FSAutomation
Online Integration with Your Building Controls
FSAutomation is an add-on for FSDirect that allows FSDirect to share data with your building automation system (BAS). FSAutomation can automatically schedule your systems (HVAC, lighting, etc.) to coordinate with FSDirect events. FSAutomation is compatible with multiple BAS manufacturers including: Alerton, Automated Logic, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Siemens, TAC/Schneider Electric, Trane, and Tridium.
Are you wasting energy due to inefficient facility conditioning and scheduling? Quickly eliminate hours of manual overrides, last-minute facility conditioning requests, and wasted time and energy. It’s a simple integration that requires just one piece of hardware, and can be accomplished quickly. You can even make schedule changes from your iPhone or other mobile device!
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"We have been using FSA for several years now and it has greatly simplified our after-hours scheduling process. In addition it has helped our custodians plan for deep cleaning/waxing in areas and only turn on HVAC when truly needed. We conservatively estimate at least 3% energy savings directly from implementing SchoolDude’s FSD and FSA tools." Fred Hayward, Maintenance Supervisor Kent Intermediate Schools ( Grand Rapids, MI)
Value to Your Administration
- Maximizes operational efficiency by automating BAS overrides
- Achieves significant energy savings
- Accommodates “last minute” facility usage overrides and cancellations
- Improves customer service and employee productivity
Benefits
- Reduces energy costs 2-5% by automating BAS with facility schedules and accommodating “last minute” cancellations, saving approximately $5-8 per student per year
- Readies educational institutions through future integration with billing, to recover the cost of community use of facilities based on actual usage
- Saves HVAC staff 15-minutes per event by automating BAS overrides for facility schedule changes, saving approximately $3-5 per student per year (for a typical educational institution scheduling 1/2 to 1 event per enrolled student annually)
- Saves even more if integrated with your lighting controls for reduced energy consumption
Features & Functions
- Automatically schedules your BAS to coordinate with approved FSDirect scheduled events
- Automatically returns the BAS to BAS-controlled mode after scheduled events have ended
- Enables event schedule changes and cancellations in FSDirect to automatically reset your BAS to BAS controlled mode
- Enables “last minute” schedule overrides
- Enables “last minute” and partial use cancellations to automatically reset BAS to controlled mode
- Can be integrated with Lighting Systems
- Provides accountability through historical documentation of all scheduled events and overrides
- Optimizes after-hours HVAC schedules based on actual facility usage through integration with FSDirect
- Supports most networked BAS solutions, including BACnet I/P, Lon and Modbus
Client Success
"Because of the way the product works with FSDirect and my BAS, the heat or air conditioning is on for just the amount of time that the event is taking place. If we have an event from 5:00-7:00, Facility Schedule Automation takes over, and I don’t have to worry about it. And the implementation was fast and easy!" Jay Roberts, Manager of Operations Lakewood City Schools (Lakewood, OH)
"We have been using FSA for several years now and it has greatly simplified our after-hours scheduling process. In addition it has helped our custodians plan for deep cleaning/waxing in areas and only turn on HVAC when truly needed. We conservatively estimate at least 3% energy savings directly from implementing SchoolDude’s FSD and FSA tools." Fred Hayward, Maintenance Supervisor Kent Intermediate Schools ( Grand Rapids, MI)
"FSDirect allows us to understand our facility usage and to control it better. That saves energy. If an event is canceled, we see the change on the calendar and FSA makes sure that HVAC is not supplied needlessly." Paul Cooper, Director Transportation & Operations Coopersville Area PS ( Coopersville, MI)
"By automation, we stop the process of printing work orders and the risk of losing them or delivering them to staff who may be absent when a schedule is in need of adjustment. We have eliminated the human factor and improved the comfort level of the facilities. It also limits calls for actual equipment failures and allows our building operators to focus on repairs, not scheduling — which was negatively effecting weekly productivity by about 10% on average, and costing the district overtime expense." Les Reddin, Executive Director of Facilities Management Eanes ISD (Austin, TX)
"We were pleased, and somewhat surprised, that it could be done with only one piece of hardware." Nick Thornton, Supervisor of Energy Management Wayne-Westland Community Schools ( Westland, MI)
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