Building Connect: Siemens Building Technologies.

Building Connect: Siemens Building Technologies. www.usa.siemens (Siemens AG, Munich, Germany, www.siemens.com) A leading European electrical and electronics firm founded in 1847. Siemens has more than 430,000 employees in nearly 200 countries, and more than 50,000 professionals are engaged in research and development. .com/buildingtechnologies Internet InternetPublicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , Pricing based ondistrict needs Building Connect by Siemens connects fire, communication, securityand building control systems. In emergencies, a school's firecontrol panel communicates directly with the card access system, pagingspeakers and phone system. Mass notification and access systems alsocommunicate with the building automation system and trigger (1) A mechanism that initiates an action when an event occurs such as reaching a certain time or date or upon receiving some type of input. A trigger generally causes a program routine to be executed. alarmnotification and the execution of smoke control sequences. BuildingConnect also links mechanical systems such as chillers and boilers tothe building automation system to provide optimal heating and coolingstart-stop operation along with centralized cen��tral��ize?v. cen��tral��ized, cen��tral��iz��ing, cen��tral��iz��esv.tr.1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate.2. alarms and monitoring.