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2.2. Implementation

The Hyperdome’s building management company worked closely with Switch Automation to
connect the existing BMS to the Switch Platform, delivering a comprehensive building optimisation
solution. The Switch Platform virtually connected to the company’s existing system to reveal deeper
insight into the Hyperdome’s energy consumption.
Prior to the project implementation the BMS was doing exactly what it was designed to do: control
all equipment to setpoint, with the least amount of error possible. However, temperature and
pressure setpoints needed to be optimised and the control of all plants needed to be in conjunction
with energy use. By implementing the Switch Platform, the BMS has been successfully converted to
a BEMS (Building & Energy Management System), in which energy consumption are monitored and
optimised without compromising occupants’ comfort.

The team at the Hyperdome’s building management company and at Switch Automation were
key drivers of this project. The collaboration between the building manager at the Hyperdome’s
management company and a building engineer at Switch Automation played a key role in realising
the project’s full potential. Together they identified:

• Opportunities for savings;

• Key building systems to connect; and

• Appropriate adjustments to make in order to maximise operations.

Additionally, the following enablers were crucial in its success:

o Leadership: The owners understood the opportunity to make Hyperdome more performant
through the use of real-time data from the BMS. This data enabled the facilities team to tune the
BMS to perform at its optimum without compromising the comfort of the shoppers in the mall.
Additionally, once the fault detection rules were deployed, a continuous commissioning program
could be realised so the BMS would continue to operate at its peak.

o Financial: The team at the Hyperdome’s building management company saw the value of
investing in a Platform to add deep energy consumption insights to their existing BMS. The
return in energy cost savings ultimately offset the initial investment in the Switch Platform.

o Organisation: The team at the Hyperdome’s building management company and the team at
Switch Automation partnered to implement this project.

Some other critical success factors included:

- Standardised fault rules deployed at scale;

- Consistent naming convention that could be deployed across multiple buildings, allowing all site
teams to benefit across the portfolio;

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