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Zentrum für Psychiatrie Südwürttemberg
Challenges
- Obsolete system couldn't process 15,000 data points efficiently - caused delays in data analysis and frequent emergency staff meetings
- No software updates possible, development frozen on HTML5 - system failed to show current building environmental conditions
- Managing 157 buildings across region - needed to link 130 BACnet controls to 15,000 data points with secure web access
Outcomes
- Centralized monitoring of all 157 buildings from headquarters via web browser/mobile - seamless transition without major downtime
- Modern GENESIS system with drag-and-drop functions, extended alarm management, and 500+ displays showing real-time building status
- Optimized control processes using historical data for energy management - automatic email notifications for maintenance entries
About Zentrum für Psychiatrie Südwürttemberg (ZfP)
The Zentrum für Psychiatrie Südwürttemberg (ZfP) [Center for Psychiatry Südwürttemberg], located in Südwürttemberg, Germany, offers a differentiated and comprehensive help system for mentally ill patients, focusing on innovative forms of treatment and professional care. The ZfP has a social mandate to advise, treat, and care for people with mental, psychosomatic, and neurological illnesses and impairments. Located between Stuttgart and Lake Constance (in South Germany), the ZfP serves approximately 1.8 million inhabitants at more than 25 locations.
ZfP Südwürttemberg is one of the largest service providers in its region. Every year, around 19,000 patients are treated as inpatients and more than 45,000 as outpatients. The non-profit organization operates specialist clinics, outpatient departments, and medical care centers. The ZfP also works with almost 650 home-based locations, more than 500 outpatient assisted living facilities, an outpatient nursing service, and almost 600 sheltered workplaces/workshops for the disabled.
ZfP’s Bad Schussenried Property Overview Display
System Integration
The ZfP chose system integrator/distributor MESALOGIC of Merneberg, Germany to manage the system upgrade. MESALOGIC chose Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions' GENESIS software for its new, more modern building control system and in particular selected the following platforms: GENESIS64™ HMI/SCADA and building automation suite, Hyper Historian™ rapid data historian, and KPIWorX™ self-service dashboard application for real-time and historical data.
Building Equipment Overview and Status
Realized Benefits
GENESIS64 is now responsible for visualizing the process data of the whole instrumentation and control engineering system (including heating, ventilation, and air conditioning). Facility management personnel use the system to centrally monitor and coordinate all 157 buildings from ZfP’s administrative headquarters in Bad Schussenried, with the added benefit of being able to access the software from anywhere via web browser or mobile app.
Control processes are optimized with the aid of historical process data, and energy flows are recorded for higher level energy management. ZfP’s new portal now includes drag and drop functions for the approximately 15,000 data points, as well as extended alarm management. An additional MESALOGIC asset book, created to simplify daily work in facility management, combines user comments from trends and current setpoint changes from plant displays in a SQL Server database, while also providing the ability to manually input repair and maintenance data. The information from the multiple modules can be clearly displayed on a single screen for administrators or plant managers. If a manual entry is made, the system sends an automatic email notification to a selected group of recipients.
Historical Trend of Steam Boiler Data
The biggest challenge of the project was the large number of buildings spread across the region. In order to centrally control the buildings from the administrative headquarters in Bad Schussenried, 130 BACnet controls had to be linked to 15,000 data points, while also ensuring secure access to all information via web browser. With the GENESIS and MESALOGIC installed solutions, more than 500 displays can now show the current state of any of the buildings across ZfP’s portfolio. In addition, a large portion of data from ZfP’s old system was ported to GENESIS64 with the assistance of MESALOGIC’s mechatronics and IT teams and some clever programming.
Following MESALOGIC’s installation of Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions' building controls software, ZfP has benefitted from transforming its old, faulty system into a new, modern, and technologically state-of-the-art visualization system. This migration was done in one step, so that a seamless transition and unrestricted use of GENESIS64 was made possible without major downtime.
Conclusion
The initial GENESIS deployment covered 127 out of 157 of ZfP’s buildings, with the remainder being brought online over time. GENESIS has allowed the ZfP to control and manage its buildings to provide an environment for the best possible treatment and care for its patients. MESALOGIC continues to support the ZfP as an IT service provider and additionally supports different modules, carries out special programming, and deploys system extensions. ZfP’s future plans include an expansion of the system based on HTML5.
