Zentrum für Psychiatrie Südwürttemberg (ZfP) Case Study
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- Europe
Country
- Germany
Product
- ICONICS GENESIS64™
- Hyper Historian™
- KPIWorX™
Tech Stack
- HTML5
- SQL Server
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Digital Expertise
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration
Applicable Industries
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Facility Management
Use Cases
- Building Automation & Control
- Building Energy Management
Services
- System Integration
- Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
The Zentrum für Psychiatrie Südwürttemberg (ZfP) [Center for Psychiatry Südwürttemberg], located in Südwürttemberg, Germany, offers a differentiated and comprehensive help system for mentally ill patients, focusing on innovative forms of treatment and professional care. The ZfP has a social mandate to advise, treat, and care for people with mental, psychosomatic, and neurological illnesses and impairments. Located between Stuttgart and Lake Constance (in South Germany), the ZfP serves approximately 1.8 million inhabitants in nine administrative districts. ZfP Südwürttemberg is one of the largest service providers in its region. Every year, around 17,000 patients are treated as inpatients and more than 40,000 as outpatients. The non-profit organization operates specialist clinics, outpatient departments, and medical care centers. The ZfP also works with almost 650 home-based locations, more than 200 outpatient assisted living facilities, an outpatient nursing service, and almost 600 sheltered workplaces/workshops for the disabled.
The Challenge
Zentrum für Psychiatrie Südwürttemberg (ZfP) is a large service provider in its region, operating specialist clinics, outpatient departments, and medical care centers. It also works with almost 650 home-based locations, more than 200 outpatient assisted living facilities, an outpatient nursing service, and almost 600 sheltered workplaces/workshops for the disabled. The center considers a high building standard as enormously important to guarantee the appropriate patient environment for the best possible treatment and care. However, for the group’s 157 buildings, this objective can only be achieved with the most modern and technologically advanced building control technology. The prior building management software solution, with approximately 15,000 data points, as well as 500 overview and plant displays, eventually failed to live up to the expectations of the Administration and its multiple locations. The obsolete system was unable to process the required large amounts of data as desired. Data analysis was often delayed and would not show the current state of the building’s environmental conditions. Updates of the existing software were not possible, and development felt frozen in regard to HTML5 programming. These attributes frequently led to emergency staff meetings.
The Solution
The ZfP chose system integrator/distributor MESALOGIC of Merneberg, Germany to manage the system upgrade. MESALOGIC chose ICONICS software for its new, more modern building control system and in particular selected the following ICONICS platforms: ICONICS GENESIS64™ HMI/SCADA and building automation suite, Hyper Historian™ rapid data historian, and KPIWorX™ self-service dashboard application for real-time and historical data. GENESIS64 is now responsible for visualizing the process data of the whole instrumentation and control engineering system (including heating, ventilation, and air conditioning). Facility management personnel use the system to centrally monitor and coordinate all 157 buildings from ZfP’s administrative headquarters in Bad Schussenried, with the added benefit of being able to access the software from anywhere via web browser or mobile app. Control processes are optimized with the aid of historical process data, and energy flows are recorded for higherlevel energy management. ZfP’s new portal now includes drag and drop functions for the approximately 15,000 data points, as well as extended alarm management. An additional MESALOGIC asset book, created to simplify daily work in facility management, combines user comments from trends and current setpoint changes from plant displays in a SQL Server database, while also providing the ability to manually input repair and maintenance data.
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