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	Customer Success Story: BAA/Heathrow Airport T5 Terminal ICONICS

Customer Success Story: BAA/Heathrow Airport T5 Terminal

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries	Transportation
Applicable Functions	Facility Management
Use Cases	Building Automation & Control Process Control & Optimization
Services	System Integration
Challenge	The T5 Terminal at London’s Heathrow Airport was one of Europe’s largest construction projects, funded by BAA at £4.2 billion. The terminal was designed to be a fully integrated facility, monitored through a central Terminal Service Centre (TSC) and mobile devices. A common user interface was needed to access heating, ventilation, lighting, fire, elevator, CCTV, and security systems as well as to centralize alarm management and automate system interaction. At its opening, T5 included over 50 different systems, producing a massive tag count of over 3 million. In addition, by using open industry standards based on OPC, the resulting architecture has been designed to provide flexibility for future expansion and integration, as required by the customer. Read More
About Customer	The T5 Terminal at London’s Heathrow Airport was one of Europe’s largest construction projects, funded by BAA at £4.2 billion. Initial planning for the facility, with a planned capacity of moving 30 million passengers a year, began in 1985 leading to a national design competition in 1989, then a four-year public inquiry, the longest ever on record. Permission was granted in November 2001 to begin development, a major step in providing BAA its first new gateway at Heathrow since Terminal 4 opened in 1986. Construction of T5 remained steady and on time as the terminal’s March 30, 2008 opening day approached. BAA sought a comprehensive solution to deliver a very intelligent control room to operate the new T5 Terminal. Read More
Solution	ICONICS GENESIS32™ OPC Web-enabled HMI/ SCADA suite was selected by Ultra Electronics Airport Systems, a “first-tier” supplier for T5’s Building System Integration (BSI) and the BAA Systems Team. The ICONICS platform as implemented by Ultra provides better information to the users than any previously designed model, allowing the terminal operators to respond more quickly to changes and situations. It provides a global view of all operations within the building and allows drill down, by pan and zoom, to any asset or area of interest. Allowing connectivity with many industrial devices and control systems through a common interface, OPC was fundamental to achieving seamless integration within the BSI and giving users the ability to both see and react to cause and effect within the terminal. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Applicable Industries

Transportation

Applicable Functions

Facility Management

Use Cases

Building Automation & Control

Process Control & Optimization

Services

System Integration

Challenge

The T5 Terminal at London’s Heathrow Airport was one of Europe’s largest construction projects, funded by BAA at £4.2 billion. The terminal was designed to be a fully integrated facility, monitored through a central Terminal Service Centre (TSC) and mobile devices. A common user interface was needed to access heating, ventilation, lighting, fire, elevator, CCTV, and security systems as well as to centralize alarm management and automate system interaction. At its opening, T5 included over 50 different systems, producing a massive tag count of over 3 million. In addition, by using open industry standards based on OPC, the resulting architecture has been designed to provide flexibility for future expansion and integration, as required by the customer.

About Customer

The T5 Terminal at London’s Heathrow Airport was one of Europe’s largest construction projects, funded by BAA at £4.2 billion. Initial planning for the facility, with a planned capacity of moving 30 million passengers a year, began in 1985 leading to a national design competition in 1989, then a four-year public inquiry, the longest ever on record. Permission was granted in November 2001 to begin development, a major step in providing BAA its first new gateway at Heathrow since Terminal 4 opened in 1986. Construction of T5 remained steady and on time as the terminal’s March 30, 2008 opening day approached. BAA sought a comprehensive solution to deliver a very intelligent control room to operate the new T5 Terminal.

Solution

ICONICS GENESIS32™ OPC Web-enabled HMI/ SCADA suite was selected by Ultra Electronics Airport Systems, a “first-tier” supplier for T5’s Building System Integration (BSI) and the BAA Systems Team. The ICONICS platform as implemented by Ultra provides better information to the users than any previously designed model, allowing the terminal operators to respond more quickly to changes and situations. It provides a global view of all operations within the building and allows drill down, by pan and zoom, to any asset or area of interest. Allowing connectivity with many industrial devices and control systems through a common interface, OPC was fundamental to achieving seamless integration within the BSI and giving users the ability to both see and react to cause and effect within the terminal.

Impact #1	The ICONICS platform as implemented by Ultra provides better information to the users than any previously designed model, allowing the terminal operators to respond more quickly to changes and situations.
Impact #2	It provides a global view of all operations within the building and allows drill down, by pan and zoom, to any asset or area of interest.
Impact #3	Allowing connectivity with many industrial devices and control systems through a common interface, OPC was fundamental to achieving seamless integration within the BSI and giving users the ability to both see and react to cause and effect within the terminal.

Impact #1

The ICONICS platform as implemented by Ultra provides better information to the users than any previously designed model, allowing the terminal operators to respond more quickly to changes and situations.

Impact #2

It provides a global view of all operations within the building and allows drill down, by pan and zoom, to any asset or area of interest.

Impact #3

Allowing connectivity with many industrial devices and control systems through a common interface, OPC was fundamental to achieving seamless integration within the BSI and giving users the ability to both see and react to cause and effect within the terminal.

Benefit #1	Handled a massive tag count of over 3 million
Benefit #2	Integrated over 50 different systems

Benefit #1

Handled a massive tag count of over 3 million

Benefit #2

Integrated over 50 different systems

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Customer Success Story: BAA/Heathrow Airport T5 Terminal

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