Articles - September 2001

Industry Restructuring

• TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT: A Critical Issue in Industry Restructuring  How these issues are best resolved are determinations that will be made by those who most successfully navigate the uncharted sea of industry restructuring.  Thomas Hartman, The Hartman Company
  

• What's New and Hot in the Building Automation Market?  One of the exciting new trends in Building Automation today is the growing popularity of Direct Digital Control (DDC) as a measure incorporated with Performance Contracts. John J. "Jack" Mc Gowan, Energy Control Inc
  

• Restructuring for the Componentization Era  Major restructuring of our industry is required and is happening allowing web wise solutions with full integrating of the Componentization Era into powerful enterprise controls. Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com
  

• Remote Management Solutions: Monitoring Energy Consumption for Hospitals and Schools  The ability to remotely monitor stand-alone serial devices in real time is beneficial in any environment where access to information and reducing downtime is critical. Deepak Wanner, Precidia Technologies
  

• Interoperability: Fact Not Fiction  So while these initiatives to create standard communication protocols in new control devices have created opportunities for constructing open system environments, the problem of integration and interoperability still exist because of the economics of inherited systems. Leo Quinn, Tridium 
  

• Industry Restructuring  The capability of today's building automation systems far exceeds the present understandings of the existing implementers. Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com
  

• Technology Driven Efficiency (TDE) Could be a Major E-Business For the Energy and Utilities Industry Business and household consumers will pay for performance but not for a commodity. Kathy O McGrath, Energy E-Comm.com
  

• Try the Request for Proposal Approach  Having problems specifying rapidly evolving building automation?  Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com
  

Case Study

• Perfect Timing  On this kind of chiller retrofit project, your savings are there, says Paul Wolf, chief engineer of One America Plaza. "It would be a very good project for any building, even if energy prices were not increasing."  Bob Stojanovic, ABB Inc

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