Electromobility in building automation: E-mobility becomes part of building IoT

In automated industrial buildings, supplies and loads are linked – the building manager must purchase electricity at low prices and provide it to all loads in the connected network.At its company location in Bad Pyrmont, Phoenix Contact Electronics demonstrates how the charging management software Charx manage can be advantageously integrated into building management.“Building automation is the heart of facility management at our site,” explains Frank Schröder, Head of Facility Management at Phoenix Contact Electronics in Bad Pyrmont, Lower Saxony, “all the threads come together in the technical room.”Schröder's tasks include the energy supply of the company location that includes production facilities in three-shift operation.He is also responsible for the connection of the electric and hybrid vehicles. “Our facility in Bad Pyrmont includes four buildings with over 1,500 employees, and we generate 60% of our electricity in our in-house co-generation plant,” Schröder explains.“We use the waste heat to heat the buildings and generate cooling in the process. We store this in the sprinkler tank, use it to cool the buildings and supply the cooling water for production. On the roof, we use a PV system and an electricity storage system.” It is a highly complex network, with many different interacting factors.