April 2006

A spring break on an Island with a technical session, golf, biking, hiking.......

You and yours need a spring break and here is the ticket! An interesting technical program called Moving Building Automation Systems out of the BOILER ROOM and into the BOARD ROOM that you can attend while supporting ASHRAE and still have fun playing in and exploring beautiful Victoria BC on Vancouver Island Canada.

Building Automation 2006 Conference

The event was a rousing success, bringing together building owners, consulting engineers, suppliers and experts for a two day event focused on planning and change.  Paul Ehrlich

ODVA February 2006 Phoenix Meeting Report - Industrial Protocol Activity

Bill Lydon attended the recent annual ODVA meeting in Phoenix Arizona.  ODVA is a not for profit industry trade group with over 270 members that develops and promotes industrial communication protocols, DeviceNet was the fist network introduced.

Hong Kong Harbour 'Symphony Of Lights'

Control of 18 buildings on the Hong Kong water front in a integration of architectural lighting, laser effects, pyrotechnics and accompanied by a sound simulcast provides a very graphic demonstration of what city wide control integration might look like. Be sure to view the video.

Tridium Sponsors CGNA’s Industry Forum – “National Account Solutions”

The focus of the forum was on selling and supporting controls for national accounts in the commercial building marketplace.

March 2006

BACnet Service Tool

When I was in Chicago in the BACnet International booth Jon Williamson showed me how he could wirelessly discover all the BACnet points in the booth on his hand held computer. A very impressive demonstration.  The thought that crossed my mind at this point was that the true power of the BACnet international community is the sum of its parts, and product development is now a community affair.

IP Video Technology & Narrowcasting

I received a pdf with a "Digital Signage Retail Case Study: Siam Centre & Siam Discovery, Bangkok" in an email from 1-2-1View who's Home Headquarters are in Hong Kong with offices throughout Asia.  I would like to share some of the information from their web site and provide connection to this pdf.

Annual Conference for KMC Development Co. Ltd

18 February 2006 • Tianjin, China an extremely successful conference.

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