Rotovill — one industrial site, one TapHome system

At the Rotovill site in Hungary, a single TapHome system runs four interconnected parts — the industrial hall, the two-storey office building, the large service area attached to it, and the warehouse. 104 lighting circuits, 26 ARV (VRF) AC units, 6 Wolf air handlers, 3 heat pumps, 8 underfloor heating zones, 33 blackout shades, 33 venetian blinds, alarm and access control — all under one interface, on a single TapHome Core.

What the system controls

The numbers look big in isolation — until HVAC, shading, alarm and the wall-mounted buttons all run through the same controller. The 33 blackout shades and the 33 venetian blinds run automatically as programmed schedules, not from a remote — while Niko push-buttons let any user override the position by hand. The main entrance is locked against unauthorized entry, and the external barrier can be unlocked from inside.

One interface, four standards

The strength of Rotovill is not in a single technology — it’s in the way TapHome integrates the other vendors’ systems. The whole installation organises itself around four different standards, each one answering to the same Core:

• Modbus — the 26 ARV AC units, the 3 heat pumps, the 6 Wolf air handlers, the ECOVIT weather station and the Barani Meteo wind sensor all talk to TapHome over Modbus. In the mechanical room the three units with the red valve handles are the heat-pump group itself.
• SOMFY Tahoma — the 33 blackout shades and the 33 venetian blinds run on SOMFY Tahoma; the Core drives the entire shading layer.
• SATEL — the large body of motion and door/window sensors integrates through a SATEL alarm panel.
• Niko — wall-mounted Niko push-buttons wire directly into the TapHome inputs, controlling lighting and shading.

One TapHome system — many independent vendors. At Rotovill, HVAC, shading, alarm and the wall buttons aren’t separate islands — they all run under one shared controller. If any of those layers is replaced or extended later, the logic stays inside the Core.

Shades on automation, a button within reach

The two-storey office atrium is wrapped in deep glazed facades, and the motorized louvered shades along the building take over solar-gain management. A press of a wall-mounted Niko button is enough to darken the room when a meeting needs the screen — the override is always there, even while the schedule is running.

The Barani Meteo wind sensor reaches the Core over Modbus, so outdoor wind data lands in the same controller that drives the SOMFY shading layer.

The control cabinet

The whole site is driven by six families of TapHome modules — everything organised around the central Core:

Fourteen 12 DO 12 UI modules carry the 104 lighting circuits and the dozens of button inputs, while two 12 DO modules add further relay capacity for the switched circuits. The MZC handles the 8 underfloor heating zones. All buttons are Niko, wired directly into the TapHome input modules — from there the signals feed into the smart rules that drive the lighting and shading logic.

Team and execution