Building Intercom Automation Drives the Development of Automatic Control System

A new report from IMS Research predicts that building automation and lighting control systems are increasingly integrated. In 2011, on average, 25% of systems installed in building automation systems in the Americas and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa were integrated with lighting control systems. The report predicts that by 2016, this figure will increase to 35%. With respect to building automation devices, solutions almost always place the emphasis on environmental or HVAC-R (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration) control.

Building Industry Automation Market Overview

The building industry is a kind of knowledge-based service link in which companies, especially knowledge-based service companies or large-scale enterprises, introduce companies in various forms such as development, lease, sale, etc., based on commercial buildings and characteristic block buildings that have been built and under construction. (such as headquarters management, R&D and design, investment, and professional services, etc.), make full use of space resources, cultivate tax sources, and promote the rapid development of regional economy in modern regional economic development. The development of the building industry plays an important role in opening up space for development, accumulating economic factors, improving the grades of industries, enhancing the development of intensions, and expanding the total economic output.

Building automation products are the main component of smart buildings. Intelligent building realizes the comprehensive monitoring and management of equipment and building environment in buildings (groups) through building automation system, and creates a comfortable, safe, economical, efficient and convenient working and living environment for users of buildings, and optimizes the operation of equipment. Management, reduce operating expenses. The building automation system involves the building's equipment and systems such as electric power, lighting, air conditioning, ventilation, water supply and drainage, disaster prevention, safety precautions, and garage management. It is the subsystem with the widest coverage, the largest number of design tasks, and the largest amount of project construction in intelligent buildings. Its design level and project construction quality have a direct impact on the realization of intelligent building functions. In recent years, with the rise of smart buildings, the application of automation products in the building industry has become more and more widespread.

Growth of Building Automation System Drives Brand Development

Compared with foreign countries, China's building automation industry started late. Early building automation products concentrated on imported brands such as Johnson, Honeywell and Siemens. However, with the continuous development of the building automation market, more and more domestic brands have entered the building automation market.

The rapid growth of the building automation market in 2011 was mainly due to the continuous growth of the overall fixed investment. Under the energy-saving appeals, the owners’ recognition of building automation has been increasing. A good new environment ensures the rapid growth of the building automation market. In 2011, total fixed asset investment in the whole society increased by 23.8% year-on-year, maintaining rapid growth. In addition, the area of buildings under construction, construction and completion in China increased by 30.1%, 30.8% and 29.9% respectively.

Building industry automation market scale

The automation products of the building industry are mainly used in the control systems of intelligent buildings. The automation products related to intelligent building control systems mainly include building automation systems (BAS), intelligent lighting control systems, fire protection systems, low-voltage distribution products (LV) and Some other related products. According to Mir Automation's statistics, the scale of the automation market for the entire building industry in 2011 was 74.216 billion yuan, of which the BAS product market size was 3.59 billion yuan, the market size of fire safety and security products was 40.64 billion yuan, and the market size of smart lighting products was 6.8 billion yuan. The market size of low-voltage power distribution products is 22.846 billion yuan (including ACB/MCCB/MCB/RCD), and the market size of other related products is 340 million yuan.

Since the year of 2003, the building industry has maintained a growth rate of nearly 30%, and the application of automation products to modern buildings has maintained a double-digit growth rate in recent years, and these two years have been affected by the country’s macro-control over the real estate industry. From 2009 to 2011, the growth rate has slowed down year by year. It is expected that this year will witness the first negative growth in recent years (because of the substantial reduction in real estate development). However, as the economy picks up, the building automation industry will slowly recover in 2013 from 2013. From the beginning, it will recover about 8%.

BAS system market conditions

In the building industry, BAS applications are relatively common and there are corresponding products in some high-end office buildings, commercial houses, school buildings, and libraries. In 2011, the BAS market for the building industry reached 3.59 billion yuan, accounting for 4.8% of the entire building automation market. The BAS control system of the building industry application is divided into the building implementation terminal, room automation system and host controller according to the product. Since the core of the entire BAS control system is the temperature control part, the application execution end of the building is highest in the BAS, reaching 42%. %, followed by the host controller, the proportion of product sales accounted for 33% of the entire BAS, and finally the room temperature control system, accounting for 25% of the entire BAS sales.

At present, there are many BAS system manufacturers in the domestic market and the industry concentration is not high. The top few manufacturers account for less than 50% of the market share. Foreign brands occupy most of the market of China BAS system, and the main brands are European, American and Japanese brands. Among them, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, and Siemens occupy the top three market shares. The BAS system is widely used in various types of buildings. In recent years, due to the rise of high-end properties, the proportion of high-end office buildings, hotels, shopping malls, high-end residential and other local applications of the BAS system has rapidly increased. Judging from the current market conditions, the types of buildings most commonly used by the BAS system are still some public buildings (such as schools, hospitals, etc.).

In the building industry, the application of fire safety related products is very wide. In 2011, in the building industry, the sales of fire safety related products was 40.64 billion yuan, accounting for 54.8% of the entire building automation product market. In the fire safety products, security products account for a large proportion, reaching 79%, while fire-fighting products account for 21%.

Due to the improvement of economic development level and residents' awareness of fire and security, most buildings have already started to use fire safety and security products as supporting facilities. It is also worth noting that in recent years, due to the need for project acceptance and property rating, some real estate projects require It will purchase high-end foreign brands fire safety products.

In the fire protection products, the foreign brand is still dominated by European and American brands. The foreign brands occupy most of the market share in the high-end market of the fire-fighting market, while the domestic brands have a strong price advantage in the low-end market, so the domestic brands are in the low-end market. There is a strong voice in the market for fire products. It is worth noting that manufacturers of large-scale domestic fire-fighting products, such as Beida Jade Bird, Gulf, and Lida, have long-term contacts with fire engineering companies, and their channel construction is very strong, so their channel advantages are obvious. In the security market, although foreign brands rely on their technical leadership, a large proportion of applications, and strong market discourse, there are still a large number of manufacturers in the security market. There is no obvious advantage in the market share of foreign brands. The overall market concentration is low. As far as the current market situation is concerned, the proportion of fire safety products applied to public buildings is the largest, reaching 26%. This is mainly because in the field of public buildings, the government attaches importance to and emphasizes building safety and seldom considers budget issues.

Followed by residential, office buildings, hotels, shopping malls and other commercial buildings, this is mainly due to the project acceptance and property rating appraisal of some commercial buildings and residential projects, while the commercial construction of large flow of people, high electricity load, for people and buildings Security requirements for property and property are very strong, so the percentage of fire safety products used in such buildings is relatively high.

Since the country does not mandate that all buildings must have fire safety systems installed, some of the relatively low-budget projects such as mid- to low-end residential and industrial plants do not use security and fire protection systems.