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	Customer Success Story: The Pentagon ICONICS

Customer Success Story: The Pentagon

ICONICS

Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems
Applicable Industries	National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions	Facility Management
Use Cases	Building Automation & Control Predictive Maintenance
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	The Pentagon, the world's largest office building complex, houses over 23,000 employees and is the headquarters for the United States Department of Defense operations. The building is undergoing a renovation project that includes systems for HVAC, fire, security, lighting, IT/Telco critical monitoring, water systems, and hazardous agent monitoring. The challenge was to design a system that could monitor and access all these systems from a main screen in three operator actions or less. The system needed to be able to access any system, on any floor, in any one of the Pentagon’s five wedges, and from any one of the Pentagon’s five rings. Read More
About Customer	The Pentagon is the headquarters for the United States of America’s Department of Defense operations. It houses more than 23,000 employees, both military and civilian, all contributing to the planning and execution of the defense of the United States. With over 6.5 million square feet under one roof, the Pentagon is the world’s largest office building complex. It has three times the floor space of the Empire State Building in New York City. The United States Capitol building would fit into any one of the Pentagon’s five wedge-shaped sections. Read More
Solution	O&M Engineering, Inc. worked closely with the Pentagon to develop a solution using ICONICS GENESIS32™, a web-enabled, OPC-integrated HMI/SCADA suite, and the AlarmWorX™32 Alarm Management System. They created a system of cascading pop-up menus with sub-menus for each of the systems, placed over an enhanced aerial graphic of the building. Navigating to a given system within the building reveals rich and functionally accurate 3-D representations of the controls system information complete with animations. The system is monitored around the clock in the Pentagon’s Building Operations Command Center (BOCC). In addition to the individual workstations for each operator, five 90-inch displays provide wall-to-wall monitoring. Read More Log in to view content
Contents

Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems

Applicable Industries

National Security & Defense

Applicable Functions

Facility Management

Use Cases

Building Automation & Control

Predictive Maintenance

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

The Pentagon, the world's largest office building complex, houses over 23,000 employees and is the headquarters for the United States Department of Defense operations. The building is undergoing a renovation project that includes systems for HVAC, fire, security, lighting, IT/Telco critical monitoring, water systems, and hazardous agent monitoring. The challenge was to design a system that could monitor and access all these systems from a main screen in three operator actions or less. The system needed to be able to access any system, on any floor, in any one of the Pentagon’s five wedges, and from any one of the Pentagon’s five rings.

About Customer

The Pentagon is the headquarters for the United States of America’s Department of Defense operations. It houses more than 23,000 employees, both military and civilian, all contributing to the planning and execution of the defense of the United States. With over 6.5 million square feet under one roof, the Pentagon is the world’s largest office building complex. It has three times the floor space of the Empire State Building in New York City. The United States Capitol building would fit into any one of the Pentagon’s five wedge-shaped sections.

Solution

O&M Engineering, Inc. worked closely with the Pentagon to develop a solution using ICONICS GENESIS32™, a web-enabled, OPC-integrated HMI/SCADA suite, and the AlarmWorX™32 Alarm Management System. They created a system of cascading pop-up menus with sub-menus for each of the systems, placed over an enhanced aerial graphic of the building. Navigating to a given system within the building reveals rich and functionally accurate 3-D representations of the controls system information complete with animations. The system is monitored around the clock in the Pentagon’s Building Operations Command Center (BOCC). In addition to the individual workstations for each operator, five 90-inch displays provide wall-to-wall monitoring.

Impact #1	The system allows for quick and easy access to any system, on any floor, in any one of the Pentagon’s five wedges, and from any one of the Pentagon’s five rings.
Impact #2	The system provides rich and functionally accurate 3-D representations of the controls system information complete with animations.
Impact #3	The system is monitored around the clock in the Pentagon’s Building Operations Command Center (BOCC).

Impact #1

The system allows for quick and easy access to any system, on any floor, in any one of the Pentagon’s five wedges, and from any one of the Pentagon’s five rings.

Impact #2

The system provides rich and functionally accurate 3-D representations of the controls system information complete with animations.

Impact #3

The system is monitored around the clock in the Pentagon’s Building Operations Command Center (BOCC).

Benefit #1	The system will potentially exceed a half-million points of information.

Benefit #1

The system will potentially exceed a half-million points of information.

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Customer Success Story: The Pentagon

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