Articles
- December
2010
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authors provide insight
into our rapidly evolving industry.
Please take the time to read their valuable articles.
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? Nino Kurtalj, President,
Elma Kurtalj Ltd
Dashboards for Buildings
Dashboards are meant to convey essential information quickly and
clearly on one screen. Jim Sinopoli,
PE, RCCD, LEED AP & Managing Principal Smart
Buildings LLC
Interoperability. So, what’s in it for me? In terms of actual benefits, interoperability
enables more devices to communicate, improved operational efficiency,
and of course, a more level playing field for entrepreneurial minds to
innovate and create a much larger potential market. Anto Budiardjo, Clasma Events
DeKalb
Technical College Starts Building Automation Program This new program offers a diploma as well as
an Associate in Applied Science degree.
The program can also be done online.
Stephanie Brown, Student, DeKalb Technical College
Revolutionizing Building Physical Security Having
a physical security system that easily integrates with your tenants’
identity management system, means that you can now transfer some of the
liability to your tenant for creating, modifying, removing and
archiving identities from the physical access system. Guy Huntington
Cloud-to-Cloud Software Integration Utilizing Physical Security Data to Improve Corporate Risk and Compliance Management Steve
Van Till, President and CEO, Brivo Systems & Brian McIlravey, CPP, Co-CEO PPM 2000
Benefits of lighting control integrating DALI and BACnet. From theory to real application. Josep Ceron, Business Development Manager, Intesis Software
Columns - December
2010
Systems &
Sequences Airside systems Part 1 of 2 Steven R.
Calabrese, Control
Engineering Corp.
The 6 –Steps Guide to Success with OPC UA Six Defined Steps to maximize your investment in OPC UA
Manny
Mandrusiak, Vice President
of OPC Marketing, OPC Foundation
Making Commercial
Controls
Work Nearly
everything about a controls system—the
points, architecture, integration, etc.—comes from the requirements
defined in
the sequence of operation. Paul Ehrlich, Ira
Goldschmidt
& Angela Lewis Building
Intelligence Group
Articles - November
2010
Green Buildings and EZ Electricity Enterprising minds are creating better
opportunities for buildings to interact with the Smart Grid. John J.
"Jack" Mc Gowan, CEM Energy
Control Inc.
Wireless
Meters The
Real Hotspot Jim Sinopoli,
PE, RCCD, LEED AP & Managing Principal Smart
Buildings LLC
Connecting
Building Automation to Everything In an ideal world, we will be able to be vendor
and
protocol
independent. Everything will talk to everything. Nino Kurtalj, President,
Elma Kurtalj Ltd
The
Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PIC) & BACnet
Interoperability Building Blocks (BIBB) Nirosha Munasinghe,
Product
Development Manager, Open General
BACnet in
Public Administration Buildings Lowering Energy
Consumption While Maximizing Comfort Salvatore Cataldi, ESAC
GridWeek
A Summary of
Discussions Shaping the BAS Industry Anto Budiardjo, Clasma Events
Collaboration
Fuels Smart Grid Progress Major
Industry Players Get Behind ADR Alliance Anto Budiardjo, Clasma Events
Social
Networking
Can
help you find a job in the Building Automation Industry Teny E.
Varghese, Building Automation Jobs
Glenborough
Takes Energy Efficiency Strategy to the Next Level with the Niagara
Framework It’s not always about the
‘money’ one commits into an operation; it’s
how you bring other important stakeholders, such as your tenants and
vendors, into energy conservation. Carlos Santamaria, LEED AP
Glenborough’s Director of Engineering
Columns - November
2010
Control
System
Upgrades
Determine
your best path to a total
system overhaul
Steven R.
Calabrese, Control
Engineering Corp.
OPC
UA Adoption Update No one is certain where technology trends in BAS
will take us in 2011
but one thing is certain: OPC UA will be the protocol of choice in
taking data
from the field and making it useful information in the cloud.
Manny
Mandrusiak, Vice President
of OPC Marketing, OPC Foundation
Energy Effectiveness
… Getting
Beyond Energy Efficiency
Andy McMillan, President and GM Philips Teletrol
Internal
Sharing of Energy Information to Support Smart Grids Every building, and
every group of buildings,
must become a microgrid. A microgrid is responsible for managing its
energy
use, generation, storage, and market operations.
Toby Considine,
T9
Networked Building Automation System
(BAS) It is
amazing how little we know about what really goes on in most buildings.
Paul Ehrlich, Ira Goldschmidt
& Angela Lewis Building
Intelligence Group
Past
Favorites
November:
Teny E.
Varghese, Building Automation Jobs Social
Networking
Nino Kurtalj, President,
Elma Kurtalj Ltd Connecting
Building Automation to Everything
October:
David Lamarche,
Director of Communications, CAN2GO™ The Embedded BACnet IP Server
Jim Sinopoli, PE, LEED
AP, RCDD Managing
Principal, Smart Buildings LLC Too Many Choices For Wireless Building
Systems?
September:
Nino Kurtalj, President,
Elma Kurtalj Ltd
From
the Silo to Open Collaborative Facility Internetworks
Sarah Erdman, Marketing Director,
QA
Graphics Seeing
is Believing
Ken Sinclair Editor/Owner, www.AutomatedBuildings.com Does Owning the
Meters Make You Smarter?
August:
Jim Sinopoli, PE, LEED
AP, RCDD Managing
Principal, Smart Buildings LLC A Window
into Shading and Electrically Switchable Glass
Peter Sharer, Founder,
Agilewaves, Inc
Monitoring-based
Commissioning for Proactive Energy Management
July:
Sarah Erdman, Marketing
Director, QA
Graphics Energy
Dashboards and Energy EDUCATION Dashboard
Michael Colicchio, Canadian
Regional
Development,
Viconics Electronics Inc. Wireless
Communicating Controls
June:
Harry Sim, CEO, Cypress Envirosystems
Kaiser
Permanente Qualifies Old Building for Energy Incentives
Ken Sinclair
AutomatedBuildings.com
Takeaways from ConnectivityWeek 2010
Nirosha Munasinghe, Open
General
The Future of Cloud Connectivity for BAS
May:
Ken Sinclair Editor/Owner, www.AutomatedBuildings.com
Preview
of May 24-27 ConnectivityWeek 2010 Santa Clara
Michael R. Lavelle P.E., Lavelle Energy
LLC & Kimon
Onuma, FAIA,
ONUMA, Inc.
Virtual
Building Energy Management
Nirosha Munasinghe, Open General
What
is a Web Enabled Building Management System? & Data
Integration Levels
April:
Dave Krinkel, Founder EnergyAI What
Secrets Lurk In the 98% of Energy Data that’s Never Looked At?
March:
Ken Sinclair Editor/Owner,
www.AutomatedBuildings.com
The Next Big
Things
February:
Andy Stadheim CEO, Barix Technology U.S.
Building
Automation Considerations
Ken Sinclair
Editor/Owner, www.AutomatedBuildings.com
Twenty
Ten to be a
BAD-ASS Year
January:
Jim Sinopoli,
PE, LEED AP, RCDD Managing
Principal, Smart Buildings LLC Predictions
for Smart Buildings in 2010
Rawlson O’Neil
King, Communications Director,
CABA
Research
Viewpoints
Robert Eckery,
Marcom Manager, EnOcean, Inc. Energy
Harvesting, Wireless and Next Generation Building Energy Management
December:
Jim Sinopoli,
PE, LEED AP, RCDD Managing
Principal, Smart Buildings LLC How
Buildings Will Communicate With The Smart Grid
Harry Sim,
CEO, Cypress
Envirosystems
Retrofitting
Existing Commercial Buildings for the Smart Grid
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