November 15, 2008 — ICONICS announced its Facility Analytics facility-based analytical tool. Facility Analytics is part of the ICONICS BizViz Analytics family of software and provides a set of pre-configured, out-of-the-box reports and data mining tools to assist facility managers in decision-making. The new analytical offering will work best when combined with ICONICS’ new FacilityWorX facility-based visualization and control solution. Such analytical reports can focus on reducing costs, optimizing load factors, decreasing fault response times or achieving overall better efficiency.
Data can be provided throughout a facility from various systems and devices including standard environmental control, building automation systems (BAS), power/energy management, backup power/UPS/power generation, chillers, boiler/furnaces, security/access control/video, and fire alarms, just to name a few. Due to the skyrocketing costs of energy, the need for such a solution has never been greater. Facility Analytics helps companies to become more “green” and reduce their overall carbon footprint through optimizations made to energy consumption. It can also assist companies in meeting LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards for the operation of green buildings.
“Facility Analytics offers actionable intelligence that helps customers make better decisions for the future,” said Russ Agrusa, President and CEO of ICONICS. “This information will allow users to reduce energy consumption, aggregate and summarize energy usage by location, and forecast energy costs over time. Facility managers have been waiting for a tool that will help provide detailed insight into how their facility truly functions.” “Facility Managers require additional analytical and reporting tools to assist them in making critical decisions that can have major repercussions on both managing energy costs as well as monitoring and controlling security,” said Craig Resnick, Research Director at ARC Advisory Group.
“For these analytical tools to be most effective, they must have the capability to analyze the multiple sources of data that are required to help run an entire facility as well as to embrace a high level of collaboration between systems that combine visualization, alarm management, scheduling, reporting and analysis. Facility Analytics appears to meet this collaboration capability objective, especially when leveraged with FacilityWorX and other ICONICS software solutions.” ICONICS solutions are widely recognized in the industrial automation software marketplace.
Used in a wide variety of applications worldwide, ICONICS’ GENESIS64, BizViz and GENESIS32 products are recognized for their graphical capabilities and seamless integration with Microsoft operating systems and applications, bridging information from “the shop floor to the top floor.”
ICONICS Background Information
Founded in 1986, ICONICS is a leader in the development of Web-enabled industrial automation and manufacturing intelligence software for Microsoft Windows operating systems. Offering the industry's only suite of fully-integrated OPC-based components and products, GENESIS32 Enterprise Edition is available for Windows XP, XP Professional x64, Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 x64. GENESIS64 takes advantage of 64-bit processors running 64-bit optimized Microsoft Windows operating systems including Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. Pocket GENESIS for Windows CE and Pocket PC was built from the ground up based on ICONICS' OPC-To-The-Core framework.
BizViz is a suite of manufacturing and business intelligence products, which bridge the gap between manufacturing and corporate business information systems. BizViz is designed around Microsoft .NET technology and Microsoft SharePoint Services. ICONICS also offers a complete set of Plug and Play automation components, including best-in-class OPC ActiveX Controls, OPC Toolkit, Human Machine Interface (HMI), Microsoft SQL Server-based data logging, Multimedia Alarming, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) products. ICONICS is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner and 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award Winner (ISV/Software Solutions) represented in over 60 countries, and has more than 225,000 product installations worldwide.
