Intelligent ventilation, drive and control technology is in demand all over the world today – and demand will certainly increase even further in the future, because energy-efficient ventilation technology is a major factor in global environmental and climate protection. Wherever parts move or processes take place, such as in machines or production plants, air must be provided for cooling. Fans provide the necessary ventilation, cooling, air conditioning or heating, for example with environmentally-friendly heat pumps.
ZIEHL-ABEGG is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and system suppliers of ventilation and control technology. Our extensive portfolio includes a wide variety of fans. During their development, we combined biomimetic design with scientific and engineering knowledge, thus creating highly efficient, economical and therefore particularly environmentally-friendly and climate-friendly systems. Combined with the possibilities of the new EC drive technology and smart electronics for monitoring and control, our fans not only meet the requirements of today, but also make ventilation systems around the world fit for the future.
In order to make optimum use of the possibilities of computer technology both today and tomorrow, as well as to start safely into an even more digitalised future, we offer customers our "Blue Technology": highly intelligent fans from ZIEHL-ABEGG that can be integrated into global networks and enable comprehensive control from anywhere in the world as well as predictive maintenance. The technical prerequisites for this are offered by the ZAbluegalaxy IoT platform, a cloud that we have developed together with Deutsche Telekom on the basis of Microsoft Azure. The information and operation of the ZAbluegalaxy is viewed via a user-friendly, clear and browser-based dashboard. Here users and operators can monitor their systems and have the most up-to-date information displayed at any time.
All ZIEHL-ABEGG fans equipped with the smart sensors can transmit their status, for example, to the ZAbluegalaxy via the IoT gateway in an encrypted form. Here the data is then analysed, visualised and stored in high-security rooms. This offers our customers and users around the world a whole range of advantages: The ZAbluegalaxy can perform Remote monitoring and live analysis, for example, in order to optimise maintenance intervals and no longer maintain them after a fixed cycle, but rather implement as required – this saves time and costs as well as increasing the energy efficiency of the entire system.
Real-time monitoring allows errors and malfunctions, such as temperature overshoots, to be detected more quickly and clearly assigned. As a result, technicians no longer need to search for possible causes of a problem on site, but can head off with the right spare parts already in stock and eliminate problems in a targeted manner.