Opto 22
- Opto 22 develops and manufactures reliable, easy-to-use hardware and
software products for industrial automation, energy management, remote
monitoring, and data acquisition applications. The company's latest
product, groov,
makes it easy to build and view operator interfaces from anywhere,
using any browser-enabled device, any screen size, from any
manufacturer.
Cylon Energy.
Cylon Energy Inc is the North American division of Cylon Controls a
pioneer and a recognised international leader in the development of
smart energy management systems for buildings for over 27
years.
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01/01/2014
11:22 AM 2014. Trends to Keep Your Eyes On They
are in no particular order of significance, and by no means capture all
of the trends that are affecting our industry. - Marc Petock, Vice
President, Marketing, Lynxspring
01/01/2014
11:21 AM Smart Buildings Predictions for 2014 The
next big leap will be the development of software applications that not
only can identify a system fault, but can automatically correct it. -
Jim Sinopoli PE, LEED BD+C, RCCD, Managing Principal, Smart Buildings
LLC
01/01/2014
11:20 AM Energy Conservation Will Take Centre Stage in 2014 Having
struggled for the last 15 years to get these environmental services to
work together we have now reached a point where connectivity can be
achieved directly through IP allowing the "Internet of Energy" to
become a reality. - Allan McHale, Director, Memoori
01/01/2014
11:20 AM Generic Language for EnOcean Networks With
Generic Profiles, the EnOcean Alliance has further developed the
standardized interoperable communication of energy harvesting wireless
solutions. It allows multi-functional products that flexibly adapt to a
variety of applications. - Marian Honsch, Generic Profiles Team Leader,
Technical Working Group, EnOcean Alliance
01/01/2014
11:19 AM Being 'Smart' Will Bring Smart Building Success The
critical success factors can be different for each building or
stakeholder involved in the project. - William Rhodes, Research
Manager, Lighting and LEDs, IHS Technology
01/01/2014
11:18 AM Defining a Smart Building: Part Five We
complete the definition of a smart building by addressing HVAC,
communication and data infrastructure, access control systems, advanced
building management systems and sustainability. - Jim Sinopoli PE, LEED
BD+C, RCCD, Managing Principal, Smart Buildings LLC
01/01/2014
11:18 AM The Future of Building Energy Savings Uniting Building Automation & Utilities - Zach Denning, Engineering Sales, Western Allied Mechanical
01/01/2014
11:17 AM A Question of Gravity Who Owns the Future of Smart Buildings and Cities? - Therese Sullivan, Principal, www.buildingcontext.me
01/01/2014
11:17 AM Maximize your AHR Expo Experience Use
Social Media to build brand awareness and boost traffic at your booth.
- Manny Mandrusiak, Managing Creative Consultant, 4 Bravo Marketing
01/01/2014
11:16 AM Still Another Collection of Short Stories Back to the well - Steven R. Calabrese, Control Engineering Corp.
01/01/2014
11:16 AM Controls Retrofits Preserving Smoke Control - Paul Ehrlich, Ira Goldschmidt & Angela Lewis, Building Intelligence Group
01/01/2014
11:15 AM Collaborating Convergence and the Changing Industry This
December column is about "Collaborating Convergence" or as I like to
joke "The Gear Heads meet the C-suite"…..smile. I think we all have
accepted that the convergence model is inevitable, but I am not sure we
understood how much we all would have to collaborate to insure
successful convergence. - Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings
01/01/2014
11:14 AM "Control by the People For the People" a
software layer that incorporates occupants as sensors for the building,
saving energy and improving comfort at the same time. - Lindsay Baker,
VP, Research and Marketing, Building Robotics, Inc.
01/01/2014
11:14 AM How Building Managers can Visualize Big Data Big
Data specifically means better ways to maintain equipment and more
intelligent fault detection and prediction, or smarter ways to approach
diagnostics as a whole. - Brian Turner, President, Controlco
01/01/2014
11:13 AM Industrial Internet of Things: Think
of it as Control Networking 2.0 The Industrial Internet of Things
(IIoT) is the next generation, or version 2.0, of traditional control
networking. - Varun Nagaraj, Senior VP and General Manager, Internet of
Things, Echelon Corp.
01/01/2014
11:12 AM The Truth Behind Building Automation Revealing DDC fact from fiction - Zach Denning, Engineering Sales, Western Allied Mechanical
01/01/2014
11:11 AM "Life Cycle Costing of Intelligent Buildings" The
core objective of the research report is to identify what needs to be
done, and by whom, to make life cycle costing a mainstream criteria for
building system evaluation in North America. - Ron Zimmer, President
& CEO CABA
01/01/2014
11:11 AM BACnet International and the Connections Community The
more engaged the building community is, from engineers and architects
to facility managers and owners, the faster standards and solutions
will evolve to meet their needs. - Andy McMillan, President, BACnet
International
01/01/2014
11:10 AM Niagara Community Based
on the number of Niagara instances deployed today, we estimate that the
Niagara Community has connected over 20 million devices into a wide
range of applications both inside and outside of intelligent buildings.
- John Sublett, Chief Technology Officer, Tridium.
01/01/2014
11:09 AM In 2014, Every Business Will Be Disrupted By Open Technology This is a great read and plays well to our January issue themed "Concurrent Collaboration".
01/01/2014
11:08 AM 2013 in the rear view mirror A quick review of signifcant change in 2013 and insight into our AHRExpo education sessions
01/01/2014
11:07 AM Across My Desk Every
month there is a blizzard of information contained in the emails and
newsletters that cross my desk on their way to AutomatedBuildings.com.
Some of this information is not in the form of any type of content we
can publish but I feel I should share with you these snippets, blog
bits, and url links that are about to fall off my desktop.
01/01/2014
11:06 AM New Products for January A brief description of some new products for the industry.