Intuitive touch panels give easy access to Siemens Desigo BMS

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Siemens Building Technologies offers two intuitive touch panels to provide interaction with its Desigo building-management system. There are two Design Touch & Web panels (10 and 15 in sizes) offering an easy way to access information on building plant, The newly developed web interface adds browser-controlled plant operation.

Users who are logged in can use the graphical interface to navigate through different plants. The scheduling program and trend view can also be operated with the touch panels. Time programs can be accessed to optimise energy consumption. Users can also view and acknowledge system faults.

Selected data points can be added to a favourites list for quick access. The most important values are displayed on a summary page even when users are not logged in.

Desigo Touch & Web uses a web-enabled interface that allows users to monitor plant from a web browser on a notebook PC or table. Web-interface engineering is done using the Desigo Xworks Plus software, so the interface can be customised.

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