Overview

In order to meet the high demands of building automation, such as comfort, energy efficiency, low investment and operating costs, and a fast return on investment, it is essential to have a consistent, coordinated control system for the automation of all technical systems.

With TwinCAT 3 Building Automation, Beckhoff has developed a software product that reduces engineering time and integrates all essential functions for all technical systems of modern building automation. Extensive software libraries and tools continue the idea of the modular Beckhoff automation toolkit at the software level. The new software suite essentially comprises three basic functions:

TwinCAT 3 BA PLC Libraries:

Basic functions for all technical systems.

TwinCAT 3 BA PLC Templates:

Function templates for all technical systems.

TwinCAT 3 BA Tools:

Software tools to optimize the implementation of building automation projects in terms of data processing, commissioning, adjustment and maintenance.

By using the function TwinCAT 3 Building Automation, all PLC programs, including the central heating plant, the air conditioning plant and the room automation functions can be programmed with TwinCAT PLC Control and are then available as function blocks within the building automation libraries.

The PID controllers, the sequence controllers and the sequence linkers required for the TwinCAT 3 Building Automation library (Tc3_BA) can be found in the pre-installed library Tc3_BA_Common.

The functions and controllers required for the TwinCAT 3 Building Automation library (Tc3_BA2) can be found in the pre-installed library Tc3_BA2_Common.