houses and original equipment manufacturers (OEM).
In East Africa, Siemens Building Technologies Division through its local Partner (IET) will offer;
• A comprehensive portfolio of components, products and systems for demand-based, efficient control of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) plants, with all components optimally matched and covering all technical applications in the HVAC sector.
• Consulting and services as well as products and technologies aimed at optimizing the performance, comfort and energy efficiency of buildings and infrastructures across their entire lifecycle.
• Comprehensive monitoring, maintenance, modernization and efficiency optimization services for buildings and infrastructures.
• Comprehensive consulting services for energy management, energy procurement and consumption analysis, and implementation of efficiency measures.
• Innovative, high-quality fire safety products, systems and solutions for early and reliable detection, quick and deception-proof alarming and evacuation processes as well as intelligent extinguishing based on current room conditions.
• Integrated systems and solutions for specific markets and industries such as data centers, utility companies, airports, hospitals and hotels.
• Consulting, planning, development and financing of turnkey integrated automation, security and fire safety solutions for buildings and infrastructures (Total Building Solutions, TBS).
Siemens offers an integrated building management system that covers all your requirements – both now and in the future; this system is Desigo. Desigo is the most extensive building management system currently available on the market worldwide. It is an integrated solution that makes the best even better. Desigo provides managers, CEOs, users, facility managers, and building occupants with all relevant information for all aspects of properties and building portfolios – enabling them to make viable decisions that will safeguard the future of their companies and institutions over the long term.
With Desigo, you exploit intelligent synergies, work energy-efficiently and always remain flexible, allowing you to drastically reduce your investment costs, operating costs, and energy costs.
The Siemens Building Technologies Division has introduced a new version of its comprehensive Desigo CC building automation platform. From one app, this platform offers mobile remote access to building automation and alarm management. In addition, Desigo CC supports additional communications protocols and subsystems and offers enhanced IT security.
With Desigo CC, you can control and optimize all the systems in the building: heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, shading, room automation, energy management, and fire safety as well as security services like video surveillance and intrusion protection. Desigo CC adapts to your needs and can be used to manage multiple systems as well as individual services.
Thanks to a number of supported communications protocols, including BACnet, SNMP, Modbus, SSL and OPC, third-party products are easily integrated into the open platform. The flexible and intuitive user interface can be customized as needed and adapted to the roles, rights and language of each user.
The platform offers powerful analytics which greatly facilitates troubleshooting, error correction and performance optimization of specific disciplines. In addition, a new Desigo CC app offers mobile remote access to building automation and alarm management.
One highlight of the new Desigo CC version is the app for smartphones and tablets,which offers comprehensive remote access to the building automation system andallows direct operation of all disciplines in the building. The Desigo CC app gives building managers complete mobility. They can access building disciplines, optimizesettings and monitor performance quickly and easily – anytime and anywhere. in addition, alarms are delivered to the app, allowing managers to take action right away and ensuring uninterrupted availability of all building systems. The app has user interface and runs on any Android- or iOS-based smartphone or tablet.
Desigo CC also offers important IT security enhancements. For example, all communication between clients and servers is encrypted, the platform integrates easily into a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone), and it is compatible with all popular firewalls.
Since access rights for each user are defined by role and responsibilities, DesigoCC provides maximum protection for all collected data. Desigo CC now alsosupports certificates from trust centers such as Verisign. This, plus the optimized server architecture, ensures maximum security.
Desigo CC is currently the only building automation platform on the market to combine the management of all building disciplines in one system.
The new web service interface now allows the exchange of values, messages and alarms with other software products, such as third-party ERP systems. The flexible and intuitive user interface can be customized as needed and adapted to the roles,rights and language of each user. Currently 18 languages are supported, four of which can be installed simultaneously.
Among other things, Desigo offers the well-known Green Leaf functionality which makes it easy to spot inefficient operations at a glance. Desigo CC is scalable and can be deployed in small and simple buildings as well as large and complex structures.
This platform will be very useful for upcoming sky scrapers in Africa for building performance and energy efficiency.
