"Preparing for The Net Effect"

Prepared for the Net Effect? Here is an example Europe's leading research and consultancy company specialising in intelligent systems in buildings advises us that the 
North American Controls Market could double. The global interest and capabilities are amazing and if we are not in touch with our local markets, global interests are. 

"State-of-the-Art Capabilities in Building Automation" AHR Expo Atlanta Jan 2001 - Show Sponsored Sessions.   Explore the latest advances in "Intelligent Building Systems." See how far the automation of commercial and residential buildings has come - from today's trends to the outer limits of building automation and integration in these FREE 1/2 hour presentations. Presented By: Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com, David J. Branson, Compliance Services Group, Inc.

We welcome back Echelon as one of our sponsors and are pleased to help them invite our readers to their LONWORLD2000™ the world's largest annual forum focused on the technology and business of networking everyday devices like washing machines, stereos, light switches, energy meters, thermostats, HVAC systems, and more to the Internet. ORLANDO, FLORIDA, OCTOBER 18-19, 2000.  We also welcome the LonMark Interoperability Association as a new sponsor this month.

Note that we have had the BACnet Manufacturers Association (BMA) as a sponsor for several months and we are pleased to have our automation portal provide an independent arena for information exchange by designers, manufacturers and users of these and other protocols.

Setra Systems, Inc. a leading designer and manufacturer of weight, pressure, and acceleration sensing devices joins us as a new sponsor. The b2b ( business to business) significance of our site increases daily as automation sensor manufacturers find new markets with automation vendors and contractors.

Our September and October theme "Preparing for the Net Effect" is aimed at helping us all prepare and better understand how "The Net" will provide significant changes in both our work and home life.

Two new features have been added to our site in this issue - A Summary of New Industry Links to allow you to quickly view who is new and happening plus, A review of On Line Training and Information Resources. The on line training resource page is just the start of what I feel will grow to a useful part of our site providing access to training for the industry.

For October the new section Scheduled Industry Courses has been added.

I have been requested to be a Contributing Editor for the magazine Engineered Systems and my first article Building Automation: The Net Effect appeared in their August issue.  Engineered Systems has a new web presence  http://www.esmagazine.com/ that puts ES feature articles on line, one of their responses to "Preparing for the Net Effect." Their August issue is focused on Building Automation, Motors and Drives, Integrating Systems and Control and Sensors so may be of interest to you.

We have a busy fall planned and have been also requested to assist with a similar session to the one we did at the AHR Expo 2000 in Dallas for the AHR Expo 2001 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, January 29-31. In addition we have been asked to be part of Andover's Worldwide Representative Meeting 2000 at Marco Island, Florida. We welcome the opportunities to interact with the industry at events such as these. It helps us keep current and allows feedback on how to make AutomatedBuildings.com more useful. We also have travel to Australia and Hong Kong planned before December.

Being requested to be a Contributing Editor reminded me that we have several excellent contributing editors for 'The Automator" that I have failed to acknowledge. We have corrected this oversight by preparing them their very own web pages with linkage to all their articles, company web sites and email addresses to help you get to know them better.

Contributing Editors

Thomas Hartman  Tom has been a long time friend and contributing editor who has provided continued encouragement and wisdom for our site. 

Welcome John J "Jack" Mc Gowan, an industry icon in automation articles. Jack and I met more years ago than either of us will admit while doing AEE presentations in Atlanta.  We are pleased to welcome Jack aboard. Please read Jack's article for this issue DDC Networks:...is the question really: BACnet™ or LonWorks™? 

Leonard A. Damiano   Len an Indoor Air Quality expert, has been contributing great articles about IAQ  and ASHRAE 62-1999. This information has been well received by our readers as good building automation and indoor air quality becomes synonymous. Len has two great article in this month's issue The Advantage of Precise Ventilation Control for Schools & Providing "Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality

As "The Automator's" editor  I get to contribute many articles and reviews so I get to be my own contributing editor. I will also be re-publishing the articles written monthly for Engineered Systems as their contributing editor. 

Be sure to check out this month's articles, new products and September's news releases. Last month a new section was added under our About button called Reader Profile which outlines who reads AutomatedBuildings.com. 

If you have been away the last few months by now you have probably noticed the changes in our web site look. These include new top menu artwork with "mouse overs" to improve understanding of the function of each button, plus a more interactive home page to quickly guide you to the sections of our portal that interest you the most. The rework was necessary to keep with the professional articles, and material sent to us by our contributors. The evolution to "Your Global Automation Portal" surprised us as it seems that several of our readers reached this conclusion before we did.  We have international articles and links so take a global look at our industry and what is happening in other parts of the world, as it may affect you more than you think.  

Please review our web resource Industry eCommerce Directory for the Automated Buildings Industry and I think you too will be amazed at the rapid growth and acceptance of the web as an eCommerce tool.  Navigation Tip  Some sites that we link to have chosen to do a redirect when you click on the back button.  This means you cannot get out of this site with your back button unless you double click quickly.  We find this most annoying as it defeats standard internet navigation.

The ability to create virtual space for special interest groups in our industry is one of the luxuries of the a web based magazine. Please feel free to email us at sinclair@AutomatedBuildings.com any ideas you have to make your global automation portal more useful.

Our November 2000 issue theme will be "Creating and Maintaining your Virtual Presence".  Please share your thoughts with our readership on this subject, but remember that AutomatedBuildings.com's purpose is to connect our readers with timely and new information on any automation subject, so share any of your articles, news, new products with us. 

Previous Favorites is where we add the article most viewed in the previous issues.
- July/August's issue favorite was Tom Hartman, The Hartman Company
The "COMFORT INDUSTRY" a 21st Century Opportunity
- May/June's issue favorite was Earl Gray, Control Contractors, Inc
Achieving Control System Independence - Controls Computers and Standards  
- March/April's issue favorite was John Petze, Andover Controls Corporation
The Benefits of Ethernet to Building Automation 
- 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.
Network Control: A New Paradigm For HVAC

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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.  

Headlines

• Latent Demand Could Double the Size of the World’s Largest Controls Market - Proplan Study

• "State-of-the-Art Capabilities in Building Automation"  AHR Expo Atlanta, Jan 2001 - Show Sponsored Sessions

• TAC acquires CSI, forms new company.  Europe's fastest growing integrated building automation company

• Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com a contributing editor for Engineered Systems.

News Releases (Oct 2000)

• News Briefs: Invensys-Pritchett brings technology for an intelligent world to New York State / Conference/Exhibition: Sigma Forum 2000 / ELPAS ~ Local Positioning Systems Technical Seminar / EnergyIdeas.org and EIC /  High Performance Commercial Buildings: A Technology Roadmap Press Conference / CABA's Annual General Meeting / Your Information Source for Home & Building Automation
• TC205 Approves BACnet as ISO Committee Draft  / TC205 Discusses Links to Konnex and IEIEJ/p
• Coactive Networks and Silicon Energy Partner to Deliver an End-to-End Solution for Internet-Based Energy Monitoring and Analysis / Emergency Lighting Service Built on Coactive Connector® Gateway
• Milwaukee Brewers, Johnson Controls Join to Operate Miller Park / Johnson Controls, Simplex Integrated Solution Now Underwriters Laboratories Listed for Smoke Control

• Industry Leaders Back Echelon's LonWorld2000^TM Conference and Exhibition

• Latent Demand Could Double the Size of the World’s Largest Controls Market - Proplan Study

• Tridium's Niagara Framework Release 2.1 Extends the Benefits of Internet-based Control to New Markets

• Motorola News: PSA Security Networks Recommends Motorola FlexPass RFID Security Products for New Installations / Motorola Introduces FlexPass OEM RFID Security Products
• Trane News: Price increases of two to three percent / New product information for the Tracer ZN.520 unit controller /  Introducing Trane water-source comfort systems 

• Notifact WMS Transceivers to be Equipped with “Plug and Play” Capabilities for Easy Connection to Lennox Rooftop Units

• NEMA Welcomes Senate Passage of PNTR for China
• New Electrical Contractor Community Strengthens Simplex Web Site

New Products (Oct 2000)

• New Products:  Intrinsically Safe Temperature Logger / Finger Print Identification Unit MONBAN / Contactless Smart Card / Graphical Programming Add-In

News Releases (Sept 2000)

• News Briefs:  Building Environmental Systems Technology Overview / ABB Acquires Energy Interactive, Inc / Sigma Forum 2000 Conference/Exhibition / CABA Connections 2000 / United Illuminating Company uses Energy Interactive's Energy Profiler Online^(TM) / Invensys Swings into Action at Baan / Siemens' New Specialized Web Site / Facilities America 2000 / Just Published by The Fairmont Press    
• Johnson Controls News: Selected by Industry Week Magazine as one of the worlds's 100 best managed companies / Energy System Management Program prepares customers for deregulation / Miami Four Seasons Hotel & Tower to integrated Building Automation Systems / 
• Coactive News:  Coactive Networks and Diverse Networks Team to Deliver End-to-End Infrastructure for Enabling the Digital Home  / Eight Leading Controls Companies Join Partner Program / Richard Bilas and John Seely Brown named to Advisory Board
• Andover Controls names Richard V. Focke, Director of Marketing
• Parks Associates News:  Information Appliances Will Out-ship PCs in 2001 / The Light Commercial Marketplace
• Ebtron News:  Johnson Controls' New Technology Center uses EBTRON to help show-off MetaSys / IAQ Seminars
• AHR Expo News: New Endorsements from 14 industry associations / Atlanta welcomes 2001 AHR Expo
• NETsilicon and Adept Systems Form Partnership to Produce "SuperNode" for LonTalk® Networks
• Z-World News:  Rabbit 2000 Core Module Microprocessor Core Saves Cost and Design Time / Low-Cost, Intelligent Terminal With Ethernet / Dynamic C® Premier For Rabbit 2000 Microprocessor Dynamic C 
• Cristal Controls Ltd Announces Release of NanoTool 64®
• University of Notre Dame Selects Simplex* for Major Fire Alarm System Upgrade
• Wiremold Company News: Cabling Pathways for Fiber Optic Systems / Fiber Optic Passive Interconnect Components / Rack Mount Fiber Optic Fiber Management / Cabling System Adds Fiber Optic Capability / Test and Termination Accessories / Wall Mount Fiber Optic Fiber Management

• Echelon News: Industry Leaders Back Echelon's LonWorld2000™ Conference and Exhibition / NTT DATA Partners With Echelon to Provide LonWorks® Training in Japan

• TAC acquires CSI, forms new company.  Europe's fastest growing integrated building automation company continues global expansion

• NEMA Approves Direct Adoption of Latest National Electrical Code

New Products 

• New Products: Belimo's New Programmable Actuator / Circon Provides End User Flexibility With WebControl™  / Power Measurement  7350 ION Three Phase Digital Power Meter / Reliable Controls - MACH-Zone Unitary Controller / Price Prodigy® / Soundsational Signal™ Home Theater Sound Cables from Coleman Cable / New 7600 ION Meter from Power Measurement  

Articles for September

• DDC Networks:...is the question really: BACnet™ or LonWorks™?  The intent here is to answer that question with a simpler question "What are you trying to accomplish, and does one protocol, or more specifically control and network products based upon it, provide a better solution than the other? John J. "Jack" McGowan, Hydroscope Inc, USA
• The Advantage of Precise Ventilation Control for Schools  IAQ Can Promote or Sabotage a School's Core Mission - Educating our Children, Len Damiano, Ebtron Inc.
• SURVIVOR: The Real Story  A Technology Tug "O" War for Smart Devices.   It is just good to know that there are options, and there are pioneers who believe that it is better to work together than defeat one another. Keith Scuilli,  ProSyst USA, Inc.
• Implications of New Fiber Optic Bend Radius Standard in Cabling Pathways  The structured cabling industry is witnessing several major trends, including the increased use of accessible, flexible wire and cable management systems that facilitate moves, adds, and changes. Kent McCord, The Wiremold Company
• Providing "Ventilation for Acceptable Indoor Air Quality What are some of the practical implications of compliance with ASHRAE Standard 62-1999? Len Damiano, EBTRON, Inc.
• Z-World and the Capricorn 2000^TM Become Your Local Weather Team  "Suppose it is extremely windy, or remarkably hot, this information could drastically change how firefighters prepare."  Tamara Kaestner, Z-World
• Building Automation: The Net Effect  Someday, engineers and managers will wonder how they ever got along without it.  Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com 

September's Product, Software and Web Site Reviews

• On Line Training  Often I am asked where can we get training for our Building Automation people?  Whether it is for the orientation of new puppies just entering the industry or for the updating of the old dogs, training and access to current on line information is cardinal for the growth of our industry. Rapid changes with new complex relationships plus protocols are developing daily. Our on line resource/portal has attempted to provide connection to some of the web resources. The following review will provide you a quick summary of the type of information that is available for our industry.

• Complete Television-Based Interface to Digital Homes and Neighborhoods  AutomatedBuildings likes to point out trends that are occurring in other industries that will likely have a significant effect on our industry. Our sponsor Coactive is an active leader in development and deployment of Residential Gateways and this release has a message for our industry because when these concepts become widely accepted in the home the ripple effect will  be seen by our industry.

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