Building Management Systems (BMS) are becoming increasingly critical in the push towards smarter, more energy-efficient buildings, which is why Automated Logic (ALC) showcased technologies designed for operational performance and long-term flexibility for building owners.
Speaking at the exhibition, Automated Logic’s business lead, Trevor Monaghan, said the company’s latest WebCTRL platform and ALC product range were designed around a simple principle – giving customers investment protection, reduced lifecycle costs, plus greater control over their own buildings, systems and data.
Automated Logic, A Carrier Company, specialises in building automation and management systems used across commercial real estate, healthcare, higher education, pharmaceutical facilities and mission-critical environments such as data centres.
At the centre of the company’s offering is WebCTRL, a building automation platform designed to manage heating, cooling, ventilation, energy monitoring and broader building operations through a unified interface.
According to Automated Logic, the platform is built around open BACnet protocols, not third-party integration frameworks allowing customers to avoid being locked into framework based systems.
“We’re a pure play BACnet stack BMS system,” Monaghan said. One of the company’s major points of difference was long term investment protection via backward compatibility, lower lifecycle costs, ensuring customers retained ownership and control of their operational data and engineering tools.
“We see it as very important that when a customer buys a BMS system that they’re not beholden to a change of technology that we commonly see in framework-based systems,” Additionally having a native open architecture, deploying BACnet/SC, you are significantly reducing the attack surface when it comes to potential cyber security vulnerabilities,” he said.
Instead, Automated Logic positions itself as a customer-centric technology provider focused on helping building owners achieve practical operational outcomes such as improved energy performance, higher NABERS (National Australian Built Environment Rating System) ratings, better tenant satisfaction and more efficient building management.
“If the customer has specific requirements in mind, for example improving their portfolio NABERS ratings, energy outcomes, tenant satisfaction, whatever that might be, we focus on that, ultimately it’s about being customer centric” Monaghan said.
The latest version of the WebCTRL platform – Version 10 – formed a major focus of the company’s ARBS display. The software includes an updated user interface along with analytics, fault detection and diagnostic capabilities designed to simplify building management and improve operational efficiency.
Automated Logic also demonstrated AI-driven predictive insights technology capable of identifying faults or operational inefficiencies before they become larger problems.
“We can also extend that out by doing an AI-based detection system through our predictive insights component as well,” Monaghan said.
Beyond environmental control, Monaghan said modern building management systems were increasingly becoming operational intelligence platforms capable of capturing large amounts of data for future analysis and decision-making.
“I think the systems today encapsulate more than just controlling environment,” he said.
“It’s also about capturing the dataset so that any sort of reporting function, any sort of change in future that is needed, that we’ve got that information housed and freely available for that customer.”
Automated Logic’s building management system can be deployed either as on-premise installations or cloud-based platforms depending on customer requirements and IT infrastructure preferences.
Monaghan said the company’s approach differed from some competitors because customers receive ownership of engineering, graphics and reporting tools once the system is installed.
“We don’t hide away from the customer, providing the end user with the engineering tools, the graphical tools, the reporting tools, everything you need, not locked out” he said.
The company believes that approach provides greater long-term flexibility, particularly as buildings become increasingly digitised and data-driven.
Monaghan said the ARBS exhibition remained an important opportunity to build industry awareness and to better understand customer requirements across a rapidly evolving building services sector.
“We think we’ve got the solutions that are flexible and meet the needs of customers,” he said.
Automated Logic’s broader mission statement – “Building Automation for Optimised Environments” – reflects the company’s growing focus on combining building performance, operational efficiency and customer flexibility into a single integrated platform.