Case Studies

3rd tallest residential building managed on one network thanks to Niagara Framework.  Over 4,000 points integrated onto one network at Dubai’s 21st Century Tower.

• The world’s  3^rd tallest apartment block at 53 storeys and 269m high.
• 300 three-bedroom and 100 two-bedroom apartments offer over 71,000m2 of luxury living space.
• Over 1800 locally controlled fan coil units, fed with chilled water via a variable flow system, provide comfort cooling.
• Air handling, pump, power, fire detection, security and other services are distributed in Basement, Mezzanine,
• 9th Floor, 30th Floor and 53rd Floor plant rooms throughout the building.
• Adjoining nine storey car park is home to five huge 525 ton water-cooled chillers, cooling towers, additional pumps and electrical substations.

• Rapid, comprehensive and successful integration of the tower’s complex range of building services equipment.

• Market-leading NIAGARA Framework as the system architecture.
• NIAGARA FrameworkTM embedded within four JACE 512 series controllers.
• Web-based remote access to the control system for engineering, monitoring and supervision.

• Services designed to operate on independent BACNET, LONWORKS® and Modbus control bus networks, are now all connected in a single, open, interoperable and remotely accessible web-based control environment.
• Graphical information is served up as HTML pages to ensure that supervisory actions can easily take place through any secure-access internet connection.
• Impressive degree of sub-system interoperability.