Theme "Now Available for Automated Buildings"
Our April 2000 update includes lots of new web
site features.
Contractor Corner
is a resource page developed just for the people that install and maintain
Automated Buildings. This new space will allow a virtual community of Control
Contractors to interact and get quick access to the rapidly changing Automation
Industry. Please advise your contractors of this resource and suggest how we can
make it better. ContractorCorner@automatedbuildings.com
We have entered into a co-branding agreement with
AEE Seminar and Books. Check out this new service.
We welcome our four new sponsors Echelon,
Coactive, Strategic
Resource Solutions and ControlShop.
Please check out their sites as our sponsors allow us to bring this online
magazine and resource to you free.
We are assembling an index with dynamic linking
to all industry e-com sites to be part of our May issue. Please advise us of any
electronic commerce sites you are aware of. e-com@automatedbuildings.com
Our March site traffic has increased
approximately 25% over February Thanks for your help getting us known in
the industry.
April's update has new links, press releases, new products and
news briefs. See the two new categories in the
Link Library -
Flow & Pressure Measurement, and Health
& Safety - IAQ.
We were pleased to be part
of the Building Automation Seminar that attracted more than 400 attendees
throughout the course of the successful Dallas
AHR Expo.
Industry support of our March theme, plus the
information and contacts gathered at the AHR show in Dallas has produced an
extremely informative issue. Check out the 15 Articles,
New Products, and News/Press
Releases to review what experts from our industry are saying is now
available for Automated Buildings.
There is
an excitement in the air which is "growing" our industry at a record rate. The
number of automation companies are multiplying by dividing traditional companies
and introducing many new players with new skill sets. Traditional companies are
constantly reinventing themselves to stay competitive with the upstarts. Teams
of new and old players are being assembled to provide never achieved before
levels of automation integration. The new rules for our industry are the same as
they are for the Internet, "There are no rules." If we perceive we
need rules and structure for a project our team will build them to suit. We will
reshape our teams to provide the necessary winning solutions. It is the best of
times for those promoting change. It is the worst of time for those trying to
maintain traditional markets. Communication in a resource and therefore it is more important than
ever to
keep emails, articles, press releases, and new product information
rolling into AutomatedBuildings.com so that we can do our job of keeping you
informed. Ken Sinclair, Editor
[an error occurred while processing this directive]Training Schedule under the
Resources Tab
has evolved to a list of System Training Links that
will help you and your new players get up to speed quickly. We continuously update as
new sources are discovered. If you know of on line training which should be
added please send an email
stating the URL.
A review of yet another acronym
OSGi
has been
added to our Link Library resource Acronyms
& Definitions. This section has been added to help you keep current
with all the annoying acronyms that we must all learn to understand our
future. Please send us more as you find them.
Have you tried our new feature
the Site
Search Engine? Give it a try, it's fun
and you will find lots of neat articles and links on our site. Looking for
articles by Hartman? Type in Hartman and hit start. Click
on articles or reviews you want to view. If you wish to search the actual
matched document for a keyword use the Find Function on your
browser, usually "Ctrl F". Use our search
feature to see if
you are linked to us, and where.
For March there are new links in our Link Library
and Software Library.
Check them out.
A
special thanks to our new and ongoing advertisers. These companies make our
web resource and Ezine possible so be sure to click on their
banner/showcase ads under Products and become familiar with their services.
As with any
good trade magazine the advertising is much of the total content and
message conveyed. Please feedback your thoughts as well as
the kind of information you would like to see in this internet resource. Help
us get known to the world by telling a friend or colleague.
As you can see we have been busy responding to
your requests and look forward to continuing to shape AutomatedBuilding.com into your
Internet Automation Resource.
Our next issue of 
is May 1st, 2000, and it will include a review of our
new "Control Contractors Corner" a virtual community previewing on our
site in April. Our theme for the issue will be "Our Web
Communities" however, as usual we are always looking for any good industry
articles. Please get your articles in early. Send
to news@automatedbuildings.com.
In our January/February issue we had lots of great articles -
that were very close in total reads. The top reads were:
HVAC
Control: An Essay on Change - Tom Hartman
Implementing
Open Control Systems: The Market Has Spoken - Michael R.
Tennefoss
Browsers,
BACnet, and Building Control - Steve Tom
BacNet and
LonTalk: Why We Need Them Both - Mark
Hess
The
Medium for the Millennium is Fiber for Building Automation - Brian
D. Morrison
But Tom's Hartman's article was the
actual winner by only by a few reads.
Previous Favorites is where we add the article
most viewed in the previous issue.
- January/February's issue favorite was Tom Hartman's
HVAC
Control: An Essay on Change
- November/December's issue favorite was
Are Automated Buildings
Converging or Colliding with the Internet?
- September/October's issue favorite was Notifact
Systems'
Combining Wireless
Technology and Internet -- Seamlessly
- July/August's issue was Tom Hartman's great article
prepared for our official launch.
[an error occurred while processing this directive]We are also always upgrading our Events
Calendar so take a look.
This is not just a spectator sport, please send
your articles, new releases and new product information to us. Click here to see article
format. If you are
pushed for time send us an email and we will format your message to the industry and your
clients. Take a look at our When Automation
Becomes Art an article which
originally was an email.
Headlines
Johnson
Controls and Simplex Announce Alliance
45,000
HVACR Professionals Set Attendance Record at AHR Expo
LONMARK®
Devices Come Together to
Demonstrate Interoperable Building Controls at 2000 AHR EXPO
AutomatedBuildings.com unique users were up
60% for Jan/Feb; average readers session length was 15 minutes and a return of 2.2
times; overall article reads were the highest ever.
News Releases (Updated
April 1/00)
New
Products: (Updated
April 1/00)
News Releases
(March/00)
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Products: (March/00)
-
New
Products: Reko-Electronic
- sun protection
control; LON
Sensorunit -
Type SE-B II; CeTeLaB - Multi-function
intrusion detectors reduce installation costs; EIRIS™,
ELPAS Infra-Red Identification and Search Systems;
Onset Computer Corporation Announces
Affordable Temperature Loggers Accept J, K or T Thermocouples; XCI
Corporation (XCI) introduced the XC-LAN232 10BaseT TCP/IP Add-On Network
Adapter
Articles
for March
- WebCTRL
- The greater the ability
to communicate the highest quality information from operator to system,
system to operator, and system to system, with the greatest of ease and
simplicity, the more valuable the Web becomes. Gerry
Hull, Automated Logic Corporation
-
The
Benefits of Ethernet to Building Automation - Ethernet is the information
connectivity utility, and this makes Ethernet running TCP/IP the protocol to bet
on for open systems going forward. John Petze, Andover Controls Corporation
-
Echelon -
Bringing the Internet To Life - Summation of Echelon's Press Conference presentation
at AHR 2000. Bea
Yormark, Echelon
-
Why
Standards Matter - And Why It's Taking Our Industry So Long to
Implement Them Terry Hoffmann, Johnson Controls Inc
-
Isole
Controls Plug Load Costs for 3Com - "From
our experience, it seems clear that every company should consider
occupancy-based control of their plug loads for increased energy
savings," Rita A. Renner, The Watt Stopper Inc.
-
eDUCATION for Facility Performance
- Smart systems plus smart people result in smarter
facility operations. Chuck
Miles, Johnson Controls Institute
-
Tools for
Commissioning and Building Tune-Ups -
System-wide performance
monitoring offers a more powerful, scientific approach to building system
analysis. Tracy M. Phillips, Architectural
Energy Corporation
-
Sun
Protection via LonMark Technology ......in the long run, resources are saved as the
well-being and productivity of the employees are increased. Petra Sauer,
REKO Electronic
-
GadgetStackTM
Multi-platform LonTalkTM
Protocol Stack
- Because the stack is not limited by the size of Neuron chip’s
memory map, developers are able to tailor node memory requirements to their
needs. Bart Boggess, Adept Systems
Inc
- Setra
Pressure Transmitters Help CALMAC'S Ice Bank®
System Cool Down Customers Efficiently, Cheaply
- When it comes to meeting a building's air
conditioning requirements, certain times are better than others. In fact, you
might say that the difference is like day and night - literally. Lawrence Griffin,
Setra Systems Inc
- Web
Based Energy and Facility Control - Web-based
energy and facility management solutions can help you increase efficiency and
improve your bottom line, while making your buildings better equipped for the
future. Martha Grindle, Strategic Resource Solutions
-
Putting
Together the Ideal Networked Facilities Monitoring and Control System
-
...the future of facility management is clear: it’s putting buildings
online. Gerry
Lands, EnFlex Corporation
-
Bank
of America, Seattle, Wa - Today, the Bank of America Tower is
being upgraded to Alerton's native BACnet compliant product line, BACtalk. Melinda
Bartee, Alerton Technologies, Inc.
-
Take
Off The Handcuffs - With
BACnet based systems a customer has the capability to expand or add to the
system with products from different control
companies. David G. Zavetsky, Building Control
Technologies
- San
Jose International Airport - By
choosing an open interoperable LonMark control networking solution, future
growth for the facility will be simple, flexible and reliable, allowing the
airport to continue to serve its constantly growing marketplace. LonMark
Interoperability Association
March's
Product, Software
and Web Site Reviews
- Iowa
Energy Center's Direct Digital Controls Project -
The
purpose of this web site is to provide the public with unbiased information on
Direct Digital Controls (DDC) and an easy searchable guide to vendors who sell
DDC systems.
Open Services
Gateway Initiative (OSGi) is an industry group working to define and promote
an open standard for
connecting the coming generation of smart consumer and
small business appliances with commercial Internet services. The Open Services Gateway
specification will provide a common foundation for Internet Service Providers,
network operators and equipment manufacturers to deliver a wide range of
e-services via gateway servers running in the home or remote office.
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