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08/01/2011
12:41 PM "The
Past and Future of Control Languages" A call to the industry to speed their evolution to open
protocol for control languages. - Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com
08/01/2011
12:40
PM Roadmap
for Control Programming Language Evolution
A roadmap towards an open
control programming language is to define an open instruction set for a control
device to interpret. - Nirosha Munasinghe MBusIT BSc BE (Hons) (Melb) Product
Development Manager, Open General
08/01/2011
12:40
PM Embracing
Change In today's
commercial building market most, dare I say almost all, facilities are still
reminiscent of the early days of building automation. - Bob Wallace, President
of Building Clouds, LLC
08/01/2011
12:39
PM The
Unheralded Network Topology RS-485 may be the "forgotten" or "taken for granted" "boring'
network, but it is the mainstay of many building and industrial automation
systems. - Jim Sinopoli PE, RCDD, LEED AP Managing Principal, Smart Buildings
LLC
08/01/2011
12:38
PM "Would
you run your business without financial analysis tools?"
Analytics do not have to be
complicated to deliver valuable, actionable results that save facility operators
real dollars. - John Petze, C.E.M., Partner, SkyFoundry
08/01/2011
12:38
PM Where
Should We Start When Developing A Smart Grid?
Demand response and pricing
signals to homes and businesses could be better achieved via the internet
through a combination of Home Area Networks and Energy Management software. -
Allan McHale, Director, Memoori
08/01/2011
12:37
PM Emergency
Preparedness A
New Technology Takes a Fresh Approach to Meeting Building Owners' Needs - Mark
Sereci, CEO and President of Digitexx Data Systems
08/01/2011
12:36
PM Specifying
Energy Management & Integration Software
In a growing and rapidly
changing marketplace for energy management and integration software, it's
important to take a methodical approach in the procurement and deployment of an
EMS and focus not so much on the marketplace but rather your unique requirements
and building operations. - Jim Sinopoli PE, RCDD, LEED AP Managing Principal,
Smart Buildings LLC
08/01/2011
12:35
PM The
Security Industry Is Not For Turning Terrorism, safety, and shrinkage issues have not gone
away, but it is the adoption and application of new technologies that is playing
the major part in driving the industry forward. - Allan McHale, Director,
Memoori
08/01/2011
12:34
PM Energy
Monitoring and Management FieldServer Technologies providing Cisco EnergyWise gateways to
link building automation devices and systems to Cisco EnergyWise domain. -
Richard Theron, National Sales Manager for FieldServer Technologies
08/01/2011
12:33
PM "One-Click'
HMI to visualize real-time data across the enterprise
By seeing the data in real-time
across the enterprise maintenance schedules can be predicted and the asset
lifetime can be extended. Ken Eldridge, Open Automation Software
08/01/2011
12:32
PM More
on the Engineered Systems High Performance Buildings Conference
The program is full of speakers
covering a range of topics that span all building systems, from the envelope to
HVAC and lighting, to building automation and controls, to metering, dashboards
and Smart Grid integration. - Jeffrey Seewald, Building Intelligence
Group
08/01/2011
12:32
PM Gas
Detection (1 of 2) Always check to see the guidelines that any particular municipality
follows, or solicit the advice of your local expert! - Steven R.
Calabrese, Control Engineering Corp.
08/01/2011
12:29
PM How
to produce a winning webcast / Product Demo
Webcasts are generally an
extremely cost efficient way of interacting with perspective clients. - Manny
Mandrusiak, 4 Bravo Marketing
08/01/2011
12:28
PM Bringing
Schedules into Building Design and Operation
Facilities that understand their
energy use will be able to control economic risk through committing advance
purchases of energy on a schedule. - Toby Considine, T9
08/01/2011
12:27
PM Variable
Frequency Drives and Building Automation Part 1 Proper Selection - Paul Ehrlich, Ira Goldschmidt
& Angela Lewis, Building Intelligence Group
08/01/2011
12:26
PM Creating
Interactions in Building Automation We must "Create Interactions" worthy of our visibility
and strive to better understand how to interact with the powerful presentations
of our information. - Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com
08/01/2011
12:26
PM 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.
08/01/2011
12:25
PM Global
Intelligent Building Automation Technologies Systems Services and Information
Technology Market Size and Forecasts (2010-2015)The market for global
intelligent building automation technologies is expected to increase from
$130.46 billion in 2009 to $167.41 billion by 2015
08/01/2011
12:07
PM New
Products for August A brief description of some new products for the industry.