Challenge
Amos Rex is built underground, which creates particularly demanding conditions. Humidity and room temperature are maintained steady by monitoring and adjusting.
Fidelix’s reliable building automation system guarantees a long life cycle for all types and sizes of buildings. The system controls a building’s heating, ventilation and lighting according to needs and circumstances, and the precisely tuned building automation system even significantly improves the building’s energy efficiency. In big popular public spaces, the building technology works inconspicuously.
Building automation systems require remote access for effortless monitoring and adjusting of building technology. The end users of the systems include for instance maintenance companies, so ease of use and information security were important criteria for the solution. After construction period, the building automation system of the Central Library Oodi would be connected to the City of Helsinki’s network, but a secure remote access was needed also in the construction phase for programming and testing the system.
Solution
In the final phase, remote adjustments and measurements were made that each saved a few hours of work and travel time. Instead of traveling from the office to the center of Helsinki, a pump or a valve could be opened remotely in a matter of minutes.
TOSIBOX® IoT connectivity technology is widely recognized as the industry standard in building automation, where secure connectivity is paramount. TOSIBOX® Lock secures the building automation system as its firewall prevents all unnecessary transmission of data. Fidelix takes secure remote connectivity seriously and has chosen the TOSIBOX® solution for both establishing remote access and monitoring the performance of building automation systems. Oodi and Amos Rex are just two examples of hundreds of Fidelix’s sites whose building automation is secured by TOSIBOX®.
Once the construction work progressed and electricity was provided to the sub-centers at Oodi and Amos Rex, Fidelix was able to program and test its building automation systems remotely using TOSIBOX®. Even with a mechanic on site, programming can be carried out remotely. In the final phase, remote adjustments and measurements were made that each saved a few hours of work and travel time. Instead of traveling from the office to the center of Helsinki, a pump or a valve could be opened remotely in a matter of minutes.
Fidelix has granted access rights for using TOSIBOX® to its own project personnel as well as to the sites’ builders and customers who can follow the implementation by logging in. The remote access is also being used to collect data in Fidelix’s control room.