Building Controls - Premises Design

DEXAGON works with the owners, architects, engineers, and other stakeholders to create a flexible, robust management network. This network provides the ability to connect many different types of devices to a central control computer. The intial design of the management network is crucial to the successful deployment of "Building Control" services.

We have designed outdoor, buried fiber networks, as well as indoor fiber and copper networks. These networks can carry IP (typically on Ethernet copper), voice (typically VoIP or proprietary PBX digital), RS232/RS485 (for device control), dry contact, and other types of communications.

We can help specify the central control computer, or work with others to create an RFP and assess the responses. We work closely with IT departments to integrate the additional hardware and software with existing equipment.

We have designed on-site monitoring/security rooms as well as off-site command centers. These rooms need to have robust, redundant access to the primary systems, and the room architecture itself needs to be optimized for the functions and people that it serves.

We can provide assistance or take the lead role in defining security and operational procedures and protocols to assure that the building's "smarts" are utilized properly, secure from tampering, and fulfill the requirements of the building owner and the tenants.