MSP Intelligent Monitoring and Controls System

With more than 3 million square feet of terminal space and serving more than 38 million passengers a year, the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) needed a solution that would integrate and automate all HVAC, plumbing and lighting systems in the 90+ buildings at the complex with an open protocol and real-time access.

To meet the redesign and upgrade project goals, Harris, along with key design partners, developed the Intelligent Monitoring and Controls System (IMACS). The system utilizes the Tridium Niagara AX framework together with the Java Application Control Engine (JACE) controller to provides custom sequences for HVAC, lighting, facilities monitoring, transportation, plumbing, electrical and specialty systems, with LonMark field level controllers.

In using open protocol systems and components, Harris was able to integrate existing sensors, valves, dampers, wiring and other field devices instead of replacing them, and the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) was able to competitively bid out all their automation work including all construction and maintenance of the system.

Over the course of the system deployment and installation, MAC exceeded their financial project goals with a strong return on their investment and continues to work with Harris on an on-going basis for other intelligent building monitoring and control systems projects that conserve energy costs and improve system performance and occupancy comfort.