ICONICS Case Studies Oceanium at Diergaarde Blijdorp Zoo

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Oceanium at Diergaarde Blijdorp Zoo

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Networks & Connectivity - Network Management & Analysis Software
Applicable Industries	Buildings
Applicable Functions	Facility Management
Use Cases	Building Automation & Control Water Utility Management
Services	System Integration
Challenge	The Oceanium at Diergaarde Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam, Netherlands, houses a variety of marine life, including sharks, tropical fish, corals, king penguins, sea lions, and polar bears. To maintain a safe and healthy environment for these animals, the Oceanium's water is regularly refreshed. This process requires large filter installations that are controlled by multiple Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). The PLCs ensure that the water is pumped exactly where it needs to be and that the filter systems function flawlessly. However, the Oceanium's older PLCs had reached end-of-life and needed to be replaced. Along with the new PLCs, the Oceanium also recognized the need for a new Human-Machine Interface/Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (HMI/SCADA) installation to visualize the data from these connected systems. Read More
About Customer	The Oceanium is a part of the Diergaarde Blijdorp Zoo located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It is a 'water world' that houses a variety of marine life, including a whale exposition, a public laboratory, a coral reef, a kelp forest, a bird rock, and, what many visitors consider the most impressive, enormous sharks. The Oceanium's water consists entirely of clean sea water, which is regularly refreshed for the inhabitants of its exhibits. Every month, nearly five percent of the Oceanium's water is refreshed so that the sharks, tropical fish, corals, king penguins, sea lions, and polar bears can safely swim around. The Oceanium uses large filter installations to change the water in such installations in order to keep them habitable for the animals. Read More
Solution	The Oceanium, in collaboration with system integrator Koning & Hartman, selected ICONICS GENESIS64™ HMI/SCADA and building automation software suite and Mitsubishi IQ-F series PLCs to replace the older systems. The new PLCs help ensure that the filter systems within the Oceanium run flawlessly. The ICONICS GENESIS64 software suite helps monitor and manage the Oceanium's multiple connected operations. It provides real-time insight into the status of all animal enclosures within the Oceanium, generates alarms if something goes wrong in one of the accommodations, and can provide a trend overview of, for example, the water level of the shark tank over the past year. The system also allows employees to view the current status of the processes in the Oceanium via their smartphones. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Networks & Connectivity - Network Management & Analysis Software

Applicable Industries

Buildings

Applicable Functions

Facility Management

Use Cases

Building Automation & Control

Water Utility Management

Services

System Integration

Challenge

The Oceanium at Diergaarde Blijdorp Zoo in Rotterdam, Netherlands, houses a variety of marine life, including sharks, tropical fish, corals, king penguins, sea lions, and polar bears. To maintain a safe and healthy environment for these animals, the Oceanium's water is regularly refreshed. This process requires large filter installations that are controlled by multiple Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). The PLCs ensure that the water is pumped exactly where it needs to be and that the filter systems function flawlessly. However, the Oceanium's older PLCs had reached end-of-life and needed to be replaced. Along with the new PLCs, the Oceanium also recognized the need for a new Human-Machine Interface/Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (HMI/SCADA) installation to visualize the data from these connected systems.

About Customer

The Oceanium is a part of the Diergaarde Blijdorp Zoo located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It is a 'water world' that houses a variety of marine life, including a whale exposition, a public laboratory, a coral reef, a kelp forest, a bird rock, and, what many visitors consider the most impressive, enormous sharks. The Oceanium's water consists entirely of clean sea water, which is regularly refreshed for the inhabitants of its exhibits. Every month, nearly five percent of the Oceanium's water is refreshed so that the sharks, tropical fish, corals, king penguins, sea lions, and polar bears can safely swim around. The Oceanium uses large filter installations to change the water in such installations in order to keep them habitable for the animals.

Solution

The Oceanium, in collaboration with system integrator Koning & Hartman, selected ICONICS GENESIS64™ HMI/SCADA and building automation software suite and Mitsubishi IQ-F series PLCs to replace the older systems. The new PLCs help ensure that the filter systems within the Oceanium run flawlessly. The ICONICS GENESIS64 software suite helps monitor and manage the Oceanium's multiple connected operations. It provides real-time insight into the status of all animal enclosures within the Oceanium, generates alarms if something goes wrong in one of the accommodations, and can provide a trend overview of, for example, the water level of the shark tank over the past year. The system also allows employees to view the current status of the processes in the Oceanium via their smartphones.

Impact #1	Real-time insight into the status of all animal enclosures within the Oceanium.
Impact #2	Generation of alarms if something goes wrong in one of the accommodations.
Impact #3	Ability to provide a trend overview of, for example, the water level of the shark tank over the past year.

Impact #1

Real-time insight into the status of all animal enclosures within the Oceanium.

Impact #2

Generation of alarms if something goes wrong in one of the accommodations.

Impact #3

Ability to provide a trend overview of, for example, the water level of the shark tank over the past year.

Benefit #1	Every month, nearly five percent of the Oceanium's water is refreshed.

Benefit #1

Every month, nearly five percent of the Oceanium's water is refreshed.

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Oceanium at Diergaarde Blijdorp Zoo

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