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	Customer Success Story: Museum of Krapina Neanderthals ICONICS

Customer Success Story: Museum of Krapina Neanderthals

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Networks & Connectivity - Ethernet
Applicable Industries	Education
Applicable Functions	Facility Management
Use Cases	Building Automation & Control Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services	System Integration
Challenge	The Museum of Krapina Neanderthals, located in northern Croatia, required a solution to integrate and automate its building management systems, security systems, and multimedia systems. The museum, which is technologically oriented and extraordinarily equipped for multimedia presentations, needed a system that could handle data acquisition and aggregation, analysis and alarming, visualization, and real-time status of installations and components. The challenge was to harmoniously integrate, coordinate, and automate these diverse subsystems, which included computers, projectors, MPEG players, audio, video and scenting equipment, electrical branch circuits and lighting, metal curtains, HVAC, Siemens fire system, and Honeywell intrusion system. Read More
About Customer	The Museum of Krapina Neanderthals is located in a glen between two small hills near the modern city of Krapina, in northern Croatia. The museum represents the spectacular Krapina site, where a Neanderthal village was discovered in 1899 by Dragutin Gorjanovic. The archeological site, one of the richest and most heterogeneous in the world, had over eight hundred fossil remains of 75 Neanderthals and their tools and weapons. Opened in February 2010, visitors to the museum’s 1,200 square meter exhibition space experience a simulation of the way of life in a Neanderthal cave 130 thousand years ago. Through touch screens, video-walls and numerous audio, visual and scent installations, visitors enjoy a highly interactive museum experience. The Museum of Krapina Neanderthals is technologically oriented and extraordinarily equipped for multimedia presentations enabling an engaging visitor experience. Read More
Solution	ICONICS and ECCOS inženjering developed a unique solution for visualization and control of the Museum of Krapina Neanderthals. The ICONICS GENESIS32™ HMI/ SCADA suite was deployed to connect and automate the museum’s building management systems, security systems, and multimedia systems. The system was enabled with data acquisition and aggregation, analysis and alarming, visualization, and real-time status of installations and components. All of these were accessible through a single personal computer with a simplified and reliable graphical interface. At the core of the system, ICONICS GENESIS32, using Matrikon’s OPC server and a Schneider Electric M340 PLC, integrates to establish full supervision and control over all the electronic and electrical systems. The vast majority of communication is based on the local Ethernet network, while the PLC is connected with security and BMS systems through digital/analog inputs and outputs. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Networks & Connectivity - Ethernet

Applicable Industries

Education

Applicable Functions

Facility Management

Use Cases

Building Automation & Control

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

System Integration

Challenge

The Museum of Krapina Neanderthals, located in northern Croatia, required a solution to integrate and automate its building management systems, security systems, and multimedia systems. The museum, which is technologically oriented and extraordinarily equipped for multimedia presentations, needed a system that could handle data acquisition and aggregation, analysis and alarming, visualization, and real-time status of installations and components. The challenge was to harmoniously integrate, coordinate, and automate these diverse subsystems, which included computers, projectors, MPEG players, audio, video and scenting equipment, electrical branch circuits and lighting, metal curtains, HVAC, Siemens fire system, and Honeywell intrusion system.

About Customer

The Museum of Krapina Neanderthals is located in a glen between two small hills near the modern city of Krapina, in northern Croatia. The museum represents the spectacular Krapina site, where a Neanderthal village was discovered in 1899 by Dragutin Gorjanovic. The archeological site, one of the richest and most heterogeneous in the world, had over eight hundred fossil remains of 75 Neanderthals and their tools and weapons. Opened in February 2010, visitors to the museum’s 1,200 square meter exhibition space experience a simulation of the way of life in a Neanderthal cave 130 thousand years ago. Through touch screens, video-walls and numerous audio, visual and scent installations, visitors enjoy a highly interactive museum experience. The Museum of Krapina Neanderthals is technologically oriented and extraordinarily equipped for multimedia presentations enabling an engaging visitor experience.

Solution

ICONICS and ECCOS inženjering developed a unique solution for visualization and control of the Museum of Krapina Neanderthals. The ICONICS GENESIS32™ HMI/ SCADA suite was deployed to connect and automate the museum’s building management systems, security systems, and multimedia systems. The system was enabled with data acquisition and aggregation, analysis and alarming, visualization, and real-time status of installations and components. All of these were accessible through a single personal computer with a simplified and reliable graphical interface. At the core of the system, ICONICS GENESIS32, using Matrikon’s OPC server and a Schneider Electric M340 PLC, integrates to establish full supervision and control over all the electronic and electrical systems. The vast majority of communication is based on the local Ethernet network, while the PLC is connected with security and BMS systems through digital/analog inputs and outputs.

Impact #1	The system simplifies everyday control, reducing a complicated system to several keyboard commands, making the system accessible and controllable for users with little technological knowledge.
Impact #2	The system provides full supervision and control over all the electronic and electrical systems.
Impact #3	The system enables data acquisition and aggregation, analysis and alarming, visualization, and real-time status of installations and components.

Impact #1

The system simplifies everyday control, reducing a complicated system to several keyboard commands, making the system accessible and controllable for users with little technological knowledge.

Impact #2

The system provides full supervision and control over all the electronic and electrical systems.

Impact #3

The system enables data acquisition and aggregation, analysis and alarming, visualization, and real-time status of installations and components.

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Customer Success Story: Museum of Krapina Neanderthals

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