Room Climate Control at the University Hospital Basel
Integrated patient-room climate monitoring and control at University Hospital Basel.
Industry: Healthcare Organization: University Hospital Basel (USB) Location: Basel, Switzerland Year: 2024
At a Glance
Room controllers
More than 160, integrated through BACnet
Comfort band
21–23 °C, with humidity and dew point monitored
Digital twin
Interactive 3D BIM at room level
Upgrade effort
Minimal additional engineering
Overview
University Hospital Basel needed a simple way to read and control individual patient-room conditions across historically grown, multi-vendor building systems. Maintaining a temperature of 21–23 °C while considering humidity, dew point, blinds, and window contacts is important for both patient comfort and energy efficiency.
Implementation
More than 160 patient-room controllers were connected through BACnet, while M-Bus and Modbus provided further system integration. BuildingPro Suites harmonizes these sources and makes each controller and datapoint available through a common interface.
An interactive BIM model lets operators navigate to a room and identify its controller in the building context. The same data remains accessible through the standard hierarchical asset view.
Benefits
Room conditions are continuously visible and controllable from one interface.
Non-specialist users can access relevant information without using separate expert systems.
The open architecture supports additional alarms, analyses, and reports.
Existing and future building technology can be integrated with little additional engineering.
The project shows how an open platform can make complex technical infrastructure usable while supporting comfort and sustainability requirements in a hospital.
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