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Siloed Building Automation
Building automation and control systems are fragmented, locked down, slow, and hard to integrate, monitor, or maintain across vendors and sites.
In their words
The site if quite long (parcel courier sortation hub) so the distance to walk to see a fault code on HMI is quite onerous.
There appears to be no one on the Gold Coast willing to have a crack at it or has the right gear to do it.
I've run at least a half dozen "no cools" this summer to older folks who have no idea how to work their new link360 or iComfort thermostats
You can spend hours or days troubleshooting software, licensing, modules, databases, drivers, communication issues, and random bugs just to make a simple change
If you don't have their goofy symbols memorized you wind up wasting a ton of time.
have to manually do every single parameter with the keypad
I’m not sure that Unifi is really meant for that capacity even though their website says it can handle it.
They’ll expand the plant 2-3 times and at no point will they ever be willing to pay for a refresh on their distribution gear.
with N4 having a station that takes 5-10 minutes to boot up sucks. Having to reset my platform to change TCP/IP settings sucks.
Since we're beginners when it comes to the more technical/software side of things, it would also be great if they could help design the system.
I’ll go more insane not being able to turn off the mini splits that people tend to leave on.
In my mind this is a huge safety issue for startup. There is no visibility within the freezer from where the HMI is at.
I have this exact same problem. It's really the only annoying thing about my apartment. Would absolutely pay for an off the shelf solution to this problem.
He already put up small cabinet with cheap tuya controllers and needs to control them though atrocious app.
building automation integrators and technicians
Where they talk
- r/BuildingAutomation
- r/PLC
- r/homeassistant
- r/HVAC
- r/ShellyUSA
- r/Irrigation
- r/heatpumps
- r/CommercialAV
Tools they use today
- Home Assistant
- Niagara
- HMI
- JACE
- Crestron
- Hydrawise
- Modbus
- ABT
Why those fall short
- Interfaces too complex; Alexa integration reports false errors
- guests unplug the smart devices so they cannot be controlled remotely
- version/module mismatches, no live changes, unsupported web tech, per-point licenses
- controls ship with incomprehensible symbols and no text labels
- FPV and manual control only work locally, not over the internet
Map of ideas
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