After decades of continuous growth, the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana was facing strains on the aging buildings in its 16 building system. The library administration developed plans to replace some branches and to expand and renovate others in the system. Trane was awarded the systems automation and integration contract for building systems throughout all library locations countywide.

Included in the scope of work was the requirement to interface Edwards Systems Technology EST3 Fire Alarm Panels to the Trane central Operator Work Stations via BACnet/IP over the Ethernet WAN. Achieving this would enable facilities management personnel to view the status of the BAS and Fire Alarm Panels in sixteen buildings from a single station. ESCO Communications was responsible for the interface from EST3 to Trane via BACnet/IP.

Rod Corson, Project Manager for ESCO Communications stated, "FieldServer was there every step of the way without hesitation."

Learn more about the application at Allen County Public Library

The University of Arizona has installed many FieldServer gateways to achieve their goal of interfacing a wide variety of HVAC, Fire alarm, and Energy systems to their building automation system. As part of this project the University was using multiple sources of chilled water, which is an expensive commodity in Tucson, Arizona. Ultrasonic flow meters on each chilled water pipe monitored the flow of chilled water.

The University wanted to calculate total water usage but did not want to burden existing computer resources with these computations. The power of the FieldServer gateway came to the rescue with its built in math functions. The University Integrated Systems Group decided that it would be far easier and more efficient to do the math functions in the FieldServer and save the processing power in their head-end computer, while centralizing the processing control of chilled water metering.

Click here for further information about how FieldServer Math Functions helped the University of Arizona

FieldServer Technologies has developed protocol drivers to interface to most major Fire Alarm Control Panels, including EST, Notifier, Simplex, Siemens, Secutron, Spectronics, FCI, Gamewell and more. If you need to bring fire alarm panel information to a BAS then FieldServer has the solution.

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FieldServer Technologies offers a two-day training class every two months at our headquarters in Milpitas, California (in the San Francisco Bay area). This course has proven to be of great benefit to all owners of FieldServer gateways, integrators and those interested in learning how to apply and configure a FieldServer prior to purchase.

FieldServer factory training provides a full introduction to the FieldServer gateway including configuration and set up and practical exercise in using FieldServer with your specific product. Plus you walk away from this class with a free demo FieldServer package, and a full year of unlimited Technical Support.

We are now taking reservations for the June class

For more information on FieldServer Technical Training classes

FieldServer Technologies offers free hour-long Webinars quarterly to enhance our user's knowledge on specific application tips, and provide details on undocumented features, shortcuts and advanced functions of the FieldServer. In the past these Webinars have covered subjects including LonWorks and Metasys. These Webinars are a valuable resource to you providing:

• Focussed Discussion on Specific Subjects
• Opportunity to Participate in Question and Answer Session with Experienced Technical Support Personnel
• Ability to Discuss FieldServer with other Webinar Attendees for a User's Point-of-View

One of the several different Fire Alarm Panels that have successfully used FieldServer to interface to Building Automation Systems is the EST3 from Edwards Systems Technology. EST3 is an alarm panel that offers the reporting of many different types of sensors as well as the different states within each sensor. Although the permutations of possible configurations for this interface can be overwhelming, FieldServer Technologies has put together an ENote that will helps the user sort through the various information needed to properly configure a FieldServer.

ENOTE0066 - Getting Started with EST3 Configuration