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ABB Cylon® ASPECT®

Web enabled building automation and energy management.

Seamlessly integrating buildings and business.
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ABB Cylon® ASPECT®
brings building management
into your everyday work

If you’re confident using mainstream business Award-winning

tools, then you’ve already mastered ABB Cylon® Award-winning ABB Cylon® ASPECT® is a
ASPECT® building energy management system. powerful and dynamic interface that allows
users to monitor and control their facilities from
anywhere at any time. ABB Cylon® ASPECT®
provides the tools you need to gain insight into
your buildings’ performance and arms you with
the intelligence to react to any situation that
may adversely affect energy costs, business
Schedule a meeting performance and ultimately, your bottom line.
If you can use a corporate calendar to schedule
a meeting, then you can adjust a room for zone Straightforward and uncomplicated
occupancy. With ABB Cylon® ASPECT® you no longer need to
learn how to operate a separate, proprietary
building energy management system (BEMS) to
get real-time information, analyse data, make
operational decisions, or even to change settings.
You can do it all, more naturally, through the
business programs and Apps you are already
Turn on lights using on your computer, tablet and smart phone.
If you can use an App on your smart phone,
then you can turn lights on in Shanghai from • HTML5 format allows users to view web content
your office in London. on multiple devices without using Flash and
third-party plug-ins. Facilities managers and
end users can modify trends, set-points,
schedules and more – on the fly – from
web-enabled PCs and mobile devices.
• By leveraging push notification services such
as Twitter® and PushOver®, ABB Cylon®
Get a message on PushOver® ASPECT® sends reliable instant notices to
If you can get a message on PushOver®, then AndroidTM, iOS® or desktop devices in greater
you can know instantly when a critical system is detail than traditional SMS.
down.

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Manage your building the same
way you manage your business
with ABB Cylon® ASPECT®.
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• With the integration of Internet weather • Reports can be generated and sent via email –
resources, ABB Cylon® ASPECT® can predict automatically – at regularly scheduled intervals
energy loads and other building energy or immediately, when triggered by equipment
management requirements. With some simple failures and alarms.
custom programming, BEMS routines can • ABB Cylon® ASPECT® provides enhanced
automatically shift during unseasonal weather design and operational efficiencies when
patterns to ensure optimal comfort and energy used with Unitron and the CB Series of
use. BACnet® controllers.

Work with what

you already know
ABB Cylon® ASPECT® technology works seamlessly with
commonly-used business tools and any standard Internet browser.*

* Google Chrome®,
Microsoft® Internet Explorer,
Safari®, Firefox® and Opera®
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Fast programming & productivity –
increased safety & security

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01 programming
& productivity • Project templates are configured with limits
and default property values that reflect the
target platform. Deployment seatbelt checks
recommended limits per target platform.
ABB Cylon® ASPECT® combines real-time • Interface via eXplore Touch Screen
integrated control, supervision, data logging, Use eXplore graphical Touch Screen to display
alarming, scheduling and network management a range of colorful icons and custom command
functions with Internet connectivity and web menus, providing end users with quick and
serving capabilities. Guidelines help to create easy feedback of the access control operation.
projects that run more efficiently and faster Customise the App to display and control
to develop. designated points.
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01 safety & security
encrypted.
• As a component of a 21CFR11 system,
ABB Cylon® ASPECT® is able to track where
and when system changes were made, and
Cyber criminals are crafty, but ABB Cylon® who made them.
ASPECT® puts some extremely effective barriers
in their way. Integration with SSL and HTTPS
takes security to a whole new level of fortification
against hacking and unauthorized intrusions.
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The leading building management
software platform
for managing building performance
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Trend Charting provides you with
powerful analysing and reporting
Straightforward and uncomplicated ABB Cylon® tools to use no matter where you
ASPECT® is a leading energy management and
analytics platform that uncovers savings and
have decided to record historical
improves performance. The unique and intuitive data. Charting options allow you
analytics along with powerful reporting tools make
your job easier and increases building value.
to select trends from a tree rather
than a table, saving development
The ABB Cylon® ASPECT® dashboard interface is
all about you: keeping watch over your concerns,
time.
helping you take care of your responsibilities, and
providing the insight that will help you achieve
your objectives. It’s easy to individualise the
dashboard for the work that you do.
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• Building data that is stored and retrieved • Expanded control templates

through MySQL® or SQLite databases allow for HVAC equipment.
for simplified data use through programs like • Backward compatibility/upgrades
SAP® Crystal Reports and Microsoft Excel®. for existing systems.
• Energy data, trends, reasons, data anomalies, • Enterprise tools, such as mapping,
user changes and more can be mined and for larger portfolios.
formulated into reports through programs • Trend Charting with up to 9000
that are already being used. samples per project.
• Simplify energy management by implementing • Up to 45 exceptions entries per schedule.
enterprise-wide policies through batch changes • Compatibility with CXproHD.
to set-points and schedules. CXproHD provides efficient site configuration.
• Compatibility with MATRIX Series and NEXUS • Data from CXproHD can be easily imported into
Series to support a range of buildings, from ASPECT® making your project easy to engineer
skyscrapers to smaller multi-site applications. and deliver. All point values are automatically
• An extensive graphics library enhances populated and ready for immediate use in
usability and reduces training time. ASPECT-Studio™, reducing project development
and engineering time.
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An ABB Cylon® ASPECT®
for every solution

Multiple Building Portfolios

NEXUS Series gives you access to traditional BEMS
capabilities, centralised web access, historical database
storage and more. They provide rigorous building control
routines for facilities anywhere in the world.

ABB Cylon® ASPECT®-Enterprise provides the same

extensive BEMS features, installed on VmWare servers to
meet common IT specifications for hosting by the end-user.
This gives you greater freedom and fewer restrictions for
on-site installations.

Smaller Buildings
The MATRIX Series of network engines provides traditional
building control features such as alarming, scheduling,
trending and custom programming. The result is a flexible
area control solution for BEMS.

Put it all together

ABB Cylon® ASPECT®-Studio, our innovative and simplified
system design tool, makes it easy to build and configure
your BEMS to match the way you work. This graphical
programming tool is used to create and define the system,
including logical sequences, historical entities, schedule
functions and user interface environments. It allows you to
view and change BEMS settings from web-enabled devices
with no additional plug-ins or engineering.
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ABB Cylon® ASPECT® is the most interconnected,

scalable building energy management and
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analytics platform, specifically designed for Globally serving all building sizes,
commercial buildings and the people who
operate them.
comprehensive ABB Cylon®
ASPECT® building solution
ABB Cylon® ASPECT® offers improved usability,
a value-added and simplified licensing module,
simplifies integration by using a
flexible configurations, software integrations secure platform that easily scales
integration system and application data that
allows the creation of building operations easier
to meet application requirements
to monitor, manage and optimise. for today and tomorrow.
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ABB Cylon® ASPECT®
System Architecture
Internet
Remote Web Browser,
MATRIX-11 Mobile Applications and Tools
ASPECT®-Studio
eXplore CXproᴴᴰ ASPECT®-Enterprise
Internet
Internet
Remote Web Browser,
MATRIX-11 Mobile Applications and Tools
Ethernet, TCP/IP, BACnet/IP, FT/Net, XML, HTTP, Modbus® TCP, Unitron/IP
ASPECT®-Studio
FBXi-X256 1 ... 16 FLX eXplore
FBXi-X256 CXproᴴᴰ
1 ... 16 FLX ASPECT®-Enterprise
FBXi-X48

Internet

eXplore eXplore FusionAir FusionAir CBT-STAT-H

Ethernet, TCP/IP, BACnet/IP, FT/Net, XML, HTTP, Modbus® TCP, Unitron/IP

FBXi-X256 1 ... 16 FLX FBXi-X256

Sensor bus 1 ... 16 FLX FBXi-X48
Sensor bus

NEXUS MATRIX CBXi-8R8 CBXi-8R8-H FLX-PS24

eXplore eXplore FusionAir FusionAir CBT-STAT-H

Sensor bus Sensor bus

CBT-STAT bus
Modbus® RTU

Modbus® RTU

Modbus® RTU
BACnet® MSTP

BACnet® MSTP

BACnet® MSTP

BACnet® MSTP

NEXUS MATRIX CBXi-8R8 CBXi-8R8-H FLX-PS24

CBX-8R8 CBX-8R8 CBX-8R8-H

CBT-STAT bus
Modbus® RTU

Modbus® RTU

Modbus® RTU
BACnet® MSTP

BACnet® MSTP

BACnet® MSTP

BACnet® MSTP

CBX-8R8 CBX-8R8 FusionAir Modbus® RTU

CBX-8R8 CBX-8R8 CBX-8R8-H

Sensor bus
CBX-8R8 CBT-STAT Modbus® RTU

CBV-2U4-3T FusionAir FBVi-2U4-4T

CBX-8R8 CBX-8R8 FusionAir Modbus® RTU

CBT-STAT bus
Sensor bus
Modbus® RTU
UCU FBVi-2U4-4T-N
CBV-2U4-3T CBT-STAT
FusionAir
Sensor bus
CBV-2U4-3T CBT-STAT Room
CBX-8R8 CBT-4T4-2U1R Display
Modbus® RTU

CBV-2U4-3T FusionAir FBVi-2U4-4T

Sensor bus CBT-STAT bus Room display bus

CBT-STAT bus
Sensor bus
Modbus® RTU
UCU FBVi-2U4-4T-N
CBV-2U4-3T FusionAir CBV-2U4-3T CBT-STAT Room
MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD
CBT-4T4-2U1R Display

MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD

Sensor bus CBT-STAT bus Room display bus

MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD

MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD MOD

FBXi-X256 / CBXi-8R8 / CBX-8R8 FLX-8R8 -H FBVi-2U4-4T NEXUS Series FusionAir Smart Sensor

CBXi-8R8-H / CBX-8R8-H FLX-4R4-H

FBVi-2U4-4T-N MATRIX Series CBT-STAT
CBV-2U4-3T FLX-PS24

FLX-8R8 / FLX-4R4 / FLX-16DI CBT-4T4-2U1R eXplore UCU Room Display

FBXi-X256 / CBXi-8R8 / CBX-8R8 FLX-8R8 -H FBVi-2U4-4T NEXUS Series FusionAir Smart Sensor

CBXi-8R8-H / CBX-8R8-H FLX-4R4-H

FBVi-2U4-4T-N MATRIX Series CBT-STAT
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