Columns

• Cell Phones, Photo Frames … and BAS?  AKA:  Customer Service Includes Honoring Commitments
  
• Spintelligent Buildings  Entangling marketing and technology
• Back to the Future with BACnet Wireless  Interoperable Wireless … for Real 
• Simply BACnet  Demystifying the World’s Standard for Building Automation Networks
• BACnet Barbeque  A Summer Holiday Perspective
• A Lesson from Vegas (@CES)  or.....Designing for the YTBI
• The Meaning of Open  A Simple Answer to a Sometimes Complicated Question
• Energy Effectiveness  Getting Beyond Energy Efficiency
• Looking In On BACnet  Paths Through the BACnet Maze
• EMS and Traffic Jam Avoidance  A Systems-level Perspective on Energy Management
  
• Putting the ‘M’ in EMS  Energy management from a management perspective
• The Cost(s) of BACnet  Perspectives on BACnet interface pricing 
• Holiday Letter  BACnet International year in review
• BACnet Marketing 3.0  A Short Course in BACnet Product Positioning  
• A “BACnet System” Procurement Challenge The fallacy of equating “standard protocol” with “standard system” 
• BACnet Triple Play  Three ways to win with BACnet Integration 
• BACnet … from the Outside In  Clues to the BACnet Puzzle
• “The Dawn of Convergence …. Or the Eve of Collision?” Another Commentary on BAS-IT Convergence 
• “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors”  A Commentary on BAS-IT Convergence
• BACnet by the Numbers  A twelve step program for kicking the proprietary systems habit 
• OpenEMS  Creating Value Through Open Systems In An Energy Management Context 
• Pay-it-forward  Turning Short-term Stimulus into Long-term Value
• Trust: The Primary Currency in an Open Systems World  It takes work to earn it, care to nurture it and only one poor decision to lose it. 
• A Light at the end of the Wireless Tunnel  BACnet-Zigbee for Building Automation has a Bright Future 
• The Three Little (BACnet) Pigs  A Modern Day Fable of Building Systems Integration
• Building BACnet  2008 BACnet International Conference and Award Ceremony
• The Green Gold Rush  Promoting energy management and building automation systems as important elements in an overall sustainability initiative or green building development is both legitimate and useful.
• Open Systems Opens Doors The Secret Sauce in the BACnet Recipe for Success
  
• The BACnet Puzzle  Why BACnet can be a puzzle to outsiders – and why it matters. 

Professional Information

Andy McMillan is president and CEO of Teletrol Systems Inc., a leading supplier of BACnet-based, IT-friendly building automation solutions. He is also the President of BACnet International, an industry organization serving the needs users and suppliers of BACnet. Andy’s background includes broad open systems marketing and industry development experience as well as strong technical knowledge of distributed automation and information management systems. Andy has been a featured speaker on open systems and automation-IT integration at conferences in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia. Andy has co-authored a book on open systems networking and holds a dozen patents in sensors, automation and software. He has MBA and BSEE degrees from the University of Michigan and is a member of ASHRAE, AEE, PRSM, and IEEE.

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