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Building Automation is Key to Green Buildings

User comfort, efficiency and security – today's buildings must fulfill these needs. This requires intelligent automation technology that controls, regulates and monitors all building functions. Building automation is therefore indispensable in non-residential buildings – and simultaneously forms the basis for green buildings.

With its comprehensive range of solutions and services, WAGO is your reliable partner for the planning, commissioning and ongoing operation of buildings.

Building Automation by WAGO

Discover Our Solutions for Your Building Project

Building automation has been gaining importance for years. Not least because, thanks to continuous progress in digitalization and increasing innovation speed, ever greater comfort and efficiency gains can be achieved. Especially in the building sector, political guidelines – such as the EPBD or Renovation wave – are also pushing smart solutions forward. In line with the motto: Green Buildings are Smart Buildings.

The most important prerequisite for a sustainable and thus intelligent building is that all components are networked and can communicate with one another. Standardized, safe automation technology is crucial.

In order to meet these developments and requirements in a future-proof manner, holistic and flexible solutions are required. These solutions will ensure cross-industry planning, commissioning and efficient operation of buildings, as well as partners who support with project experience and technological know-how in every phase of the building life cycle.

At WAGO, you get all this from one source: from hardware to software to consulting and service.

Benefit from Our Expertise:

Your partner: WAGO is a solution provider for modular, integrative building automation systems.
Expertise: We have many years of experience in developing system solutions that simplify your work and make your buildings more transparent.
Flexibility: From standardized to individual, project-specific solutions – WAGO is your reliable contact and consultant for planning and commissioning building services.
Strong network: With our WAGO Solution Provider program, we unite project-specific clients and implementation experts.

Comprehensive Solutions for a Wide Range of Applications

Whether for office and administration buildings, production facilities and warehouses, infrastructure buildings or retail stores – click through our interactive world of smart buildings and get to know our solutions for a wide range of applications.

Our Portfolio for Your Sustainable Building

Green buildings are smart buildings that are characterized by the optimal networking of the various building systems in a digital, sustainable building ecosystem. With our technologies, solutions and services, you are set up in a future-proof manner today – for buildings that meet the demands of investors, operators, facility managers and users, today and tomorrow.

What We Develop for You:

GA libraries, system macros and prefabricated, standardized application solutions for the simple and efficient commissioning of building services systems
Individual building and system automation solutions for sustainable, energy-efficient and comfortable building operation
Project-specific integration solutions for all common protocols in building automation for conveniently interconnecting all building systems and ensuring their optimum interaction

What We Offer You:

Programmable logic controllers with numerous interfaces for a wide variety of control tasks
Hardware concepts based on the WAGO I/O Systems 750 for your flexible and fully integrated building automation solution
Tools and software for holistic and efficient engineering, such as our WAGO Solution Builder
Switches for reliable and secure data traffic
Touch panels and displays for demanding control and visualization tasks
On request, already configured in your individual control cabinet solution

Our Standardized System Solutions for Your Application

Customizable on request, according to project

Flexible Room Automation with WAGO Application flexROOM® Area

Flexibly automate non-segment-oriented rooms and areas: WAGO Application flexROOM® Area is a scalable room automation solution with ready-made functions for lighting, shading and room climate. True to the principle of "configuring instead of programming", the application solution is fast, secure and yet flexible.

Building and property management

Flexible Automation, Central Management

WAGO Building Control Application

Building automation always involves very similar tasks. All the various building systems, such as lighting, shades, heating, air-conditioning and ventilation, require control and regulation. WAGO is launching its “WAGO Application Building Control“ to fulfill these tasks. This software can be put to work without any programming.

Integrated Room Automation

flexROOM^®, the scalable room automation solution from WAGO, provides lighting, sun protection and temperature control without any programming.

Lighting Management

WAGO Lighting Management is a sophisticated solution for lighting control in large spaces, such as production facilities and warehouses. By combining predefined hardware and user-friendly software, WAGO offers a lighting management system that makes planning and commissioning new lighting systems easier and also provides numerous advantages for operation.

Energy Data Management

Parameter Setting – Not Programming

WAGO Energy Data Management – consisting of a software solution combined with a modular control system – records measurement data from different media and variables for energy monitoring. It then processes them for further analysis, archiving and reporting.

Knowing What’s Possible:
WAGO Building Automation Solutions in Action

Customer Application Projects

Discover some of our implemented customer projects – from conventional renovation projects, to efficiency projects, to new smart buildings.

WAGO Solution Provider

In our strong network of solution providers, you will find competent WAGO partners and system experts who will help you implement your projects.

Know what moves the industry

Basics of building automation (incl. list of building automation protocols)
Building renovation
Smart Green Buildings
Cyber security in building automation

FAQ Building Automation

Building automation (BA) is defined internationally by ISO 16484 and in Germany nationally by VDI 3814 as the automated control, regulation, monitoring, optimization and operation of technical building equipment (TBE) – primarily including HVAC, lighting and shading.

A distinction must be made between building and home automation for residential buildings, commonly known as smart homes.

It's important to know that “smart building” is an undefined term that leaves room for interpretation. However, “smart building” presumably includes advanced building automation anyway. WAGO defines a “smart building” as a non-residential building operated sustainably and energy-efficiently over its entire lifecycle. With the functions of a system-wide building automation and control system and other services, a “smart building” supports the user and offers maximum comfort in optimum climate and lighting conditions.

With well-thought-out building automation, building technology processes can be designed automatically, intelligently and efficiently. Therefore, BA plays a key role in constructing sustainable non-residential buildings, such as office or administrative buildings, kindergartens or hospitals. BA also increases occupants' safety and comfort by relieving them of tasks such as switching the lights on and off or regulating the temperature.

A sophisticated room automation system ensures optimal room conditions and efficient energy use without any occupant effort. This requires leveraging synergies, e.g., between HVAC, lighting, and shading:

The ISO 52120 (previously known as EN 15232) lists potential savings depending on the automation class.

Demand-driven shading
For example, before cooling rooms in summer, closed shades prevent sunlight from heating the rooms. In winter, rooms can be warmed by opening the shades.
Optimal and efficient use of space
Optimum room temperature control
Intelligent lighting control
Presence-dependent air conditioning

An open system is characterized by the use of standardized communication technologies and support by many manufacturers. The components are thus interoperable, can be networked and can exchange information independently of the manufacturer. This simplifies using the synergistic effects of different systems.

In contrast, a proprietary system is manufacturer-specific. Generally, only devices from one manufacturer can communicate with each other. Therefore, communication between different proprietary systems requires significant technical and financial resources. In fact, using proprietary systems means that users largely depend on the manufacturer – especially when it comes to maintaining and expanding the system.

There are many different protocols or communication technologies that must exchange data in a BA system:

IP-based communication, which is characterized by flexibility, is increasingly gaining ground – e.g., via BACnet IP (BACnet SC), Modbus TCP and MQTT for cloud connections.

Additionally, protocols such as Modbus RTU, KNX TP1, DALI and SMI still exist; these are transmitted via twisted pair technologies. Use of these technologies is decreasing as IP communications increase. Nowadays, these technologies are used to build shorter and shorter routes, which are integrated into IP networks with suitable routers.

In addition, wireless technologies are becoming increasingly popular on the market. Especially for revitalizing existing buildings, wireless technologies offer the necessary flexibility. For example, EnOcean is an established wireless technology. Other technologies are also developing, such as LoRaWAN, Thread with KNX RF and Matter, as well as Zigbee, for which a final market impact can not yet be estimated.

Don't underestimate this: When it comes to communication within a BA system, it is vital to focus on IT security to protect the systems from unauthorized access.

BACnet stands as the data transmission protocol for “Building Automation and Control Networks” in building automation and is standardized with ISO 16484-5 worldwide. The BACnet protocol can be transmitted over various transmission media such as IP and two-wire networks. BACnet enables standardized data exchange for building automation and, thus, a cross-system integration of devices from different manufacturers and sectors into a uniform overall system. Extensions or changes in buildings can be implemented with BACnet regardless of manufacturer and across systems.

A data point in BA is an information unit that can be physical or virtual. Physical data points refer to directly connected or networked field devices in a system. Virtual data points (also called communicative or fictitious), on the other hand, are software-based or come from a transmission protocol. Data points are uniquely identified in a building automation system via a data point address or user address (asset identification key).

Project service

Additional service offerings:

Suitable Connection Technology Wanted

Building Installation Solutions

As buildings become smarter and smarter, they require more and more technology and electrical wiring. This presents challenges for electrical engineers. WAGO supports you with a wide range of solutions for connection technology and as a partner to meet these challenges – whether with conventional connections, e.g., using the 221 Series, or pluggable connections using WINSTA^®. Discover our range of topics from junction box, control cabinet and room installation, to tool-free lever operation, and our wide variety of marking options and accessories – all fast, safe and maintenance-free solutions for any application.