Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall has won the most-visited attraction in Taipei for five consecutive years and there were 7.06 million visitors in 2010. In recent years, its diverse range of exhibitions has made it a much sought-after place to enrich people's spiritual lives.
In the past few years, CKS Memorial Hall's management office has made efforts to improve the building's facilities in order to enhance service quality and energy efficiency. But this is no simple task because of the wide area the building occupies, not to mention the complexity of its electrical layout and circuitry. In 2008, Easy Control Technology Corporation (EZCON) won three bidding projects to better the Hall's facilities: the exhibition room, intelligent lighting systems, and lighting control and electric power monitoring systems.
Advantech's Industrial-grade Quality Receives Recognition
The sales manager of Advantech Intelligent Services Group, Tim Cheng, said "We are pleased to cooperate with EZCON for the CKS projects by providing products and services as well as sharing our experience in the intelligent building field."
EZCON's Director, Shih Tai Chou pointed out that while the CKS Memorial Hall project is not huge, it is still a landmark project and does not allow for any mistakes. EZCON chose Advantech as its project partner because of Advantech's brand reputation and product reliability.
In the first project EZCON began close cooperation with Advantech, choosing Advantech's UbiQ environmental control device with power-saving technology as a lighting control platform. After that, they adopted ADAM-4051 digital I/O Module to collect endpoint data, Advantech's EKI-1528 Serial Device Server and Modbus Gateway to convert signals and set up a complete network to monitor and manage the system. The 24-hour electrical power meter also employs Advantech industrial products.
Intelligent Lighting Control via Touchscreen
Shih Tai Chou indicated that in order to effectively use their budget, they combined existing equipment with the latest switch control methods to integrate a lighting control and circuit management system in a control cabinet that has Advantech's UbiQ device builtin.
As a result, the supervisor can remotely control the lights and electrical outlets via the system screen, without on-site operation. Now, all of the lighting fixtures both inside CKS Memorial Hall and outdoors are directly controlled by the intelligent lighting system in the control center. A daylight sensor allows for automatic day-night switching, and the cabinet's touchscreen displays all lighting conditions.
Tim Cheng said that in response to the intelligent building market,"Advantech had launched related products as early as 2001. Taking the CKS intelligent lighting project as an example, external and internal lights needed manual control in the past but now just need one touch to easily control the whole system via touch screen control interfaces. Scenario controls allow the supervisor to preset various modes to master lighting switches in different regions. In addition, the electric power monitoring project upgraded the CKS Memorial Hall's lighting and power consumption management in the exhibition rooms and galleries. Furthermore, the project not only expanded the scope of lighting management, but also strengthened intelligent light control functions as well as setting an additional monitoring and video server to control the exhibition halls' light switches via the network."
"Energy saving is very important for everyone. Although the CKS project budget was modest, this was a big step forward for Taiwan exhibition centers. People who use electric power management systems will inevitably be negligent. The implementation of the latest IT systems enables intelligent power control, and the successful modernization of CKS Memorial Hall can be a role model for other Taiwan exhibition centers to drive a new wave of smarter systems as well as achieving important energy-saving goals," said Tim Cheng.
In order to effectively manage the thousands of light fixtures and power circuits in Taipei's CKS Memorial Hall, its management office upgraded the control system with solutions from EZCON
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