BMS Architecture & Integration

A single building can run hundreds of control loops, and a Building Management System (BMS) is what ties them together: the central nervous system that monitors, coordinates and records HVAC, lighting, and often power, metering and more. For an energy manager the BMS is the most powerful tool in the building, because it is both the place waste is created (through bad configuration) and the place it is found (through the data it holds). This lesson covers how a BMS is structured and how its parts talk, so the later lessons on what it can do have somewhere to stand.