System structure

The Beckhoff Industrial PCs meet all requirements with regard to the automation of heating, ventilation and air conditioning as well as room automation.

The large portfolio of Beckhoff Industrial PCs results in excellent scalability of the building automation system. The high industrial quality standard guarantees high system availability and investment security.

All PCs are programmed with TwinCAT Engineering TE1000 regardless of their use.

By using the TwinCAT functions TF8020 BACnet and TF8040 Building Automation, all industrial PCs in the Beckhoff portfolio become a powerful automation station for building automation. (The TwinCAT function TF8040 is currently not available for the small controllers of the CX7xxx series).

The choice of processor allows the automation station to be adapted to the requirements of the automation station to be configured with fine granularity in terms of its computing power.

The design of the industrial PC is also freely selectable.

The embedded PCs from the CX series are ideal for this purpose.

Bus terminals (K-bus) or EtherCAT Terminals (E-bus) can be attached on the right-hand side of the embedded PC.

Depending on the version of the embedded PC, it can be equipped with a DVI-I interface.

A control panel can be connected if required. The industrial PC can be used as an automation station for a control cabinet with local operation via a touch panel. The function TF2000 HMI server must then be installed on the IPC.

Very powerful ultra-compact PCs are available for higher-level tasks within the automation system, such as the MBE (management and operating unit).

The TwinCAT HMI can thus act not only as a local control of an IPC, but also as a web HMI for a large number of automation stations.

Whether it is plant or room automation, the same hardware and software is used in all applications. Interoperability of all building automation components is therefore ensured.