Ruhr University Bochum

The founding of the RUB in 1962 was the first new university in the young Federal Republic. The university was established outside the city (on a greenfield site) as a campus university in the Bochum district of Querenburg: With the exception of a few outposts, all faculties are housed on the university campus.

On the campus of the Ruhr University Bochum, the newly constructed buildings ID and IDN were equipped with automation stations from DEOS AG in 2010. The new controllers control and regulate all ventilation systems as well as the heating and cooling for the buildings. In addition, individual room control was implemented to meet the various requirements of the rooms, e.g. laboratories, measuring rooms, offices, lecture halls, canteens, etc. A total of fifteen OPEN 4000 EMS automation stations and six OPEN 800 EMS automation stations were installed in the various information focal points of the ID and IDN buildings; approx. 12,000 physical inputs and outputs are recorded via these.

In the entire project, 54,000 BACnet data points were created, of which 16,000 data points are currently connected to the existing higher-level building management system in the HZO building of the Ruhr University by means of BACnet/OPC conversion. A building management system was installed in the ID and IDN buildings that enables convenient operation.