Building, Monitoring and Control System (BMCS)
The AAD took a giant step forward some years ago in the reduction of energy consumption at the stations through the installation of the Building Monitoring and Control System (BMCS) at Casey, Davis and Mawson. This system allows us to control rather than just monitor energy usage as we have in the past.
An additional major advantage of the BMCS is that it allows on-site trades people to effectively operate and maintain the station facilities.
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Through the use of 120 Controllers, the BMCS monitors and controls the services of 63 buildings across our three Antarctic stations.
The trades people can fully control and program the system from each of the two BMCS computers which are on station.
The system can also be monitored, programmed and controlled from the AAD at Kingston. The installation of the BMCS commenced in 1998 and was completed in early 1999.
