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GEA Control Systems / GEA MATRIX®
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Switch on to air conditioning with GEA MATRIX:
and enjoy simply intelligent control for everything we deliver
The newly developed GEA MATRIX control system now supports all units from GEA Air Treatment – for simplification of installation and enhancement of comfort.
The times are long gone when every model type required its own control system. Following its new development of GEA MATRIX, GEA Air Treatment a control system that supports all air-conditioning and ventilation models. This advance offers a number of benefits for installation companies, investors, and users alike. The selection of the appropriate control components is now sim-pler, and the uniform concept enables intuitive commissioning and operation. New operator control units, with displays that feature plain text and pictograms, support the user in setting the desired room climate. And it’s not only faster installation that provides re-lief for the user’s budget: thanks to function-oriented selection, the user pays only for the control functions actually required.
Project planners and installation companies find that our choice of components is simple: thanks to the combination possibilities, GEA MATRIX offers a high degree of flexibility and security in compo-nent selection. GEA MATRIX now recognizes only five different groups of components: operator-control units allow setting of de-sired values, and provide information on essential system operating states. Electronic control modules compare desired and actual val-ues, control and monitor the equipment, and react to external in-fluencing events. The power circuitry of these units converts con-trol signals from this closed-loop electronic system into switching commands. Global modules are available for expansion of func-tionality. These modules receive control signals, activate actuators from the pump to the chiller, and enable interfacing to external systems such as the building management system. Finally, service tools – as compact manual devices or as handy PC software – serve for smooth commissioning, parameterizing, and systems analysis.
The selection of GEA MATRIX components is oriented to the de-sired functions. What’s not needed doesn’t have to be bought – and this benefit allows cost-favourable and project related design of the technical systems. And if requirements later change – as a re-sult of facilities expansion, for example – GEA MATRIX grows right along with the expanding plant. The modular configuration en-sures success and cost-effectiveness in installing and expanding GEA MATRIX, which in turn guarantees the safety of the invest-ment.
This assurance of effective expansion is also possible to great de-gree by the application of innovative bus technology. Stand-alone data exchange among the units, the possibility of hooking up more than 320 bus users, and open interfaces such as LON and WEB – these are only a few of the key features of GEA MATRIX. In opera-tion, this means, for example, that the operator control unit auto-matically recognizes the unit to which it is installed – and it then provides only the required dialogues. The system transmits ac-quired actual values (such as outdoor temperature) over the net-work and provides them to all connected devices. In addition, GEA is now preparing to launch remote maintenance via Internet and Intranet, as well as autonomous reporting of malfunctions and maintenance information by e-mail, fax, and SMS.
With the innovative control concept of GEA MATRIX, installation, operator control, and service software are identical for all applica-tions and types of equipment. Installation and configuration both follow the same sequence. The terminal designations, for example, are identical for all system components: which saves time during commissioning of the system, and enables fast and systematic in-struction of the customer in the control functions. The users of GEA MATRIX have no trouble in learning how to use the system, since settings at the operator-control stations are all made according to the same principle. And this also means that finding the most com-fortable room climate is even simpler and easier.
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Control Systems
