What is an Integrated Building Management System?

( IBMS)
Buildings are expensive, both to construct, and maintain. You have the cost
of the materials needed for the build, you have the cost of the labor needed to assemble the
structure, and you have the cost of prevention for things like fire and theft. Even the simplest building
can cost millions of dollars. So you'd think that the owners would be looking for ways to reduce their
costs and protect their investments. In fact, they are. One method, in particular, provides the ability
to monitor and maintain the various systems in a building. It's called a building management system.
A building management system is a computer system designed to keep track of, and control, the
various systems in a building. These systems include:

 Power - This includes usage monitoring and flow control to various parts of the building.
 Climate control - Heat, air conditioning, and air circulation, are provided to the various parts
of the building.
 Building entry/exit - Door monitoring and access, intrusion sensor monitoring, and alarms
within the various parts of the building are included.
 Water (pumps) - This amounts to getting the water to the various floors within the building.
 Elevators - Control, surveillance, and access to the cars in the building are included.
 Lights - This provides automated activation/deactivation and power conservation of the many
fixtures in the building.

What integrated means, in terms of a building management system, is that the building's system

management capabilities were part of the building's initial design. In other words, they weren't added
after-the-fact. Take, for example, an extension to a house, like another bedroom. This is something a
lot of families consider when their needs change with time. If the bedroom were integrated, it would
have been designed and built when the rest of the house was. It would exist when you moved in. As
you might imagine, this has a number of benefits, which we'll talk about in a subsequent section.

Luminous flux
luminous flux or luminous power is the measure of the perceived power of light. It
differs from radiant flux, the measure of the total power of electromagnetic
radiation (including infrared, ultraviolet, and visible light), in that luminous flux is adjusted to reflect
the varying sensitivity of the human eye to different wavelengths of light. The SI unit of luminous flux
is the lumen (lm). One lumen is defined as the luminous flux of light produced by a light source that
emits one candela of luminous intensity over a solid angle of one steradian. In other systems of
units, luminous flux may have units of power.

Luminous intensity
 luminous intensity is a measure of the wavelength-weighted power emitted by a light source in a
particular direction per unit solid angle, based on the luminosity function, a standardized model of
the sensitivity of the human eye. The SI unit of luminous intensity is the candela (cd), an SI base
unit.
Photometry deals with the measurement of visible light as perceived by human eyes. The human
eye can only see light in the visible spectrum and has different sensitivities to light of different
wavelengths within the spectrum. When adapted for bright conditions (photopic vision), the eye is
most sensitive to greenish-yellow light at 555 nm. Light with the same radiant intensity at other
wavelengths has a lower luminous intensity. The curve which measures the response of the human
eye to light is a defined standard, known as the luminosity function.
Illumination
Illumination, an observable property and effect of light, may also refer to

 Lighting, the use of light sources

 Illumination (image), the use of light and shadow in art
 Illuminated manuscript, the artistic decoration of hand-written texts
 Global illumination, algorithms used in 3D computer graphics