Intelligent Early Warning System for Building Monitoring

Every company and public authority contains important rooms and facilities. Critical rooms and facilities include, among others:

• Manufacturing / Production / Storage / Logistics
• Cold rooms, refrigerated and deep-freeze storage
• Research, laboratory, development
• Switch room, telephone system, IT and server room
• Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems

These rooms and facilities must be effectively protected against a wide range of possible risks and threats. For this, modern building monitoring with monitoring systems is essential.

Around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. If an operational failure or catastrophic event occurs in these important rooms, it will certainly have a direct impact on the entire company or authority.

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Example 1:

Due to poor maintenance, the air conditioning fails. The storage room relies on a constant temperature.

The temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical and chemical products stored there overheat and can no longer be delivered to customers. Here, a temperature sensor as part of environmental monitoring is indispensable.

Example 2:

In the middle of winter, a burst water pipe destroys the entire heating system. The room temperature of the sales areas, restaurants, medical offices, fitness centers, and offices in the building drops to critical cold levels. On Monday morning, tenants cannot open their businesses, venues, or practices. Employees, customers, and patients must be sent home.

A humidity sensor and an alarm system can provide early warning in this case.

Example 3:

A defect in the sprinkler system releases large amounts of water in the building. The water damage floods offices, shops, and storage rooms. Escaping water also enters the elevator shafts and the machine room. Thanks to modern remote monitoring and monitoring systems, immediate action can be taken.

It can take months before the insurance settles the damages and the repair work is completed by contractors.

Innovative Building Early Warning System

It is good to have a suitable solution for early detection of risks and hazards in the monitored building. With the web-based solutions from Didactum, facility managers receive a building monitoring system that can be used across all industries. While a conventional alarm system can often only report break-ins and unauthorized access, these advanced solutions can also reliably detect and report physical risks such as overtemperature, condensation, water damage, or power failure.

Each of these hazard detection and alarm systems operates stand-alone and supports the TCP/IP network protocol. You can access the German-language user interface of the all-in-one building early warning system from virtually anywhere. Get an up-to-date overview of the monitored building via PC, laptop, tablet, or smartphone.

Intelligent Building Monitoring with IP-Enabled Sensors

The modular architecture supports a customized configuration of the building early warning system with intelligent, IP-enabled sensors such as temperature sensors, humidity sensors, smoke detectors, and environmental sensors.

The following options are available:

• Environmental sensors for measuring and monitoring temperature, airflow, humidity, dew point formation
• Physical security sensors for detecting and reporting fire (smoke detectors), humidity, and water damage (humidity sensors)
• Current and voltage sensors for measuring and monitoring direct or alternating current

Web-Based Real-Time Measurement, Control, and Regulation

Each temperature sensor, humidity sensor, airflow, or current sensor can be equipped with individual threshold and alarm values.

As part of IP network-based monitoring of important rooms and facilities, you can define up to 5 freely selectable states with the mouse (high warning level / low warning level / normal state / high critical state / low critical state).

This innovative alarm system monitors all connected sensors in real time. If the included temperature sensor measures under- or overtemperature or even critical heat, notifications and alarm messages are immediately sent to the responsible staff.

Notifications are sent by email, SMS alarms (via GSM modem), and/or SNMP messages to the building monitoring software.

Network Integration of Building Technology

Each TCP/IP-based building early warning system from Didactum is equipped with input and output contacts.

The switching and signaling contacts of building-installed technology such as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems can thus be monitored around the clock in real time. If the installed heating or air conditioning system reports a technical defect, the responsible staff are informed by email or SMS (via GSM modem).

Status and fault messages can also be transmitted via the TCP/IP network to remote locations for remote monitoring.

Checklists and Reports for Facility Management

The temperature and humidity values measured by the hazard detection and alarm system are stored in the built-in data memory.

Access the control interface via web browser and, for example, display the temperature trend graphically. For required documentation regarding temperature monitoring, the measurement data can be downloaded with a simple mouse click.

For example, use Microsoft Excel to create important checklists and reports. Didactum certainly also offers a suitable building monitoring system for your company or authority.