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CARRIER GLOBAL CORPORATION has released Abound, a new cloud-native plat- form, as part of its growing investment in digital solutions designed to give people con- fidence in the health and safety of their in- door environments.
Abound is an open technology platform that aggregates data from different systems and sen- sors and provides building owners, operators, and occupants transparency into relevant and contextual insights about air quality, thermal comfort, and other performance data.
Carrier chair and CEO, Dave Gitlin, said Abound will transform a building owner’s ability to optimize the indoor environment, boosting the confidence of each visitor and occupant.
“THE PLATFORM HAS MADE AIR QUALITY MORE VISIBLE AND ACTIONABLE.”
He said access to real-time actionable data for indoor air quality and other building systems and sensors embodies the future of building health and performance for customers around the globe.
“With this launch, we are moving closer to es- tablishing industry standards that will provide owners, operators and occupants greater confi- dence in their indoor spaces,” Gitlin said.
Abound is a cloud-native offering that uses ad- vanced technology to make building environ-
Abound is an open technology platform that aggregates data from different systems.
ments more intelligent, efficient and responsive. It connects directly to existing building sys- tems and sensors with no need for upgrades, retrofitting or replacements. And, unlike other building management platforms, Abound is designed to easily work with all systems re- gardless of manufacturer, to unlock and unite siloed data to provide more powerful, action-
able insights.
The platform can be rapidly installed and
scaled and showcases data on a single pane of glass and via remote readings.
A hallmark feature of the platform is the abili- ty for building operators to benchmark building performance related to air quality, ventilation and humidity against the thresholds identified
by certain air features within the WELL Building Standard (WELL) from the International WELL Building Institute, the global authority on healthy buildings.
Building owners will have the ability to display real-time information and messaging about a building’s health through the Abound applica- tion programming interface (API), which can be used to create digital wallboards and support mobile experiences.
IWBI president and chair, Rachel Hodgdon, said the thresholds in the Abound platform are based on the WELL Building Standard’s air quality features, helping Carrier to make something as invisible as air quality more vis- ible and actionable.
Modules increase air conditioning options
New digital input expansion board.
CAREL HAS WID- ENED its range of I/O expansions with the
development of the new Digital Input ex- pansion board.
I/O expansions are modules that can be added to a typical air conditioning applica- tion to increase the
number of inputs and
outputs available on the controller and conse- quently optimise the flexibility and modularity of the solutions.
One of the most common uses involves venti- lation sections comprising several fans with elec- tronic motors; in this case, the speed of the indi- vidual devices needs to be monitored to check their operating status and act on the other fans if one of them fails.
CAREL’s new Digital Inputs expansion board is ideal for cases where numerous digital inputs (including fast inputs up to 500 Hz) need to be
read while limiting the total number of I/Os and space required.
One typical example involves so-called “in row units” used for cooling data centres, highly com- pact units that do not require complex device con- trol architecture or specific sensors for their opera- tion. These feature a single ventilation section with at least eight fans in parallel, which need to be monitored individually. In this case, reading the signal is a simple and effective way to verify opera- tion, as well as being a more economical solution than installing expensive air flow-rate sensors.
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