OTTO provides Connected Commissioning and Automated Functional Testing Services for commissioning providers.
Plug a cellular-enabled gateway into the BAS network (no on-site internet required) and get as much or as little trend data as you want, as much or as little automated testing, as much or as little fault detection, on anything connected to the BAS.
Seeing how equipment operates on a continuous basis is necessary to assure an owner that their requirements are being met.
Without such visibility, a commissioning provider is severely handicapped. Until recently, providing commissioning services with fuzzy, intermittent, and short-term inspection, was the norm.
Through a combination of encrypted cellular networking and powerful analytics software, commissioning providers can now have Connected Commissioning on any project with a control system (also referred to as a Building Automation System, or BAS).
What is Connected Commissioning?
The most basic building block of Connected Commissioning is trend-data, where a continuous connection to the BAS enables a high volume of trend-data to be collected and visualized for use by the commissioning provider and other stakeholders.
Besides trend-data, Connected Commissioning can include the following, depending on project goals:
Automated Functional Testing
Active Functional Testing
Automated Fault Detection
Passive Functional Testing
Trend Data Collection and Visualization
Independent of the BAS vendor, gain the ultimate in visibility with OTTO’s Trend-Data Collection and Visualization service.
A-la-carte or as part of the OTTO Data Plan, plug a cellular-enabled gateway into your project’s BAS network and instantly provide greater value to your customer. Plug it in during your TAB verification site visit and leave it connected to the BAS as long as you want.
The days of compiling hundreds of CSV files or looking at one or two trends in a clumsy BAS interface are over. Consistently get high volume trend-data collection and easily review with OTTO’s trend-viewer, powered by SkySpark.
Don’t wonder how (or if) systems are operating. See in real-time if air is flowing, if the boiler system is producing hot water, what’s online or what’s not.
Automated Functional Testing
Automate your most repetitive testing needs with OTTO’s Automated Functional Testing service.
Forget about minimizing your time spent on each terminal unit to 30 minutes or so. Instead, you could automatically run every single device through a rigorous 6-hour test protocol customized the way you want it to happen. Now you can see and test things you normally couldn’t afford to do.
OTTO will automatically execute BAS overrides (independent of the BAS vendor) to force the various modes you need to test, then automatically answer your functional questions on how the equipment performed. OTTO supports a wide variety of control sequences and will customize each test for your specific project needs.
Schedule testing on nights or weekends to avoid getting in the way of other construction activities. Run as many re-tests as you need (after all, how many times do they work right the first time?).
Automated Fault Detection
Some clients want you to help on an ongoing basis to keep their systems operating the best they can.
Or you may want to keep tabs on specific issues prior to construction close-out/hand-off. Make it easier to find common issues automatically with OTTO’s Automated Fault Detection service.
Fault detection is a passive way of ensuring proper equipment operation, where equipment is simply monitored over time and constantly checked for specific issues. Automated Fault Detection can be used for new construction or existing building applications.
- Make it a part of your warranty-phase service
- Offer ongoing Monitoring-Based Commissioning services
- Use as part of a Retro-Commissioning investigation