UltraBSI/UltraControl
Monitors, controls and manages systems and equipment on the airport utilising best-of-breed SCADA products
Key benefits
- Reduces utilities and building systems outage times
- Improves efficiency of an airport control/operations room
- Improves response to incidents by electronic reporting of faults
- Reduces training requirements for operators
- Improves quality of service for passengers and airlines
- Better management of service agreements through enhanced reporting
Overview
UltraControl remotely monitors and controls the status of assets across the airport. Typical airport-wide assets would be electricity distribution, water treatment plant, road infrastructure etc. UltraBSI (Building Systems Integration) is a particular application of UltraControl which manages building systems within the airport terminal.
UltraControl provides a range of services from initial feasibility studies through to delivering complete operational SCADA solutions using commercial off-the-shelf products and open standards. UltraControl can be delivered with other airport operational systems as part of Ultra's integrated airport solution.
UltraBSI integrates the control and monitoring of systems such as heating and ventilation, lifts, escalators, airbridges, access control, CCTV and fire alarms at common multi-screened workstations, providing a standard intuitive user interface across all the various system types. It provides operators with a coordinated view of all the systems based on a floorplan of the building where appropriate, allowing operators to react to the information in the context of the location of the equipment concerned. It centralises alarm management, allowing proper prioritisation of faults and incidents, reducing operator workload and improving the efficiency of the operation. Interaction between systems, such as automatic display of CCTV images associated with an incident, can be handled by UltraBSI. The system can interface to Maintenance Management Systems, to provide an automated fault reporting capability, and to instigate condition-based maintenance programs.
UltraBSI can also form part of an integrated Energy Management Solution, by collating meter readings from electricity, gas, water and heat meters. Reports can be generated from the data to monitor conformance to both internal and statutory energy targets, and the data can be distributed to billing and energy management applications.
UltraBSI is currently installed in London Heathrow’s Terminal 5, where it monitors over 900,000 data points across 43,000 assets.
