KNX
Port of Antwerp
Belgium
- NETx BMS Server, NETxVoyager
- Data points: 25,000
- BMS clients: 10
- Trades: lighting, fire detection, intrusion detection
- System integrator: DOMICA bvba
The Port of Antwerp is a port in Europe accessible to capesize ships. It is Europe’s second-largest seaport, after Rotterdam. Antwerp stands at the upper end of the tidal estuary of the Scheldt. The estuary is navigable by ships of more than 100,000 Gross Tons as far as 80 km inland. In 2012, the Port of Antwerp handled 14,220 sea trade ships (190.8 million tons of cargo, 53.6% in containers), 57,044 inland barges (123.2 million tons of cargo), and offered liner services to 800 different maritime destinations. Beacons in the harbour, which give status through SMS. These messages contain a code that has to be converted and translated to meaningful measurements (voltage of batteries, lights on at x hour, off at x hour, energy obtained from solarpanels, temperature, errors, …)
- Domotics KNX in buildings (status as well as remote on/off/dimming)
- Status reports from emergency lighting in the buildings (monthly reports according to requirements of European law EN50172)
- UPS in several buildings
- Emergency generators in several buildings
- Connection with shore power installations, which provide power to ships when they are in the docks (ships have to be connected with shore power in order to reduce CO emmission)
- Fire detection of the buildings
- Intrusion detection of the buildings
- Important electrical cabinets on remote locations through input/output with GPRS connection
The main page is a chart of the harbor, which is divided into 16 parts. When an installation gives an error the corresponding area in the harbour turns red and an alarm is displayed on screen.