We have direct product relationships with several different vendors such as Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Triatek, Notifier, Harrington, NexWatch Access Controls and Intercall. Since there is a variety of control applications at our customers sites, our product relationships gives us the flexibility to offer several different controller lines with unique properties from the physical hardware to the user interface software.

This allows us to match the correct product line with each site based on owners preferences, budgets and control strategies. This also allows seamless integration into new and existing systems. Our customer base varies as does our product lines, including hospitals, municipalities, high rise buildings, industrial plants, prisons, schools and universities.
We have third party communications interfaces to most chiller control panels, power monitors, fire detection panels, access control systems, lighting controllers and boiler control panels.

This allows for centralized control, monitoring, data collection and trending for all of your existing equipment. You will be able to compare all of your equipments data in one format in order to increase the efficiency of your site and decrease your energy costs.

Access Control Systems

Our approach to access controls allows us to be able to provide a range of access and security soloutions under the same application platform. We are NexWatch systems integrator which allows us to install small systems of one or two access points and without changing our customers software or hardware, and add more functionality as the customer requests enhancements. The system is unique in that it runs on both the Windows 2000 operating system and also Linux. Since the system can communicate via Ethernet protocol, the system can utilize a customer's existing LAN or WAN, thus reducing installation costs. The system can also use twisted pair 485 as the network communication network.

Fire Alarm Systems

HVAC Systems

We have direct product relationships with several different HVAC systems vendors such as Honeywell, Johnson Controls and Triatek. Since there is a variety of control applications at our customers sites including office areas, data server centers and industrial plant process control rooms, our product relationships gives us the flexibility to offer several different controller lines with unique properties from the physical hardware to the user interface software. This allows us to match the correct product line with each site based on owners preferences, budgets and control strategies. This also allows seamless integration into existing systems. Our customer base varies as does our product lines, including hospitals, municipalities, high rise buildings, industrial plants, prisons, schools and universities.


We have third party communications interfaces to most chiller control panels, power monitors, fire detection panels, access control systems, lighting controllers and boiler control panels. This allows for centralized control, monitoring, data collection and trending for all of your existing equipment. You will be able to compare all of your equipments data in one format in order to increase the efficiency of your site and decrease your energy costs.


There is a new trend in the building automation industry where several differnent vendors will use a common network communication standard and fully integrate several control system applications. The primary two emerging communications protocols in the industry today are LONWorks and BACNet. By using a controller that uses one of these two protocols, an owner is no longer locked into using one vendors proprietary products for system expansion and service. If an owner is not satisfied with the service provided by their control contractor, a second company can take over service and system expansion without needing to replace the existing controllers. Since the controllers use the same communications protocol, a controller can be replaced by another vendors controller without the need for any network modifications. The BACNet protocol has evolved into a good way of communicating between two proprietary systems, but not allowing several vendors products to operate together on the same network. The BACNet protocol was designed by ASHRAE(American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc.) which limits building integration to primarily HVAC controls systems and neglects other facility systems such as lighting control systems, access control systems, power metering, ect. In order to offer a more robust and beneficial control system to our clients, we have decided to use LONTalk for our preferred network communication protocol.


There are many controls companies that are selling what they call an open system, which may or may not be truly open. Several of these companies are using the LONTalk protocol in their control systems networks, but they communicate through a proprietary gateway. This means that only their controllers will be able to communicate on their so called open network. The key is to make sure the control system is interoperable and that the controller are LONMark certified. This means that the LONMark organization has deemed that the controllers fit a universal template and will be able to communicate to other LONMark certified controllers.

Open Systems

There is a new trend in the building automation industry where several differnent vendors will use a common network communication standard and fully integrate several control system applications. The primary two emerging communications protocols in the industry today are LONWorks and BACNet. By using a controller that uses one of these two protocols, an owner is no longer locked into using one vendors proprietary products for system expansion and service. If an owner is not satisfied with the service provided by their control contractor, a second company can take over service and system expansion without needing to replace the existing controllers. Since the controllers use the same communications protocol, a controller can be replaced by another vendors controller without the need for any network modifications. The BACNet protocol has evolved into a good way of communicating between two proprietary systems, but not allowing several vendors products to operate together on the same network. The BACNet protocol was designed by ASHRAE(American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc.) which limits building integration to primarily HVAC controls systems and neglects other facility systems such as lighting control systems, access control systems, power metering, ect. In order to offer a more robust and beneficial control system to our clients, we have decided to use LONTalk for our preferred network communication protocol.


There are many controls companies that are selling what they call an open system, which may or may not be truly open. Several of these companies are using the LONTalk protocol in their control systems networks, but they communicate through a proprietary gateway. This means that only their controllers will be able to communicate on their so called open network. The key is to make sure the control system is interoperable and that the controller are LONMark certified. This means that the LONMark organization has deemed that the controllers fit a universal template and will be able to communicate to other LONMark certified controllers.

Honeywell

We are a Honeywell BCI systems integrator covering the Southern Louisiana area. We have installed many Honeywell DDC controls systems including open LON systems. The new SymmetrE front end allows the integration of CBus devices and LONMark certified devices and includes other communications protocols such as a BACNet client, Modbus and OPC. This will allow multiple third party devices to reside on the same system front end as the existing Honeywell XL5000 system devices.

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