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Answers to Frequently Asked Questions Who is ESSI? Electronic System Services Inc. is a 20 year old company based in Fort Myers, Florida with a satellite office in Boca Raton ESSI specializes in Direct Digital Control Systems for primarily schools, but also large office buildings, multistory tenant space buildings, medical centers, hospitals, colleges, institutional, large church campuses, local government buildings and libraries. Concentrating on multiple protocols machine-to-machine integration linking intelligent devices together to speak over a common platform, we boast one of the largest engineering departments and the highest volume of schoolwork for any local control contractor in the Southwest Florida area. We have extensive experience controlling equipment in buildings to maintain temperature, humidity, duct pressure, fan speeds, Carbon Dioxide and Monoxide level, water volume, air volume, and many other engineering variables. Florida Power & Light representatives suggest that ESSI may have done more TES (Thermal Energy Storage) systems than any other controls contractor in the state. Most Field built-up mechanical equipment controlled by our systems are very diverse chilled water, dual-path, variable air volume devices, with primary /secondary pumping that also encompass thermal energy ice storage systems. ESSI provides graphical user interfaces for systems through the use of 3 dimensional graphics served up through thick or thin client applications.
What’s the big deal about BACnet? BACnet was built from the ground up as a Building Automation and Control standard protocol. It is the most widely accepted method* of passing management level information between systems in the building services industry and the only standard protocol really designed and suited for transmitting complex information such as schedules, calendars, trend logs, alarms and event notification. In applications that require multi-building or campus coordination of sub-networks, BACnet is your best solution. Alerton is a leader is BACnet development and was the first to develop a top-to-bottom native BACnet system. ESSI exists to help design professionals and building owners make the important, long term decisions and to provide the best solution to match their needs.
Are the new building control systems hard to learn? ESSI is anxious to teach you as much as you are willing to learn. As a BACnet systems provider, we treat knowledge the same as we treat technology: the more standardized, the more effective it is. Between the ease of use of new systems and ESSI’s training programs - staffed with experienced control systems engineers - you will find BACnet systems very user-friendly.
* by ASHRAE - The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers.
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