CNS Services

"It's not just about the building's structure, It's about the substance, Its impact on the people and the environment it shares" - Mike Welch 2005

CNS's Team is evolving into a specialist supplier of M2M, Convergent, CCRE solutions for 21^st Century buildings to the global market. It brings together in a seamless manner the world of ICT and Building Management, Building Automation systems or as we more openly describe it "Building Facilities sub-systems". We create an integrated information infrastructure combining hardware, software and Open/De-facto Standards communication protocols to allow connectivity of any intelligent device in the building with any other as well as exchanging value data between the building facilities sub systems and the clients' business/enterprise applications.

This offers - Client ownership and access to valuable information about and from the facilities they rent/lease or own Seamless connectivity of that data into existing client business applications for serious real-time business management Seamless access to business data in real-time by facilities control systems for added sophistication and granularity of plant control.

Initial work in these areas has seen CNS adopt the web convergent Niagara AX platform from Tridium Inc. as the technology platform of choice to deliver this vision. We have also engaged with other well-known technology companies to support CNS in this delivery.

CNS's Team through its unique collection of Engineering solution development skills is able based upon "Open or De facto" standards to offer -

• Design & consultancy

• Application and solutions development

• Products and solutions

This offers huge benefits for anyone owning or using a building if they are at all seriously interested in proper real-time business, energy usage and sustainability management. This enables potential to -

• Increase profits

• Reduce costs

• Meet and exceed regulatory requirements

• Improve User experience

• Reduce Client churn rate, improve client stickiness

Technologies include: Niagara AX® - Development, Appliances, Integration, MQTT® implementation and deployment, Web services - XML, Open/Defacto Protocols - oBix, BacNet, LonWorks®, SNMP, OPC, ModBus, DALI®, Business integration - virtually any well-known enterprise or business application can be integrated.

Initial work in these areas has involved us in a growing number of projects including Heron Towers (a London city development); Sarasota Bayside (a Sarasota Florida development); Lend Lease etc.

Some of the potential benefits are -

• automated billing

• performance management by exception

• energy cost management

• real-time purchasing information

• enhanced plant control strategies

• multi-site management

and much more, offering "strategies for the most efficient use of equipment to meet operational needs of the business" based upon Open/De-facto Standards.