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Room automation
Desigo room automation
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20.1.3 Rooms and room segments
There are two methods to structure a building:
● Rooms (with fixed walls)
● Room segments (typically based on movable walls)
One of the two methods or a mixture thereof is possible depending on the
building structure or required flexibility (e.g., during the usage phase).
A room segment is the smallest indivisible element. A room comprises at least
one or several adjacent room segments. A room segment is defined and created
only once. Room segments are typically combined several times to rooms over
the course of a building's lifecycle.
20.1.4 Central control functions and grouping
Grouping is used to implement central control functions and to coordinate
demand and forced signals from the various rooms in an entire building,
building wing, floor, etc.
Hidden behind the central control functions are system functions, such as
operator interventions via BACnet clients, schedulers, automatic reactions, and
data from a weather station.
Central functions influence: