Automated Logic (ALC) has announced that its new OptiFlex virtual integrator won the AHR Expo Innovation award in the building automation category from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). ALC will receive the award during the 2019 AHR Expo in Atlanta, Georgia in January 2019. The OptiFlex will also be in the running for ‘Product of the Year,’ which will be announced during the awards ceremony. Each year, products in 10 different categories are recognised for being some of the heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) industry’s most innovative products. Winners were selected based on their innovative design, creativity, value, application and segment impact.
The OptiFlex virtual integrator is a software-based integration platform for data monitoring across diverse building systems. It is a scalable integration solution, ideal for large projects such as data centers, hospitals and college campuses. The virtual integrator supports upto 50,000 data points from a single computer server, eliminating the need for multiple hardware gateways, which often require costly materials and labor, and have installation limitations due to space constraints in the most mechanical rooms. It supports BACnet IP and Modbus TCP/IP, the two most commonly used IP-based protocols as well as a new pluggable protocol technology that allows additional protocol additions. Customers can also add additional points as needed through a scalable licensing mechanism.
