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June 2006 Reviews
Building Automation -
Realcomm Asia Tour
I
just recently returned from two weeks in Asia on the Realcomm NextGen Best
Practices Tour, visiting some of the most technologically advanced buildings in
the world! It was an amazing trip in terms of witnessing how technology is
incorporated into the design, development, and operation of their buildings.
Here is a brief overview of the trip and a snapshot of what we saw...
ZigBee versus Z-Wave
This story provides insight into these two competing wireless standards.
Niagara Summit
The
2006 Niagara Summit Brings Out the Best in “Connecting Minds and Machines”
BuilConn Review
All Business at BuilConn
2006 Palm Springs
Throughout all aspects of the event—from the well-attended business tracks,
business-focused keynotes and discussions at the expo to the corridors and
numerous networking events—attendees, exhibitors, sponsors and speakers were
discussing one key thing: how to deliver convergence-connected buildings.
Connected Real Estate Roundtable, Palm Springs BuilConn
I was extremely pleased to be invited to the first
ever Connected Real Estate Roundtable in Palm Springs.
The following are observations and summations I made while there and is intended
to provide the flavour of the information served around the roundtable.
Newsmaker and Shaker of the
year award
We carried the
news of this award in our May issue of AutomatedBuildings.com and were pleased to
physically present Anto with his award in person at the BuilConn Gala in Palm
Springs.
BuilConn 2006 Buildy
Visionary award winner
Jane and I were pleased to
turn over our year of glory as last year's BuilConn “Buildy Visionaries” to this
year's winner Jack McGowan. Our prolific contributing editor's vision has
transformed him into Mr Gridwise.
2006 Buildy Awards
Convergence and Integration Experts
Honored with 2006 Buildy Awards at Premier Event for Networked Buildings
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The IBB Palm Springs
"the best one yet"
The Connectivity Daily
Every morning during last month’s
Connectivity Week attendees were greeted with a copy of the Connectivity Daily -
the official event daily paper. The three published issues (with a total
circulation of 1300 issues) included an array of information including article
excerpts from Harbor Research, Energy Priorities, Cisco and the BuilConn
Update.
May 2006 BuilConn Preview
The Nights
before the Roundtable
If you are not
aware, Cisco Systems is sponsoring a roundtable discussion on IT
Convergence & Building Automation, Tuesday 16-May-2006 in Palm Spring at this
year's BuilConn.
Our Votes for this year's
BuilConn Buildy's awards
Honor those in the industry whose Vision, Initiative, Product or
Project supports Building-IT convergence by voting them in for a Buildy
award.
oBIX will be present at the Web
services track at BuilConn
From an email from Aaron Hansen
At BuilConn oBIX will be present in both sessions of the Web services track on
Tues. We will also have a face-to-face meeting that evening, 4 - 5:30pm. There
is a strong chance oBIX will be in an official public review state at that time.
The Interoperable Blues Band (IBB) will
have a number of new faces
BuilConn 2006 is bringing together
IT based companies into the world of building automation and true to the spirit
of interoperability, players from these diverse industries are also
participating in the IBB.
ARCHIVE OF BUILDING AUTOMATION REVIEWS
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