Success Stories: Intelligent Buildings and Smart Spaces

Zentrum für Psychiatrie Südwürttemberg (ZfP)
Südwürttemberg, Germany

Photo: Ernst Fesseler

About Zentrum für Psychiatrie
Südwürttemberg (ZfP)The Zentrum für Psychiatrie Südwürttemberg (ZfP) [Centerfor Psychiatry Südwürttemberg] (https://www.zfp-web.de),located in Südwürttemberg, Germany, offers a differentiatedand comprehensive help system for mentally ill patients,
focusing on innovative forms of treatment and professionalcare. The ZfP has a social mandate to advise, treat, andcare for people with mental, psychosomatic, and neurologicalillnesses and impairments. Located between Stuttgart andLake Constance (in South Germany), the ZfP serves approximately 1.8 million inhabitants in nine administrative districts.
ZfP Südwürttemberg is one of the largest service providers
in its region. Every year, around 17,000 patients are treatedas inpatients and more than 40,000 as outpatients. The nonprofit organization operates specialist clinics, outpatient
departments, and medical care centers. The ZfP also works

ZfP’s Bad Schussenried Property Overview Display

with almost 650 home-based locations, more than 200
outpatient assisted living facilities, an outpatient nursing

service, and almost 600 sheltered workplaces/workshops
for the disabled.

Project Summary
The center considers a high building standard as enormously
important to guarantee the appropriate patient environment
for the best possible treatment and care. However, for thegroup’s 157 buildings, this objective can only be achieved
with the most modern and technologically advanced building control technology. The prior building management
software solution, with approximately 15,000 data points,
as well as 500 overview and plant displays, eventually failed
to live up to the expectations of the Administration andits multiple locations. The obsolete system was unable toprocess the required large amounts of data as desired.
Data analysis was often delayed and would not show theBuilding Equipment Overview and Status

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current state of the building’s environmental conditions.
Updates of the existing software were not possible, anddevelopment felt frozen in regard to HTML5 programming.
These attributes frequently led to emergency staff meetings.

ICONICS Software Deployed
The ZfP chose system integrator/distributor MESALOGIC(https://mesalogic.de) of Merneberg, Germany to manage
the system upgrade. MESALOGIC chose ICONICS software
for its new, more modern building control system andin particular selected the following ICONICS platforms:
ICONICS GENESIS64™ HMI/SCADA and building automation
suite, Hyper Historian™ rapid data historian, and KPIWorX™
self-service dashboard application for real-time andhistorical data.

Realized Benefits of the System
GENESIS64 is now responsible for visualizing the processdata of the whole instrumentation and control engineeringsystem (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 theadded benefit of being able to access the software fromanywhere via web browser or mobile app.
Control processes are optimized with the aid of historical
process data, and energy flows are recorded for higherlevel 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 commentsfrom trends and current setpoint changes from plant displays in a SQL Server database, while also providing theability 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 anautomatic email notification to a selected group of recipients.
The biggest challenge of the project was the large numberof buildings spread across the region. In order to centrallycontrol 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 accessto all information via web browser. With the ICONICS andMESALOGIC 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 datafrom ZfP’s old system was ported to GENESIS64 with theassistance of MESALOGIC’s mechatronics and IT teams andsome clever programming.
Following MESALOGIC’s installation of ICONICS building
controls software, ZfP has benefitted from transforming its
old, faulty system into a new, modern, and technologicallystate-of-the-art visualization system. This migration
was done in one step, so that a seamless transition andunrestricted use of GENESIS64 was made possible withoutmajor downtime.

Conclusion
The initial GENESIS64 deployment covered 127 out of 157
of ZfP’s buildings, with the remainder being brought
online over time. ICONICS has allowed the ZfP to control
and manage its buildings to provide an environment forthe 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 thesystem based on HTML5.

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