Editorial Comments by Ken Sinclair         

The Power of the People

The theme of our June issue "The Power of the People" refers to the ability of people to create change as well as the fact that electrical power, which only a few years ago seemed to be the property of the utilities, is now perceived to be the power of the people.

The Power of the People is positioned to create radical change in our industry.  This is fueled by our need for sustainable buildings, plus the rapidly evolving smart grid with its need for clean energy, and the availability of innovative people from a down turned economy encouraged by the governments created by the people.

Our feature articles speak well to this radical change its management and presentation.

 Are New Real Estate Risks Creating The "Tipping Point"?  Now the risks of doing nothing different may be even greater than rewards of being progressive. Tom Shircliff and Rob Murchison, Co-Founders, IntelligentBuildings®

Don’t Shoot The Messenger!  Let’s spread the word that achieving and maintaining ultra-efficient building energy system operation is possible, but to do so requires change. Thomas Hartman, P.E. The Hartman Company

Future of Building Automation with IP Version 6 & cloud networking Alper Uzmezler, BAS Services & Graphics, LLC.

Building Information Modeling Continues to Grow in Green Building  Adding Ease to Displaying Building Energy Efficiencies  Sarah Erdman, Marketing Director, Quality Automation Graphics

240 And Counting….  The number of speakers at ConnectivityWeek has now surpassed the total number of attendees at the first BuilConn  Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO, Clasma Events Inc.

I am extremely pleased at the response and depth of our winning www.YoungEnergy.org authors who have provided a show of their power to change our industry. Be sure to read their interviews. 
Smart Grid is an Enabler James Bickford, Distributed PV Generation & The Smart Grid Lon Huber,
Pillars of a Third Industrial Revolution Drew Johnston, Development of a Smart Grid  Brad White.

Lot of great information exchanges in our June Interviews
The Green Building Power Forum  Jeff Shepard,  OPC in the New Generation of Building Automation  Sean Leonard
Open Automated Demand Response  Ed Koch,  OpenADR Collaborative  Olcay Ungun
Annual Energy Efficiency Indicator Survey  Clay Nesler,  Using the Internet for Energy Management  Dan Kubula,
Interoperable Blues Band @ConnectivityWeek  Leighton Wolffe

June Columns
“Good Fences Make Good Neighbors”  Andy McMillan, The State of the Building Automation Market Paul Ehrlich & Ira Goldschmidt, Conversation between Intelligent Buildings and Smart Energy Toby Considine, Selecting Sensors for BAS Steven R. Calabrese, OPC EXPO comes to Connectivity Week! Manny Mandrusiak, The Reinvention Convention Ken Sinclair

June Previews ConnectivityWeek IT and Energy to Create Green Buildings & Buildy Awards
June Reviews  Energy Efficiency in Buildings Recommissioning,Google PowerMeter Partners

The news just keeps flowing thru our web site and RSS feeds daily, and of course the only way to truly find what you are looking for in the vast quantity of information on our site is with our site search engine http://www.automatedbuildings.com/search/sitesearch.htm

As always lots of new products, plus be sure to check our event calendar to see the number of events we have in our future.

Several of our advertisers have provided links to their very informative newsletters and blogs please check them out.

The Reinvention Convention - http://www.connectivityweek.com

Although I did not invent Building Automation, I was there when it happened. I saw hardwired logic machines give way to mini computers with dumb panels. In 1975 I was involved with a evolutionary, possibly the first distributed computerized Direct Digital Control system for a large University Campus. So I am extremely pleased to go to the silicon valley as a reinvented digital dinosaur and be part of the Reinvention Convention for Building Automation and beyond. For a sneak preview of my track  Reinventing Building Automation plus more ConnectivityWeek previews click here.

Did you catch this article in Wired Magazine? 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now or What is the Smart Grid, Anyway? in Fast Company?   It is amazing to see the content that usually appears on AutomatedBuildings.com being part of an international social IP magazine. The Keynote speakers for the reinvention event are from Google and "Bob" the inventor of Ethernet so you can see our reinvention resides with Internet Protocol.

Extremely pleased to see last month's theme of B the U in YoungEnergy.org come alive at center stage in Santa Clara with the first YoungEnergy panel discussion plus the first YoungEnergy grant recipient for ConnectivityWeek

 I usually single out feature articles and interviews but our May issue has so much excellent content I recommend that you return to the home page www.automatedbuildings.com and review all articles, interviews, columns, previews, and reviews. Just reading the titles and pull quotes is an education, and all speaks to change and reinvention.

The news just keeps flowing thru our web site and RSS feeds daily, and of course the only way to truly find what you are looking for in the vast quantity of information on our site is with our site search engine http://www.automatedbuildings.com/search/sitesearch.htm

As always lots of new products, plus be sure to check our event calendar to see the number of events we have in our future.

Thanks to our News Page Sponsor - Delta Controls a global leader in BACnet-based, web-accessible products for hvac, lighting and card access controls. Our full range of programmable and application-specific controllers are valued for their flexibility, reliability and ease-of-use.

We welcome our newest advertiser - Loytec, an expert on intelligent network infrastructure products for building automation, focuses on open and standardized communication protocols. Products include routers, graphical user interfaces, gateways and embedded Automation Servers.   

The news just keeps flowing thru our web site and RSS feeds daily, and of course the only way to truly find what you are looking for in the vast quantity of information on our site is with our site search engine http://www.automatedbuildings.com/search/sitesearch.htm

As always lots of new products, plus be sure to check our event calendar to see the number of events we have in our future.