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International Air-Conditioning, Heating, Refrigerating Exposition (AHR Expo)
February 7th-9th, 2000

"State of the Art" Capabilities in Building Automation  
Come and listen as we explore the latest advances in "Intelligent Building Systems."  This FREE 1/2 hour presentation will offer attendees a quick overview of everything from the basics to the outer limits of Building Automation and Integration.  See how far the automation of Commercial and Residential buildings has gone in the year 2000 and find out how these advanced capabilities might benefit you.

Presented By:
Ken Sinclair, Editor, AutomatedBuildings.com
David J. Branson, Sr VP, Compliance Services Group, Inc.

December Update includes a new feature - our Web Site Map located on the home page, plus a rework of your favourite resource our link library. The large number of links was becoming an issue to download for readers using low speed access. The link library has been restructured into four sections with an index page. The smaller segments load much faster and allow us the ability to expand this service. Several new sections have also been added: Independent Automation Representatives, Component & Product Distributors, Commissioning & Optimization Providers, and Network Service Providers.

A new library resource Acronyms & Definitions has also been added to help you keep current with all the annoying acronyms that we must learn to understand our future. Please send us more as you find them.

Please help me present the actual facts by sharing your views and/or late breaking concepts. Email sinclair@automatedbuildings.com  or call 250-656-5378, Pacific Standard Time. Your input will be reflected in my presentation. It would be great if you could come out and join us at this ASHRAE joint chapter meeting. Contact the local Chapters for details. http://www.ggashrae.org/calendr.htm  

It is also timely that the November issue of our online Ezine "The Automator" has the theme "How the Web is Changing Our Industry". Several great industry articles on this subject are now online. 

This issue's cartoon pokes fun at a serious concern, the digital haves and have nots in our industry. As part of the industry embraces the information revolution and our convergence, another part is attempting to carry on business as it did in the past, ignoring the signs of change. Our industry is too small to be divided; reach out and help someone who is struggling with the rapid technological changes we must all go through.

Have you tried our new feature the Site Search Engine?  Give it a try, it's fun and you will find lots of neat articles and links on our site. Looking for articles by Hartman?  Type in Hartman and hit start. Click on articles or reviews you want to view.  If you wish to search the actual matched document for a keyword use the Find Function on your browser, usually "Ctrl F".  Use our search feature to see if you are linked to us, and where.

As you can see we have been busy responding to your requests and look forward to continuing to shape AutomatedBuilding.com into your Internet Automation Resource.

Our next issue of "The Automator" is January 1st 2000 and will be our Dallas AHR Show Issue. Our theme for the issue will be Automated Buildings in the 21st Century.  As usual we are always looking for good industry articles and will be providing space for preview articles for vendors at the show.  Please get your articles in early to avoid the Christmas crunch - deadline December 10, 1999.  Send to news@automatedbuildings.com.

Previous Favorites is a new feature. We add the article most viewed in the previous issue.
- September's issue favorite was Notifact Systems'
Combining Wireless Technology and Internet -- Seamlessly
- July's issue was Tom Hartman's great article prepared just for our official launch
Network Control: A New Paradigm For HVAC
- May/June's favourite was
Your Building Address as a .com?

We are also always upgrading our Events Calendar so take a look.

This is not just a spectator sport, please send your articles, new releases and new product information to us.  Click here to see article format.  If you are pushed for time send us an email and we will format your message to the industry and your clients.  Take a look at our When Automation becomes Art article which originally was an email.

Headlines

• Raytheon Control-By-Light Fiber Optic Transceiver Receives LONMARK^R Approval for Intelligent Building Control Networks.
  Raytheon's Transceiver is First to Implement EIA Fiber Optic Standard
  Raytheon Control-By-Light^TM, a leader in distributed sensing and fiber optic technology applications, announced today that its fiber optic modular transceiver has received LONMARK^R approval for use in open multi-vendor LONWORKS^R control networks. See Complete Press Release

• Echelon Unveils the Future of the Internet with the i.LON™ IP Server Breakthrough Product Connects Everyday Devices to the Web (Amsterdam, The Netherlands - October 13, 1999) - Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) launched the next great Internet wave today by unveiling the i.LON™ 1000 IP Server. Developed and certified under the Cisco NetWorks™ program, the i.LON 1000 is a breakthrough new product that can bring billions of everyday devices into the Internet.  See Complete Press Release

• AutomatedBuildings.com to speak at the joint meeting of the Golden Gate and San Jose ASHRAE Chapters on Dec 2nd at the San Mateo Marriott. See Article

• Australians to form a BACnet Interest Group! Sydney, Australia. One result of the BACnet symposium held in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday, September 30, is that those present have decided to embark on the formation of a BACnet Interest Group in Australia. News Briefs 

News Releases (Updated December/99)

• News Briefs:  Virtual private networks (VPNs);  ABB Power T&D Company, Inc. provides a low-cost, cellular-based communications solution for the utility market;  LonWorks implemented on Fiber Optics SEC PS3 and Raytheon Control-by-Light Team up to sell and support LonWorks on Fiber Optic Cable;  The Canadian Team - Green Building Challenge 2000;  CSI Control Systems International Inc. announces new chief information officer.
• Raytheon Control-By-Light to Provide Fiber Optic Links for Advanced Security System at Puerto Rico Telephone Co.
• Delta is hosting live demonstrations of "BACnet™ in MOTION" aboard the BACbus, a mobile training and presentation facility.
• ICONICS Releases WEB HMI based on Microsoft DNA Technology WEBHMI Connects Process Data to the Desktop using DNA, DCOM and OPC
• CASI-RUSCO Announces Access Vision™ for Picture Perfect™
• ICONICS Releases 3rd Generation OPC Productivity Tools and Rapid Development Toolkit
• Raytheon Control-By-Light Fiber Optic Transceiver Receives LONMARK^R Approval for Intelligent Building Control Networks.
• CASI-RUSCO'S New Access Vision Imaging for Picture Perfect™ Provides Superior Badging Functions
• Invensys Building Systems Announces the Acquisition of TeCom
• PC Soft Extends LonWorks Technology to the Web Innovative tools reduce development time and costs of Web-based HMI applications.
• Raytheon Control-By-Light to Provide Distributed Fiber Optic Networking Products to Electronic Systems USA, Inc.
• CASI-RUSCO Unveils Powerful Enterprise Access Control and Alarm Monitoring System for Midsize and Large Organizations.
• SmartAMERICA Parent/Development Partner IHG Debuts First Commercially Available Intelligent Home Gateway.
• New Products:  DGH Systems is proud to announce our new InterVisor software for Carel controls;  Opto 22 SNAP Ethernet I/O;  Air Monitor Corporation's VOLU-flo/ OAM;  CASI-RUSCO'S Picture Perfect™ System

News Releases (Updated November/99)

• News Briefs Echelon's (NASDAQ: ELON) LonWorks® system announced the public launch of their new alliance; OPC Interoperability Week demonstrates interworking of OPC products; Australians to form a BACnet Interest Group!; Silicon Energy Raises $14.3 Million In Venture Capital;  BACnet/IP is now an ANSI standard; EnstoNet has incorporated Echelon Corporation's (NASDAQ: ELON) LPT-10 Link Power transceiver into it's new KDR relay box.
• Three Books for our Industry
• Echelon Unveils the Future of the Internet with the i.LON™ IP Server
• LIGHTFAIR INTERNATIONAL 2000...The Lighting Industry's World Event
• Echelon Previews Upcoming LonMaker for Windows

• OPC Foundation Backs XML and Microsoft BizTalk Framework

• Staefa MS1800 expands capabilities and flexibility with upgrade
• Staefa provides Indoor Air Quality solutions

• TAC signs a co-operation agreement with Echelon broadening its role as a systems integrator within the field of building automation

• New Products Reliable Controls MultiNet MACH-air controller; Power Measurement's New 7500 ION Energy & Power Quality Meter; Spartan Peripheral Devices' NEW VE-4000 SERIES 2-or 3-way System Control Valves and Actuator Linkage Kits; Simplex Announces Release of Celestra™ 2000 Digital Display Clocks; Veris Industries Inc's Enercept® Networked (Modbus RTU) Power Meters

News Releases (Updated October/99) 

• News Briefs Delta Control Products, Inc., Veterans Administration Awards $29 Million Contract to DukeSolutions, Duke Solutions wins $19 Million Contract for Canadian Landmark, Fluke Network Inspector Version 4.0 Adds Network Diagramming Capability With Visio Enterprise 2000, BACnet to Become ISO "Committee Draft"
• Andover Controls Introduces CONTINUUM(tm) VT-1 Voice Telecom Module
• Cost and Value in Building Green - Asian Centre, University of British Columbia
• News from Cristal Controls on Lonwork's low voltage lighting control systems
• National Summit Gathers Industry Leaders to Explore New Strategies for Achieving Workplace Excellence
• Connexus Energy Launches New Environmental Monitoring Services Partners with PureChoice, Inc. on the PureTracTM System
• Setra Systems Introduces New Low Pressure Sensors for Improved Energy Management
• Setra Systems Introduces the New Model 267MR Multi-Range Pressure Transducer For Low Differential Pressure Measurements

Articles for November

• Are Automated Buildings Converging or Colliding With The Internet?  Is our industry listening to the wake up calls of the information revolution?  Ken Sinclair
• Three Projects Converge "With Infinity's web access, we can make our facility available to researchers all around the world. It doesn't matter where they are located as long as they have a computer and Internet access."  Priscilla B. Janson
• Staefa Provides HVAC Control and Building Solutions Online  Staefa designed its Web site to provide important industry, training and company news to HVAC professionals.  Kristin Mahoney
• The Internet in The Building  What is the value of "convergence" to Architects and Owners? Has Internet connectivity in some form or other become as mandatory as plumbing in modern design and construction?  Ken Clarke
• Interoperability Demo & BACnet Seminar in Australia  Alerton Technologies, Automated Logic, Delta and Simplex got together and put on a BACnet demo in Sydney, Australia.  Melinda Bartee
• Central Building Utilities Metering System at Yale University  Clients within or outside Yale can access the data available on the Maxnet by browser. Viktor Boed
• Control Valve Technology Terminology is the most confusing part of our control industry. D.S. McIntosh
• The Use of Low-Cost Data Loggers in Monitoring Building Systems Performance explains the benefits of using low-cost data loggers for monitoring the performance of various building systems.  Gregg M. Daly & Hugh J. Flye,
• Central Washington University $2 Million Investment  "energy management system consists of 5 native BACnet operator workstations and over 500 native BACnet central plant and VAV controllers."  Melinda Bartee

Novembers' Product, Software and Web Site Reviews

• AEE On-Line Courses  AEE offers seminars on-line in order to provide students, regardless of location or time constraints, the opportunity to participate in continuing education courses.
• Simplex's Architect and Engineer Community Web Site  This site has been designed to meet your requirements for timely, accurate and quality information on products, industry codes, and design applications

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