International. Johnson Controls launched a new building automation system called Metasys 9.0 that offers substantial improvements to the reference product line, including two new controllers with IP/Ethernet connectivity and a user interface that makes it even easier to query critical information and troubleshoot problems.
The fact that the two new BACnet IP field equipment controllers communicate over Ethernet IP networks helps improve network performance and bandwidth, making integrations easier. It also helps reduce the total cost of ownership of the Metasys system, as customers will be able to share IT resources and infrastructures and ensure they face future challenges and developments of BAS connections using Ethernet cabling. Both devices are approved by BTL as Advanced Application BACnet Controllers (B-AAC), include a real-time clock for programming, alarm and trend management, and support star-track cabling topologies or daisy-chain connections.
"Metasys 9.0 is the result of dialogue, attention to feedback and observation from building operators who had used previous versions of Metasys," says Don Albinger, vice president and global general manager, Controls, Johnson Controls. "With this release we are responding to the demand for a customized system that adapts to customers' operational styles and needs, that is even easier to operate, easily accessible and agile to generate information. Resulting in an improvement of the Metasys system, obtaining greater productivity, operational savings and lower installation costs."
The enhanced universal entry (UI) system includes a Building Network component, with which all objects defined in the Metasys component hierarchy can be accessed, to maintain a common and familiar experience of navigation and status definition. The Building Network view does not require any configuration, which speeds up the delivery of the Metasys UI. Another enhancement, the Advanced Search and Reporting System, allows operators to quickly query information, generate reports, and issue bulk commands, making it easier to perform tasks in the process of obtaining critical Metasys system information and restoring the system.
