Featured Project
Education: Lakewood Public Schools
Problem:
Lakewood Public Schools has 6 schools covering a large geographic district. Each school used a different brand of control system; with dedicated access only available from that school’s location. HVAC service requests required staff to drive from school to school to make even minor adjustments or changes. Room comfort conditions required a site visit to assess or confirm. Hundreds of man-hours of labor were lost each year driving from school to school.
Needs:
- Reduce travel time of LPS maintenance staff
- Combine all LPS control systems under one umbrella system
- Present all LPS HVAC information in a common, standardized format
- Provide LPS remote access to this information from any location
- Relay HVAC alarms from all schools to LPS staff via cell, email or pager
- Improve LPS staff response time to requests
- Provide HVAC status without specialized software or equipment
- Provide LPS trending of all pertinent HVAC data
- Provide LPS uniform operational scheduling of HVAC equipment
- Provide an expandable platform to integrate future equipment (lighting, security, irrigation, etc) into system
Solution:
Tridium Ax Niagara Framework Integration by Temperature Control, Inc
Now LPS staff can respond to service requests with a mouse click from any location. They can verify run status, space temperature, valve positions and many other conditions remotely before needing to dispatch a technician for service. Large spaces like auditoriums can be pre-scheduled to warm up or cool down based on actual need and usage.