Editorial
Comments by Ken Sinclair
Editor/Owner, AutomatedBuildings.com
Information, Integration, and Transformation
All the
articles, interviews and columns in this month's issue reverberate our
theme “Information, Integration, and Transformation” which was
taken from Rick Huijbregts, Vice President, Vertical Industries Cisco
Canada article
The Real Value of Building Information,
Integration and Transformation,
that speaks of how
Collaboration and communication has been re-defined, and video and
mobility are some of the key instigators.
Be sure to watch the youtube on this.
Also I am very pleased with this comment.
"Please
keep reading our contributions to AutomatedBuildings.com as we explore
the transformation of real estate over IP-based building networks."
Marc Petock Vice President Global Marketing & Communications of Tridium,
Inc. an early adopter and implementer of these concepts reminds us
"The biggest
challenge currently facing existing buildings in reducing energy usage
is the lack of manageability for efficiency and critical information
about operating systems" in his article
The Niagara Framework® and Energy.
Roy Kok of Kepware Technologies tells us how
a OPC Server is able to communicate with a variety of automation
protocols to help create Arizona State University’s energy monitoring
system in his article
ASU Gets Greener through Visibility
David Wolins, CEO,
Scientific Conservation, Inc. (SCI) chimes in with
"All automation systems deployed in the future
will require data streams containing all available performance
characteristics of a piece of equipment be made available to the
customer in a highly useable format." in his article
The Emergence of Proactive Building
Management Automation
Our other
articles speak well to our theme as do
our columns, interviews, and reviews.
October Interviews:
IT
and Facilities Managers Working Together
Jill Eckhaus,
CC-Link Communication Network
Charles
Lukasik
OPC
Foundation North American Certification Test Lab
Nathan Pocock & Manny
Mandrusiak
State of the Electronic Cable Industry
André Sabourin
Creating a Safe, Sustainable Community
Joy Clarke-Holmes
October Columns:
Understanding Specifications (Part 2 of 3)
Steven R. Calabrese,
OPC and PROFINET technologies combine
Manny Mandrusiak,
Smart Buildings Meet the Smart Grid
Paul Ehrlich & Ira Goldschmidt,
BACnet Triple Play
Andy McMillan
October Reviews:
Successful Buildings under Control™
&
Across my desk
We
have already been busy planning our
AHR Expo 2010 Educations
Sessions
Be sure to read our sneak
Preview.
Please welcome our
newest sponsor: BAS
Services & Graphics, LLC. proudly presents The basAhuMaker;
a faster and efficient way of AHU designing.
We welcome return advertiser - QA Graphics is a leader in the building control industry;
providing energy efficiency education display dashboards, 3D symbol libraries,
3D design, and graphic outsourcing.
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.
Tell our sponsors you saw
their ad on the AutomatedBuildings.com web site and
thank them for supporting your free access to evolving
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and view their valuable products and services. Please review
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Sponsors.
“with our feet on the ground and our
heads in the cloud”
Our last few issues have been pointed toward the cloud and all of its power
and how this will revolutionize our industry. It is very important that
while we understand our new found powers that we keep our feet on the ground
and connect this cloud to real applications and real people. Once you get it
and start bantering with your fellow "cloudys" you will find that when you
talk to normal folks (your clients) whose heads are not clouded you talk
funny.....real funny. Take the time to explain how the connections to the
concepts of SaaS, ACC, Smart Grid etc are affordable and real. Do not speak
in AAA's ( Annoying Arrogant Acronyms) share your decoder ring with your
audience and try to speak English the best you can. We are all ambassadors
from the cloud and our future depends on our ability to walk in with our
feet on the ground and talk about successes and working examples of cloud
connections.
In Gordon Holness', presidential address to ASHRAE members "Sustaining Our
Future By Rebuilding Our Past" which deals with Energy Efficiency in
Existing Buildings he states in his conclusion; "We need to remind ourselves
that today we are in a virtual world. We are in the era of iPhones and
Yahoo, of Google Earth and Wikipedia, of Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. If
we want to continue to be leaders in this industry, we must deliver the
goods today, Tomorrow is not good enough."
Gordon' s background in Building Information Modeling BIM and
Interoperability has provided him great insight into the power of the future
to solve the problems of the past. Change is everywhere and Tomorrow is not
good enough.
Our articles have today's solutions and Sarah Erdman
of Quality Automation Graphics in her article
Energy Dashboards Inform and Educate
shows us with pictures and powerful graphics how to stop talking funny while
showing your stuff and even flings a few AAA's at us but provides good
definition.
Lots of great articles in this issue:
Bringing BIG Building Automation to The Small Building Market
Trevor Palmer, Viconics;
Pneumatic Energy Savings Control
George Fincher, Energy Controls Co.;
Smart or Dumb Meters
Mark Hunter, ION Controls;
How Do We Measure The Performance Of A Building?
Jim Sinopoli, Smart Buildings LLC;
The Price
of Energy Toby Considine, Smart Grid,
Standards;
Brivo ACS Webservice™ Deployed in Project
Upgrade Bruce J. Doneff, Brivo Systems, LLC;
Hey, Don't
Take My Word For It… Robert
Beverly, Engineered Systems;
Brivo ACS Webservice™ Deployed in Project
Upgrade Bruce J. Doneff, Brivo Systems, LLC;
Building
Cloud Connections
Ken Sinclair, www.AutomatedBuildings.com
September Columns:
BACnet …
from the Outside In
Andy McMillan;
Collaborative Energy Toby Considine;
The Coming Evolution of BAS DesignPaul Ehrlich & Ira Goldschmidt;
Understanding Specifications
Steven R. Calabrese;
OPC Technology finds its’ place on the map
Manny Mandrusiak
September Interviews:
The Multi Protocol Router
David Oshoway;
Smart Building Product Ratings
Jim Sinopoli;
Energy
Storage
Mark M. MacCracken
September Reviews:
Wailing of Wireless Woes
“Digital Signage is a Vortex”
Please welcome our
newest sponsors:
ION Controls offering
Freedom through Openness, with free issue CreatION and ION Core
graphical authoring and programming applications for the BACnet,
Modbus, OPC capable ION SuperVZR Web Server and low-cost ION Micron
controllers.
Energy Controls Co.
The PESC-F100 Pneumatic Energy Savings Control
is an alternative
to costly DDC retrofits of pneumatic systems which can cost
$2000/Zone.
PESC-F100 costs 1/4 of the price. To become a dealer
www.energy-controls.com
We welcome return
advertiser - Quality Automation
Graphics is a leader in the building control industry;
providing energy efficiency education display dashboards, 3D symbol
libraries, 3D design, and graphic outsourcing.
Tell our sponsors you saw their ad on the AutomatedBuildings.com web site
and thank them for supporting your free access to evolving Automated
Building Industry information. Click on their ads and view their valuable
products and services. Please review all
Our Sponsors.
