Automations for a changing world

A company focussed on passion and team work, a brand synonymous with technologically advanced solutions and excellent performances. Products conceived under the aegis of quality and innovative from the point of view of design. Products that make it easy - and gratifying - to work with Bft.

A revolutionised and revolutionary design that leaves the past behind, strongly confirming the company's position and new identity, the result of a strategy that has once again enabled Btf to become a leader of the market.

A design that hits the nail of the head, stressing aspects such as reliability, performance and safety, interpreting them with forms that are simple to read, yet with a great personality, immediately recognisable. Volumes that speak of innovation and technology through straight lines, linked surfaces, profiles and materials that enhance sturdiness, tactile experience and practical installation.

Functionality and usability are to the fore, protagonists of a new design language that reflects the "soul" of the product and tells a story.

The story of a brand-new Bft.

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It is the fruit of a well thought out process, because it was not just a question of planning the graphic restyling of what has become a historic logo, but of interpreting a profound company change in real time and firmly exploiting some of the plus points in Bft's DNA, which had never yet been expressed with the necessary conviction.

The ability to offer advanced technological solutions and the ease of working with Bft: these are two sides of one promise, presented under the motto "Tuned to You" which has now become the company's alternative signature.

Today the company newsletter - directly involving the audience of installers - is integrated with a series of product announcements that reinterpret the format in a more technical key. Bft solutions therefore come out of their box and are revealed in a visual that confirms the indissoluble bond between innovative contents - expressed by a number of key words - and design.

But as words are not enough, the announcement points decidedly towards the new company website; it too is an essential part of a highly coordinated communication structure, introducing increased integration of all instruments.

So if you haven't visited us yet, come along to www.bft.it and return frequently to discover all the surprises that 2012 has in store for you, a year that promises lots of important new features.

In short, we really must say: “Stay Tuned to Us”!

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Urban and metropolitan mobility, or rather "non mobility", has become a problem on a global scale. It afflicts public administrators who are unable to choose innovative methods for the control and management of movements - contrasting with the easier policy of blocking traffic altogether, which does not solve anything - and makes life impossible for people in the town, trapped between a set of lights and a roundabout, between shopping centres, massive traffic jams and non existent parking spaces.

According to an ACI (Italian Automobile Club) survey conducted in Rome and Milan in 2009, every motorist spends approximately 250 hours a year “trapped” in his or her vehicle in urban traffic queues and slowdowns, at a cost of up to 650 euros. The total cost is in the region of 40 billion euros a year.

Bft has been working for some time on the production of a model to support mobility management, that focusses attention on the protection of urban area, improves the quality of life and helps the environment, allowing everyone to enjoy living in the town as though it were a park.

To achieve these objectives, something must be done about traffic flows towards city centres, offering users a range of services that ensure a real alternative to cars.

The Bft system is based on an interconnectivity algorithm that allows the connection of different devices for detecting the state of the access points, which in turn are connected to the GPRS mobile network. The system knows the address (or rather the URL) of the display panel with which it communicates, generating a visual output that transmits fundamental information to the users who are approaching the city: traffic conditions, events (fairs, museum exhibitions, theatres, etc.), the availability of parking spaces, GPS guide to the nearest free car park.

The monitoring of access to the urban zones most susceptible to traffic pressure can be done with licence plate recognition devices, or with hands‑free devices such as the Bft Passy; this is a combined system comprising a one/two-way external antenna that activates a small dual technology transponder remote control fixed inside the vehicle. The transponder is the interface that communicates with the antenna and with the radio system of the access control points. The antenna, located in the vicinity of the automated device, "lights up" the surrounding area with a high-definition microwave signal of 2.40 gHz, with adjustable dimensions and sensitivity. When the small transponder enters the area covered by the antenna transmission it is activated and emits a wave on 433 mHz which is picked up by the Bft radio system of the device controlling the access point.

The vehicle recognition system can be interconnected with access control software such as Bft Securbase, which identifies the vehicle and differentiates between authorised (residents, police, etc.) and occasional users. The latter can be channelled into structured parking areas with systems such as Bft Espas or Maya. Within these areas, free or low-cost alternative mobility services may be available.

Lastly the need to protect our old city centres, with their wealth of historic buildings and monuments that are particularly vulnerable and sensitive to the impact of traffic, and to ensure rational access to the protected spaces (for historic pageants, concerts, occasional social events) can be solved by using bollards such as the Bft Stoppy that allow only authorised users to access the innermost areas.

In short: even when managing urban mobility it is always indispensable to keep "The Big Picture" in mind; that's why the key work can only be "integration".

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So taking part in the Batimat - the most important European fair in the entire building sector, a kind of "building biennale" - is not only a commercial necessity for us, but something completely natural. 

This year we link up ideally to the discussion we began at Equip'Baie 2010, completing it; there we presented our new company identity and new position, with special attention to the audience of installers. 

Now what had been revealed as a concept becomes reality and is accomplished in a stand which is at one and the same time a real "communicating machine" and an ideal stage on which the products play the part of the leading actors.

Perfectly operating products, linked to one another to make up a complete and integrated "system": blinking lights, remote controls, hydraulic and electromechanical operators, automations for garages and industrial doors, bollards and barriers, parking systems, antiterrorism bollards: nearly all the Bft lines are presented to reply to the demands of a more varied audience, closely linked to the sector of infrastructures (designers, companies, public bodies and administrations...).

A range that you can "get your hands on" even at the dedicated info point where, thanks to the use of iPad stations, it is possible to learn more about the offer, looking through the informative material and using the Bft configuring device to compose the different systems in real time.

An open and hospitable stand, set out on two levels, which confirms the direction undertaken last year but which, at the same time, highlights the company's technological soul. A company that has been able to keep its promises and present innovative solutions on the market that simplify the life of the people who use them, but also of those that it chooses as its working partners every day.

Solutions ever more “tuned to you”.

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