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COBA

Presentation for the press, 13.11.2000

Tuomas Koskenranta

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Could it be possible, that:

• The building orders for itself the nearest maintenance service, security guard or maintenance part when needed, or tells the cleaning personnel that the negotiation room is now empty

• The devices from different providers are behind the same WWW or WAP interface, and typical situations are generated automatically

• Building industry develops a Linux-like common, shared network operating system into building automation

• The main principles of the system can already be demonstrated

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COBA architecture

LON network

Modem

Telephone network

Site C

Site AInternet

User 4

User 3

Water counters

Other building automation:-doors, fans, lights, saunas, electricity counters

District heating substation

Time schedule

User 5

Site B

Connectionserver

WAPgateway

Mobile network

Libraryserver

JAVA-serverLON

server3D/2D-server

e-brokerserver

Locationserver

Home module

Intranet

User 1

User 2

Bluetooth

User 6

Mobileportal

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Roles of project members Buildingautomation

Industrialautomation

Homeautomation OEM products

Field devices

Electronics

Data communication

User interfaces

Integration

Telecom

Internete-technologies

LON portals

Mobile portals

Users

Air-Ix

ABB

NCC

Valtion kiinteistölaitos

Elisa

Fortum

YIT-Huber

Lonix SOL

+more coming...

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Summary - project goals

• Building automation will be turned open (LON, internet)

• Using building automation through mobile device is an automatic feature, both locally (Bluetooth) and remotely (WAP/SMS)

• Both fixed and mobile connections can be utilized

• Project results will be applied for the needs of installation, facility usage and management, in areas of home automation, building automation and industrial automation

• Increased module production volumes, lower prices

• New networked e-business value chains in service production, with automatic connection to services

• Positioning of the user and location of the automation devices are utilized in systems and services