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OS/2 CONTROLS MAJOR BUILDINGS IN THE U.S.
October 19, 1993
Question: What do the following buildings have in common?
Sears Tower
AT&T World Headquarters
BP America US Headquarters
Kmart World Headquarters
TransAmerica Insurance World Headquarters
Renaissance Center, including the tallest hotel in the USA.
Answer: The comfort control (HVAC), fire alarm, security, and access
control systems in each building run on an application
developed with OS/2 Version 2.1.
Thanks to Electronic Systems USA, the world's leading provider of
integrated, third-party, building-automation control systems, some of
the world's most prestigious facilities run on a specialized
OS/2 application called UNITY.
UNITY is a powerful front-end replacement for Honeywell, Johnson
Controls and Landis & Gyr Powers building automation systems. UNITY
integrates major manufacturers' HVAC, Fire/Life Safety and Security
equipment into a single, PC based system.
For years, the building-automation industry had developed many
proprietary communication protocols; as a result, building owners were
forced to use a single supplier since no other control equipment could
integrate with their existing control systems. Electronic Systems USA
solved this problem by developing UNITY, which ties many different
systems together for the first time.
The 32-bit, OS/2 application integrates various kinds of systems into
one that permits building operators to control critical building-life
and safety functions with greater flexibility. And because of the
application's graphical front-end and the OS/2 Workplace Shell, building
operators can get more done and more easily than they were used to.
By using the communication capabilities of OS/2, the application can
run easily across industry-standard LANs, such as Novell and OS/2 Lan
Server. The building operators can run their favorite DOS and Windows
applications on the same machine at the same time. For example, the
application uses OS/2's Dynamic Data Exchange feature to transfer
information about a building to Microsoft Excel for graphing and
printing purposes automatically.
Developers at Electronic Systems decided to build their mission-critical
application on OS/2 because of OS/2's power and versatility. The
control system application is large and complex. It contains 2 million
lines of code, all written using IBM 32-bit compiler technology. It
requires OS/2's multithreading and multitasking capabilities to handle
more than one thing at a time within its functions and, at the same
time, run alongside additional applications if necessary.
Because of its horsepower and graphical front-end, OS/2 has helped make
Electronic Systems' application the leading multivendor platform in the
the building-automation industry.
If you want to give your software a boost with OS/2, or would like more
information about the Electronic Systems USA application, contact Stacy
Hollowell at Electronic Systems USA, 502-495-6700.
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IBM and OS/2 are registered trademarks of International Business
Machines Corporation.
Electronic Systems USA, Inc. and UNITY are both trademark protected.