Johnson Controls' CMS-2000 Central Monitoring Station Helps Ensure Occupant Safety In Healthcare And Lab Settings

Johnson Controls, the pioneer for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, announces the release of the CMS-2000 Central Monitoring Station. The CMS-2000 helps ensure laboratory and healthcare settings are safe for occupants by providing instant status verification of room pressure, airflow and other important room parameters.

“Monitoring and controlling airflow in critical spaces is a vital component of any healthy buildings strategy,” said Tyler Smith, Vice President, Healthy Buildings for Johnson Controls, adding "The CMS-2000 provides industry-leading features and functionality so lab managers, nurses and other stakeholders can rest assured that their spaces are safer and healthier.”

Monitoring multiple spaces

The CMS-2000 Central Monitoring Station provides instant status verification for up to eight rooms, eight fume hoods, or a combination of rooms and hoods. The CMS-2000 can be used as a nurse station annunciator or to monitor multiple spaces in large laboratories.

The CMS-2000 Central Monitoring Station provides instant status verification for up to eight rooms

Users can access vital information on a single screen to quickly make informed decisions, ensuring that critical spaces are safe for occupancy. The CMS-2000 creates a centralized location to easily access critical information like room pressure, isolation mode, exhaust air flow, face velocity, and alarm status of multiple spaces and fume hoods. If a monitored parameter goes outside its prescribed range, it activates an audible and visual alarm that alerts staff to the alarm condition.

Intuitive user experience

The CMS-2000 features the patented 360° Safety Halo edge lighting that is easily visible down long corridors. The system includes multiple ease-of-use features, including a snooze button that can silence an alarm for a set time to help reduce audible alarm fatigue, and an easily accessible tutorial video that helps quickly train new nursing staff.

“The CMS-2000 provides an intuitive user experience comparable to navigating a mobile device,” said Bill Schwebel, Vice President, Building Automation Systems, Johnson Controls, adding “This reduces the time required to configure the device and simplifies daily interactions by nurses, safety officers and facility managers.”

Updated user experience

The CMS-2000 offers several new features, including:

• An Innovative User Interface - The CMS-2000 offers an updated user experience with an intuitive navigation menu and an easily customizable home screen with enhanced graphics including a 5-inch touchscreen display that offers high-definition resolution and operates even when wearing rubber gloves. The updated menus feature larger, easier to read status and sensor readings. The interface is also available in 18 languages.
• Improved and Simplified User Guides - A new, easily accessible QR code located on the display leads to a tutorial video viewable on a mobile device, supporting frequent staffing rotations. The newest version also offers improved literature with an added troubleshooting guide.
• Non-volatile Memory and Password Protection - The CMS-2000 automatically retains user settings in case of a power outage and offers two levels of password protection to prevent unauthorized access.
• Ability to Create Flexible Facilities Through the Building Automation System (BAS) - The CMS-2000 utilizes BACnet® MS/TP for easy installation, commissioning, control, monitoring and data analytics. It seamlessly integrates into Johnson Controls Metasys and third-party building automation systems.

The CMS-2000 communicates on its own subnet with the FMS-2000C and HMS-1655 family of controllers.