A trial of simulator for building management systems

Modern office buildings, most of them are called intelligent/smart buildings, are required to be equipped with precise, flexible and reliable Building Management Systems (BMSs) to improve the comfort and safety for the occupants. Therefore, for BMSs, it is becoming important to achieve quick and accurate responses under given conditions; however, we are actually faced with some cases which show a great difference between the specifications and the measured characteristics of the completed system. The larger the buildings are and the more complicated the BMSs are, the more important it is to evaluate and/or estimate the response time and response characteristics of the BMSs. The need for a simulator which evaluates the response time and characteristics of a BMS, utilizing the data generally obtained is proposed. An outline of the simulator is shown and the similarity of the simulated values and the measured values of BMSs which were actually installed and the effectiveness of the simulator is discussed