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Open access to vendor control languages Or more control, less vendors.
BMS 2.0 Monetizing building services
Visual Depictions of Data Visual depictions of data are almost universally understood without requiring knowledge of language
Cyber-Security For the last ten years the whole industry has been talking about IP, Web, interoperability and open systems. Security however, has been mostly left behind, somewhere in the pre-internet age.
Mashup Data World data never sleeps.
Business Intelligence and Building Automation Analytics Every intelligent management decision will pay back quickly. The question is, are we able to distinguish information from terabytes of data?

Connecting Building Automation to Everything In an ideal world, we will be able to be vendor and protocol independent. Everything will talk to everything.

Protocol Positioning from Field to Cloud Everyone will be forced to open up all network layers, and we will achieve at the speed of light full-scale interoperability and manageability. The enterprises will become as a node in the cloud creating an absolutely new perception of the organization and society in whole.

From the Silo to Open Collaborative Facility Internetworks Today we have to anticipate a new kind of network in the facility - The Facility Network. That particular network has to be developed before the building automation subsystem details.

As an experienced senior executive with a more than 20 years in the communication and building automation business Mr.Kurtalj has always been trying to establish clear win-win solution for building owners and Elma Automation Division through application of the open automation concept. He is one of the pioneers in deploying Open System (LonWorks, Modbus) automation building infrastructure in Croatia and the Mediterranean area. He guided his team in successful automation, based on an open system paradigm, of facilities like data centers with more than 20 equipment manufacturers spread over various protocols and more than 1000 devices. His team has experience in automation of buildings sized up to 300000ft2 with up to 2000 devices, integrated in a single LonWorks network. Six years ago he initiated development of BrightCore framework, which was awarded with LonMark's international software product of the year award last year at LONCOM2009.

The base for that development and achievement was the new LonWorks software stack, which could transform any IP device with OS to IP LonWorks device that could be commissioned in standard LonWorks commissioning tool. The stack is developed in Elma and currently works on both platforms Windows and Linux from small DIN rail embedded devices to big 19” rack servers.

Mr. Kurtalj was participated as a speaker in events in Europe as well in US and Middle East. He was a speaker during Connectivityweek2009, as well as RealTech Middle East 2010 and many local Croatian conferences.

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