INTERVIEW ARCHIVES

Our interview section allows busy industry leaders to quickly provide insight into rapidly evolving industry issues. If you have subject matter or industry issues you would like insight into or would like to be interviewed yourself contact us. sinclair@automatedbuildings.com   Following are the interviews published todate.

ASHRAE & BIM Update
Gordon Holness, President Elect, ASHRAE
As we struggle through these times of accelerating energy costs and concerns for climate change, it is important to remember that buildings consume 40% of all energy use in the United States and 76% of all electrical use. Information technology, whether illustrated by BIM, smart meters, smart grids or intelligent control systems, can help us monitor and control energy use and ultimately save both energy and cost. ASHRAE’s end goal is to provide the technology for net zero energy buildings - “buildings which, on an annual basis, use no more energy than is provided by on-site renewable energy sources.” Stay tuned for continuing developments.

Meet the "Father of BACnet®"
H. Michael Newman of Cornell University
In an interview with Contemporary Controls, H. Michael Newman tells his story of leading the charge for adopting the BACnet® protocol, and the battles and victories that ensued. He describes the development of BACnet, its greatest strengths and much more.

Open Source for Open Systems – Progress Report
Anno Scholten, Novus Edge
The success of any Open Source Software (OSS) initiative is building a community.

Daylighting in Demand Response Situations.
J. David Wilson. President. Lighting Control & Design
The ideal daylight harvesting systems reflects a balance between the energy manager’s requirements for ROI, and the HR manager’s concerns for occupant satisfaction.

Growing Interest and Participation in Demand Response
Gene Ameduri, President and co-founder of EnergyConnect
Increased involvement in voluntary, market driven demand response programs reflects the growing interest on the part of consumers in adopting new ways to regain control of their electricity budgets and more and more customers are seeing the value of participating.

On-demand Energy and Asset Management Solutions
Dan Sharplin, Chairman and CEO Site Controls
Specifically designed for chain retailers, financial institutions and drug stores, the company’s solutions incorporate energy efficiency, corporate social responsibility, comfort and controls, operational intelligence, and demand response services.

Demand Response in Ontario
Peter Kelly-Detwiler, Rob Reale, Constellation NewEnergy
Demand Response (DR) is a relatively new concept in Canada with Ontario being the first Canadian Province to establish a DR Program

A "visionary" and I discuss embracing change
Keith E. Gipson, CTO, PhoenixESG 2008 Buildy Vision Award winner
I been very blessed to be able to express and demonstrate my passion for buildings and our industry throughout my career.

Building Information Modeling
Willem Kymmell, Architect, Assoc. Prof. in Construction Management at Cal. State Univ. Chico
All the concepts boil down to ‘better understanding through better visualization’, and ‘better understanding allows better communication’.

Low power wireless networks
Cees Links, Chief Executive Officer, GreenPeak Technologies
Our new Emerald GP500C is the only IEEE 802.15.4 standard compliant chip available today with extreme low power features that enable energy harvesting solutions for wireless sensor networks. 

ZigBee for Energy Management
Robert LeFort, CEO Ember
According to The Brattle Group technologies like ZigBee can help reduce peak electricity demand by at least five percent over the next few years. This reduction could save consumers more than $3 billion in annual electricity costs, and help reduce the $50-$100 billion in losses that businesses suffer each year due to power outages and brownouts.

Emerging Demand Response Opportunities
Bob Zak,  President, Powerit Solutions
Some very small changes in our consumption behavior, widely adopted, would ease our energy concerns to a level that is almost unbelievable.

Advanced Multi-Display Capabilities
Liv Stewart, Sales Representative for Critical Decision Systems, Matrox Graphics Inc.
A remote graphics unit that provides the ability to remotely power up to 4 digital or analog displays; 6 USB devices, such as keyboard and mouse; and audio peripherals, such as speakers and/or a microphone, up to 820 ft form the host computer.

Open Source for Open Systems – Follow up to ConnectivityWeek  Anno Scholten, Novus Edge
I would like to start a community called OpenLynx where I would like to bring these and several other open source initiatives together to discuss how we can all collaborate on a common goal for our industry.

ConnectivityWeek 2008
Peter Kelly-Detwiler Senior Vice President, Energy Technology Services, Constellation NewEnergy & Leighton Wolffe Vice President, Alliances and Strategy for Constellation NewEnergy
ConnectivityWeek was very significant as it incorporated seven different industry events under one roof for the first time, including DR-Expo.

What is OPC and how will it play a key in the future of Building Automation?
Tom Burke, President, OPC Foundation & Sean Leonard, VP Products, MatrikonOPC
OPC is a communication standard for the transfer of process data to the decision makers in real-time.

Openness and the Energy Connection
Mark Hunter, Founder, Integration Systems Ltd Corporation (ISL Corp.)
Our mission is to lower the barriers to so called sophisticated building control systems
for upgrading to 'Smart or Intelligent' Buildings.

Why is security an important issue in smart metering?
Jim Alfred, Director Product Management for Certicom Corporation
Moving from automated meter reading to advance metering infrastructure, smart meters and Home Area Networks of smart energy devices create new security challenges for metering companies and consumers alike.

Convergence in Action
Tom Shircliff, Rob Murchison, IntelligentBuildings®
Take action with convergence and intelligent buildings strategies, use technology for the right reasons and deal with the real roadblocks.

Convergence Needs to Make Sense
John Greenwell, President CEPORT, LLC
We take a holistic view of the building, this means understanding the purpose of the building, how people utilize the building, what business processes are in use and how the mechanical systems were designed.

Smart Grid Legislation and ConnectivityWeek Energize GridWise Architecture Council
Steve Widergren, Administrator GridWise Architecture Council
Smart grid activities continue to build steam as we apply automation to enhance electric system operational efficiency and reliability, while better enabling the integration of environmentally sensitive approaches to energy use and production. 

Innovative Solutions to Address the Nation’s Energy
Rodney (Rod) M. Boucher, CEO of Microfield Group, Inc.
The advances in next generation demand response we are seeing today are only the beginning. As more technologies such as smart meters, economic distributed solar power, advanced storage, and enhanced software platforms enter the market, the opportunities for demand response and other market driven opportunities will increase dramatically.

The Virtual Energy Forum
Robert Rosenbloom, CEO PlatformQ, LLC
A unique online-only event on energy and sustainability June 10 & 11 on the Web.

Video Surveillance Continues to Grow—But Are We Letting the Bad Guys Get Away?
Paul Bodell, Officer, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, IQinVision
Security veteran weighs in on getting better results from all that video surveillance equipment that’s not doing the job

CABA Intelligent Buildings Leadership Forum
Jeff Seewald, PE, Intelligent Building Systems Engineer
From the Conference Room to the Boiler Room, and Beyond

The Focus at Automated Logic
Lauren Kolb, Executive Vice President, Automated Logic Corporation
The latest strategic focus at Automated Logic involves building company-owned, customer-focused branches in select markets that enable us to continue our goal of bringing leadership, innovation and simplicity to the complexities of building controls.

MEP Jobs
Jeff Dickey-Chasins is VP Marketing, MEP Jobs
MEP Jobs is the leading supplier of jobs and skilled industry talent for the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing industries.

Green Intelligent Buildings Conference
April 2-3, 2008 Hyatt Regency Baltimore
Engineered Systems Magazine

The Energy Imperative
Gregg Dixon, Senior VP of Sales and Business Development, EnerNOC
Energy management is more than just good for the environment and local communities – it’s primarily good for the bottom line.

Industry Certification
Jim Sinopoli, Principal, Sinopoli and Associates
There is definitely a need for manufacturer-independent certification to legitimize and provide credibility to the industry.

The Virtual Building Operations Center
George B. Huettel, PE, President, Cyrus Technologies, Inc.
A VBOC approach towards building controls is not only more user friendly for the average tenant or consumer of information, but it is kept up and running by the outsourced supplier.

Vote Buildy in 2008
Frank Capuano, President,  Strata Resource Inc
The Award for an Industry of Innovation and Intelligent Connections

The Interviewer gets Interviewed
In a twist of roles this month the interviewer gets interviewed By George Thomas, President of Contemporary Controls. for their newsletter The Extension.

What is Performance Based Building Design & Operations? 
Thomas Hartman, P.E. The Hartman Company
That is why this position paper is a developing project that is intended to be fueled by the good ideas and concerns of all interested readers and reviewers. I hope all the automatedbuildings.com readers will join the process. We ask that all interested in this issue submit comments on the paper – and future versions as they are developed.

The 2008 Niagara Summit
Marc Petock, Director, Global Marketing & Communications, Tridium, Inc.
The 2008 Niagara Summit is an open exchange conference that focuses on interoperability, integration and connecting diverse systems and smart devices.

BuilConn Santa Clara - “Empowering the Energy Revolution”
Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO, Clasma Events Inc.
The challenges I hear now are: how to make this growth happen, how to improve business, reduce risk, find resources, and generally, how to deliver solutions to building owners.

CABA and Eaton Corporation
Ron Zimmer, President CABA
CABA will be coordinating with Eaton Corporation at a two-day charrette, which will allow approximately 40 people to gather in March.

The In–Building Wireless Alliance
Dr. Anand K. Iyer, President In-Building Wireless Alliance
The IBWA formed informally in 2004 from a few in-building wireless product and service providers and commercial real estate owners. We felt that there was an inherent value in the implementation of in-building wireless and we decided to set out to quantify it.

What is OPC?
Randy Kondor, Vice President of Education, OPC Foundation
OPC is a communication standard that enables controllers and PCs to communicate with each other to exchange automation data.

Wireless Valve Actuators?
Alex Leneveu, Director of Operations, Spartan Peripheral Devices
The market is missing the end devices and we wanted to be the first to introduce this wireless valve actuator.

Controls Vendor Free
Edmund B. Richards, President and CEO, Richards-Zeta
Building owners and facility managers now have the ability to select building systems, components, smart equipment, and applications and services by a "best of breed" approach.

Converting Engineered Services into a Deliverable Product
Nathan F. Rothman , President, Optimum Energy, LLC
In the pursuit of clean technologies for industry I came across Tom Hartman and his work and immediately saw an opportunity. The concept was obvious to me. Take what was an engineered service and convert it to a deliverable product.

Innovation Award Winner AHR 2008
Tom Checksfield, General Manager, Tek-Air Systems, Inc
The AccuValve is an air flow control valve used in labs and critical environments for accurate air flow measurement and control.

Intelligent Sustainable Agreements
Jeff Seewald, PE, Intelligent Building Systems Engineer, Paul Ehrlich, PE, President Building Intelligence Group LLC
There are many areas within the LEED Green Building Rating System to which Intelligent Building practices and technologies may be applied.

A North American Trend?
Todd Cowles, Americas Sales Manager, Trend Control Systems
Trend grew up in the UK. They’re the dominant player in the controls industry in that country by far, and have been for many years. They are well established in Europe and the Middle East, and the Americas are a huge growth target at the moment.

Russia is Open to Open Protocols
Andrey Golovin, Executive Director BIG-RU (BACnet Interest Group Russia)
Like everywhere in the world open protocols are dominating in Russia.

New  Marketing Focus Recommended 
Ron Caffrey, Partner BCS Partners
With all the attention to energy conservation, air quality, occupant productivity and green buildings, why do you feel the market won't grow at a faster rate?

More 2008 Events
Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO, Clasma Events Inc.
A great deal of what’s been talked about related to the future of buildings will start to unfold in 2008.

Buildings 2 Smart Grid Summit 
Anto Budiardjo is President & CEO of Clasma Events Inc.
January 21, 2008, New York

The difference between GridWise and Demand Response?
Jack" Mc Gowan, CEM Energy Control Inc., GridWise Architecture Council Chairman
I like to think of Demand Response as the first business model that is getting traction in the larger world of GridWise.  GridWise is about interoperability on a broad scale including the full spectrum of electricity infrastructure and technology from generation through end use of

DR-Expo
David Katz, BA, MBA, Sustainable Resources Management Consultant, and Project Manager for the Building Intelligence Quotient Consortium
The fact that the North American GRID system operators have finally created DR programs that are funded to the same degree as new generation capacity and are accepted by the reliability councils is a positive step in the right direction.

The NewEnergy Alliance
Leighton Wolffe, Principal, Wolffe Technology Consultants
The NewEnergy Alliance is a group committed to driving innovation in the building automation industry that will create smarter, more energy responsive buildings. The NewEnergy Alliance has been formed in response to a growing commitment to sustainability and to reducing the carbon footprint of the established building environment.

Lynxspring University
Terry Swope, President & Sean Jones, Training Manager, Lynxspring, Inc.
Unique training programs targeted to the building automation, energy services, power/utility, and industrial sectors.

BAS and EGB and the State of the Industry
Thomas Hartman, P.E. The Hartman Company
It’s clear that in the last year our clients and society in general have moved much further in their expectations for sustainable buildings than this industry has moved in our ability to effectively implement them.

New Products from Viconics Inc./BETA Partner Program
Trevor S Palmer, Marketing Manager, Viconics Inc.
Essentially we have enhanced the VT7000 series communicating thermostats with new features and applications.

CABA Intelligent Buildings Taskforce
Taskforce Members
The task force consists of  board members, IBRM sponsors, and selected consultants.

BACnet International Conference and Expo
BACnet International
This year’s conference still features our successful exhibition with industry companies, as well as expanded content to include information on BACnet (ASHRAE standard 135-2004) – a Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks, cutting-edge work for open systems and next generation lighting, as well as the latest in intelligent buildings.

The 4th Building Automation Conference
ES Magazine
will join forces with BACnet International to provide the latest information you need on Building Automation and Sustainability!

2007 - Looking Back and Ahead
Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO of Clasma Events Inc.
For integrators and contractors, Demand Response or DR means immediate business returns and an opportunity to leverage DR to establish a better value proposition to their customers. For owners, DR will provide a way to reduce energy costs by tapping into the incentives the utilities are providing right now.

Drop-in Networking Solutions
Chris Collis, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Digi International
Digi launches Drop-in Networking solutions to help organizations easily automate their facilities.

RF Interference Problems
Mark Walters, Chairman, Z-Wave Alliance
In short, there can be RF interference in any band. Some bands are more crowded than others, and some applications are more susceptible than others.

Grid Interop: Closing the “Distance to Integrate”
Steve Widergren, Administrator, GridWise Architecture Council
 If you think of the effort to make automation systems interact as a “distance to integrate,” then the objective of the Grid Interop meeting is to engage business leaders and integration technologists across the electric system community to develop actionable steps that close or reduce the distance to integrate.

ConnectivityWeek / BuilConn Chicago Report - Anto Budiardjo
For practitioners participating this space, a great deal was uncovered in how Building-IT convergence is starting to play out; delivering real value to owners and tangible opportunities for the industry.

GridWise Applied - Jack Mc Gowan
The Objective and criteria for the award is to highlight real-world application/implementation of GridWise Architecture Council (GridWise AC) interoperability principles in products, services and projects.

BuilConn 2007 - Denis Du Bois
The conference was an interactive environment where attendees helped shape big ideas, such as Buildings 2.0 and GridWise.

oBIX, Building 2.0 from Toby's Blog - Toby Considine
The National Building Information Modeling Standard (NBIMS) and the oBIX committee have met to explore relationships between the standards, focusing on whether Energy Models developed directly against NBIMS models can be compared to live data from control systems read by oBIX to produce live models (or instantaneous commissioning)".

Buildy 2007 - Frank Capuano
2007 Buildy Awards Honor Convergence and Integration Experts at Premier Event for Networked Buildings

BuilConn 2007  - Brooke Richards
BuilConn continues to provide a forum for industry players to discuss and endorse new technologies and solutions which promote the converged network. 

DC to Chicago, the road to Buildings 2.0
Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO of Clasma Events Inc.
The Buildings 2.0 initiative promotes green initiatives and sustainable designs as well as the use of Information Technology to further the vision.

GridWise™ Architecture Council Framework for Interoperability
Steve Widergren, Administrator, GridWise Architecture Council
The framework is more abstract than an architecture or a design, and it certainly isn’t a solution you can implement. 

BIQ
Ron Zimmer, President & CEO, CABA
Building Intelligence Quotient is an assessment and rating tool and a design guidance tool.

NECA-IBEW at BuilConn
Marty Riesberg, NJATC & Joe Salimando of www.eleblog.com
The NJATC is taking an active role in the upcoming BuilConn because there seems to be a general feeling in the building automation industry that there is a “lack of training” in the field.

Richards-Zeta (RZ) Partner's Realizing the Value of Normalized Building Systems Data 
Edmund B. Richards, President and CEO, Richards-Zeta
This eliminates the need for multiple host workstations for each building system and most importantly now allows the leveraging of the IP network and all the application, services and client views that are available worldwide.

Smart Customers, Smart Buildings
Peter Kelly-Detwiler, Senior Director of Energy Technology Services, Constellation NewEnergy and Leighton Wolffe, Principal, Wolffe Technology Consultants
A smart customer with a smart building will know what prices may be at certain hours and what technology exists in his building to take advantage of this knowledge.

GridWise Alliance
Steve Hauser, Executive Director GridWise Alliance and Vice President of Strategy for GridPoint
We believe, for example, that electrical “loads” (e.g., equipment and appliances) must actively participate in the day-to-day  and even minute-to-minute) operation of the electric grid in the future.

Formation of a perfect storm
Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO of Clasma Events Inc.
The world of convergence in 2007

Airbee Wireless
Raj Sundaresan – Director and CEO, Airbee Wireless
Airbee Wireless is a leading end-to-end provider of intelligent embedded software solutions for low-power RF mesh networking.

ENFORMA^® Building Diagnostics™ Software
Vernon A. Smith, PE, Architectural Energy Corporation
Automated Performance Assessment for Central Plan HVAC Systems

The State of Sustainability
Thomas Hartman, P.E. The Hartman Company
All of us need to ready ourselves to participate in projects wherein we can assure that sustainable principles are really applied so that energy use and resource depletion are truly reduced by orders of magnitudes.

Vykon Security
Marc Petock, Director of Marketing, Tridium, Inc.
It is the first security system to be built entirely on the NiagaraAX® Framework and can connect seamlessly to any building automation system.

Energy Manager
Mike Taylor,  Vice President of Americas Marketing Honeywell Building Solutions
Energy Manager is an advanced energy management and information system that integrates with building systems.

Green Buildings
Barry Haaser, Senior Director of the LonWorks Infrastructure Business at Echelon Corporation
– beyond materials and into energy

Device Networking
Brian Tutor, Product Manager, Lantronix
Device Networking is the ability to quickly and securely connect virtually any type of equipment to the network or Internet via Ethernet or 802.11 wireless.

New Standard in Wireless Sensors for the Building Automation Market
William LaPointe - President and CEO, Spinwave Systems, Inc.
Wireless sensors and networking have the potential to transform the building automation market due to lower installation costs and flexibility that will support a range of applications that were not feasible or possible with a conventional wired system.

GridWeek Takes Shape
Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO, Clasma Events Inc.
To be discussed at GridWeek will be hot topics such as demand response, real time pricing, alternative energy and distributed generation. Many of the solutions to the shortfall in electricity will come down to reducing demand especially at peak load times, and much of this will happen in buildings through building automation.

Sixteen Isn’t So Sweet
Ron Poskevich, General Manager, Lumisys
Until recently, integrated lighting control was specified in Division 16 because of tradition; not because it was efficient or effective. The result of this out of date specification method make integrated lighting control needlessly more expensive and troublesome to construct.

BuilConn Middle East
Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO, Clasma Events Inc.
The focus of BuilConn ME is on communicating to owners and developers how they should be looking at smart buildings and how they should be thinking on designing and procuring the systems that make their buildings intelligent.

oBIX is now an OASIS Committee Specification
Paul Ehrlich PE, President, Building Intelligence Group
Toby Considine – Technology Officer, Facility Services, University of North Carolina
Being approved as an OASIS committee standard means that oBIX has had a successful public review and that the committee has voted for approval.

The Integrator's View - The Four Points Project
Craig Arnott, NSW Controls Team Leader, Airmaster Australia Pty. Ltd.
I would have to say there were no real obstacles, however the challenge was to install new controls in 630 hotel rooms, 18 function rooms/areas, 42 office and public area air conditioning units, plus the chiller and boiler plants - in a 'live' building that consistently has hotel occupancy figures over 90%.

Smart Buildings
Jim Sinopoli, Principal, Sinopoli and Associates, and author of the book "Smart Buildings"
Smart buildings offer facility managers a much greater set of tools to save money, energy and personnel.

BuilConn Singapore
Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO, Clasma Events Inc.
As with the first events in the US and Europe, this Singapore event will focus on gathering the players and thought leaders in the new world of convergence.

Cisco Connected Real Estate practice in Asia Pacific Region
Aik Peng Tan, Senior Manager, Cisco Integrated Solutions Group
After the success of the BuilConn events in US and Europe, Cisco was excited to learn that the event was coming to Asia.

Smart, High-Performance Buildings
Michael Brambley, Staff Scientist in Energy Technology Development, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
When I use the term smart buildings, I define it as building systems that collect data, process it in the traditional sense of performing numerical analyses, then interpreting the results of those analyses to reach conclusions about the status of the building or the system, and finally automatically implementing appropriate actions in response.

Sky High: Rising Energy Costs and the Growing Demand for High Performance Buildings
Denis Du Bois, MIT Enterprise Forum
MIT Enterprise Forum event on November 8 will be about new technologies and real-world energy strategies for commercial buildings.

ConnectivityWeek Amsterdam & Singapore
Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO, Clasma Events Inc.
ConnectivityWeek is what we call the week of activities surrounding BuilConn.

BuilConn Track “Selling Connected Buildings”
Gary Bark, Managing Director, CONVERGED Building Solutions Ltd
It is our customers that that will change the industry, we need the technologists to drive the boundaries and we need end users to be convinced of the business case and the value proposition it will bring to their organization.

On the road with GridWise
Jack Mc Gowan, GridWise Council Member
Everyone seems to want to know what GridWise is about and how it will affect their world.

Cisco in Amsterdam
Rick Huijbregts, Director for Tourism, Real Estate and Construction, Cisco
BuilConn has been a great venue for us to share our vision and our go-to-market strategies; but also proved to be a great venue where we were able to learn about the dynamics of the building technologies world.

ZigBee Comes to Rescue of Building Insurance Industry
Vasiliy Suvorov, CEO, MeshNetics, Mark Woolridge, Sales Director, BOX telematics
Standards-based solutions provide the security of having interoperable components available from different vendors. ZigBee now is the only open standard developed specifically for the short-range wireless monitoring.

Automated Machine Diagnostics
Brian Thompson, Founder, Managing Director, SENSUS M.I.
This year we will project videos of the FDDI engine working on real machines and have a fan that visitors can control on the Internet with a 3D control.

Communicating Thermostat Website
Trevor S Palmer, Marketing Manager Viconics Inc.
We have compiled a large shopping list of items on what a controls integrator would need to use our thermostats with system X or Y.

ZigBee for Eco-Friendly Buildings
Robert LeFort, CEO Ember
Embedding wireless ZigBee sensors and controls in building automation networks has huge potential for enabling cleaner, safer, greener buildings through reduced energy consumption, more efficient building utilization, better security, etc.

RZ System Integrator's realizing Cisco Connected Real Estate (CCRE) Opportunities
Edmund B. Richards, President and CEO, Richards-Zeta
Our SI's are joining forces with the Cisco Account Managers, who have learned about RZ through the CCRE Training Programs and summits held worldwide as well as from RZ's Cisco Partner Solution Profile.

LonMark IP-852
Hans-Jörg Schweinzer (LOYTEC), Serge LeMen (Newron System), Harald Hasenclever (SVEA) and Gert-Ulrich Vack (SysMik)
The IP-852 channel is a standard in Europe (EN 14908-4) and the US (EIA/CEA-852).

The future at Tridium
Steve Fey, President, Tridium
Looking ahead, we will continue to invest in both R&D and marketing to both meet the needs of our existing customers and to more rapidly expand into industrial automation and M2M applications.

Fuzzy Logic
Anwer Bashi, Senior Research Engineer, Computrols, Inc.
Fuzzy logic is a proven AI technology for mapping human knowledge into computers and creating sophisticated control strategies using human-understandable logic. As building automation technology gets more complex and interconnected, and as more is expected from building engineers, artificial intelligence will have to play a greater role in building automation systems.

Life-Cycle Costing
Thomas M. (Thom) Keel
Life-cycle costing has become de rigueur for anyone embracing sustainability.

Singapore 2006
Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO Clasma Events Inc.
It has been said many times before that Asia, and especially Singapore is leading the charge with Intelligent Buildings.

Intelligent Buildings
Paul Ehrlich, President, Building Intelligence Group
We have seen strong progress toward delivery of Intelligent Buildings. The technologies have become more economical, the integrators more sophisticated, but most importantly owners are starting to demand it.

Wireless Device Networking Market
John Morris, Vice President - Americas, Jennic, Ltd.
There are markets that ZigBee talks about, like home and building controls, industrial automation and the like, but watch out for health care devices, office equipment, AMR, and some consumer products you simply won’t believe.

What is the Mediator™ platform?
David Leimbrock, Director of Engineering, Richards-Zeta
The Mediator™ platform provides an integration framework, known as the Multi-Protocol Exchange (MPX™), which allows for the convergence of multiple disparate building systems onto an IP network.

BuilConn Next Steps – Going Global
Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO Clasma Events Inc.
ConnectivityWeek is our new umbrella brand to “house” BuilConn, M2M, GridWise and Wi-tivity. It’s a brand we will use around the world to gather subjects related to connectivity of devices and systems, such as building controls and automation.

Building Automation 2006
Robert Beverly, Editor Engineered Systems Magazine
We felt that there was a need for a conference that was delivered regionally, summarized the issues and was focused on owners and consultants.

Digital Signage Systems
Jeffrey Soong, CEO 1-2-1VIEW Corporation
Digital signage has the potential to transform a building into a modern and highly attractive venue with substantial revenue potential.

Pacific Northwest GridWise™ Testbed Demonstration
Don Hammerstrom, Ph.D., Project Manager, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
I believe the word “testbed” reflects our hope for an enduring field demonstration site where progressive utilities and the lab can test various emerging innovations, equipment, and tools. Our present “testbed” extends over four cities and multiple regulatory entities in Washington and Oregon and involves several utilities.

Tendril Bridge for Building Automation
Tim Enwall, CEO, Tendril
Allows Niagara users to use our system software to quickly build wireless networks and manage them in the same context they manage their wired devices. It’s the first and only product that bridges the gap between multiple new wireless systems and existing control systems.

FlexiPanel partners with Microchip Technology
Richard G Hoptroff, Managing Director, FlexiPanel Ltd
Partnership to reduce the cost of automating buildings with ZigBee.

What is the BiQ?
Kirk McElwain is representing the BiQ Consortium
BiQ stands for Building Intelligence Quotient.

GridWise™ Expo Co-Located with BuilConn®
Jack Mc Gowan, President of Energy Control Inc
BuilConn participants will learn how the Intelligent Building has morphed into the Intelligent Enterprise and is on the way to the World Wide Grid. GridWise was a topic at BuilConn last year, but it is a strong force this year. Dramatic events and price spikes in the energy world combined with a continuing emphasis on interoperability, and a national focus on business developments in the “Energy Space” make this a must participate event.

M2M@BuilConn
Glen Allmendinger, President & CEO Harbor Research, Inc.
A simple way to look at this in terms of a business model and economic returns is to ask whether my device is going to be part of an ecosystem at all, who will be in the value chain and how will they organize around my asset or vice versa?

Why Palm Springs is Important
Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO Clasma Events Inc.
Today we’re standing at a very significant watershed of change; this is not only my prediction but represents the billion dollar actions of companies from major traditional players to new IT entrants. This is also being driven by the demands of owners, now inquisitive (and willing to spend money) about how IT can better their buildings.

LONMARK at BuilConn
Earl Gray, Chairman, LONMARK Americas Board of Directors
LONMARK members — including manufacturers, distributors, engineers, system integrators, facility managers and end-users — will learn how to find new business, make new partnerships and leverage membership investment.

What’s Relational Control?
Thomas Hartman, P.E. The Hartman Company
What can you tell us about this control technology and why it deserves a special name.

The ZigBee Alliance
Bob Heile, Chairman ZigBee Alliance
The ZigBee Alliance is a global ecosystem of companies creating wireless solutions for use in home, commercial and industrial applications.

Graphics hardware for mission-critical areas like central monitoring and building automation
Serge Bohdjalian, Senior Marketing Representative, Matrox Graphics Inc.
Various studies report productivity gains of 10 to 50% from using multiple displays. Productivity is improved by reducing the amount of time spent moving information that doesn't otherwise fit on screen.

2006 Niagara Summit
Marc Petock, Director of Marketing Tridium
The 2006 Niagara Summit is all about practical ideas, expanding knowledge and exchanging information that members of the Niagara Community can use today. This year’s theme is Connecting Minds and Machines.

Understanding the Connectivity Law
Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO Clasma Events Inc.
Anto’s Connectivity Law: “The value of a piece of information is proportional to the number of uses that piece of information is connected to.”

Sensicast Gives Automated Buildings “The Wireless Advantage”
Gary Ambrosino, CEO, Sensicast Systems, Inc
Sensicast’s wireless sensor systems operate in buildings across North America and Europe providing robust and reliable monitoring of temperature, process, and energy as well as information for predictive maintenance.

Making Success a Standard: A New Approach
Al De Wachter, President, Independent Control Specialists Inc.
While industry complexity grows and technologies remain forever in flux, the tasks of estimating, design and submittal can finally be rationalized and standardized.

Web Services Track at BuilConn
Tim Huneycutt, VP Engineering, Gridlogix Inc
We will have speakers from the many areas where Web Services is being used, ranging from the oBIX and ASHRAE initiatives to applications available from Echelon, Gridlogix and others.

Realcomm NextGen Asia Tour
Jim Young, Founder & Producer, Realcomm
These projects assume that technology will continue to change our lives and they are incorporating this vision into these Real Estate projects.

IT-Convergence – Have we crossed the chasm?
Allan McHale, Director, i&i Ltd
Not quite; for the last three years techies and visionaries have taken the plunge and have invested in IT-Convergence solutions, but the pragmatists still have to be convinced of the business case.

IBB Back at BuilConn 2006!
Leighton Wolffe
The IBB seems to have taken on a life of its own with people interested in joining us on stage.

Next Wave of Convergence: BAS along with Voice, Video & Data
David W Clute, Customer Solution Manager, Advisory Services - Cisco Systems
If the design of the converged network occurs early enough in the building design and construction life-cycle, there are actually capital expense savings.

Honeywell Acquires Tridium
Mike Taylor, Vice President of Marketing, Honeywell Building Solutions
Honeywell invested because we believe in Tridium’s technology and its people.

(From our January issue read) - The recent acquisition of Tridium by Honeywell
John Petze, President & CEO and Marc Petock, Director of Marketing Tridium
Our customers should see a renewed commitment and investment along with the same great technology and support.

Buildy is Back in 2006
Frank Capuano, President of Strata Resource Inc., Manager of the Buildy Awards Program and Editor of the BuilConn Update for Clasma Inc.
The Industry Award in a Time of Innovation and Convergence

Ember and STMicroelectronics partnership boosts the ZigBee market
Robert M. Metcalfe, Chairman, Ember Corp.
Our mission is to network embedded micro-controllers with standards-based radio semiconductors and protocol software.

The New Face of BACnet
Ben H. Dorsey III, VP of Communications KMC Controls, Inc and newly-elected Marketing Committee Chair BACnet International
We will be a resource to the greater body of BACnet users, product providers, service providers, and building professionals.

AHR and the Road to Palm Springs
Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO, Clasma Events Inc.
It was a perfect start of 2006, a year that will be a critical year for convergence. Cisco’s participation will make BuilConn Palm Springs a must-attend event for vendors, integrators, consultants and owners.

AHR “Innovation Award” Winner - Kiyon
John Edler, VP, Kiyon Inc.
Three factors that differentiate Kiyon are standards compatibility, ease of use, and state of the art wireless network technology.

Who is Lynxspring?
Terry D. Swope, President, Lynxspring, Inc. 
We have created a solution that is scalable -- from a unit controller to a Web-enabled supervisory level manager. 

The CrossTalk Platform
Donna Lee Hammond, Manager of Support Services/Account Representative, CW Industries & The CrossTalk Platform
The platform allows for the movement of data between dissimilar systems such as HVAC, facility management systems, database information, lighting, security/surveillance, etc.

The recent acquisition of Tridium by Honeywell
John Petze, President & CEO and Marc Petock, Director of Marketing Tridium
Our customers should see a renewed commitment and investment along with the same great technology and support.

What’s new for 2006 for EBTRON?  
Dave Dougan, President, EBTRON, Inc.
CENSus is a patent-pending new technology that uses non-PIR thermal principles to physically count and track human entrants and exits from a space.

Loytec 2006
Al Mouton, President of Loytec Americas, Inc
The LISA chip has features that support an Ethernet port, two LonWorks (EIA-709.1) ports and one BACnet port. 

Comments on Amsterdam
Anto Budiardjo, President & CEO, Clasma Events Inc.
Between HP and Cisco’s significant presence there, the release of the convergence study by i&i ProPlan, our partnership with ZigBee and OASIS and the many presentations and discussions on the subject, BuilConn Europe 2005 could be regarded as the turning point and uptake of Building-IT Convergence.

Pyxos™ Embedded Control Networks - Thinking Inside the Box™
Steve Nguyen, Director, Corporate Marketing, Echelon Corporation
The Pyxos platform is the world's first platform for embedded control networks – networks inside of machines.

Tridium Announces the JACE-2^® 
Marc Petock, Director of Marketing, Tridium, Inc. 
Provides major enhancements in modularity, scalability, flexibility, and functionality

Building Intelligence Tour – Who, What and Why
Paul Ehrlich, Founder and President of Building Intelligence Group
Andy Wilcox, Marketing Manager for Trane Global Control Systems
The Building Intelligence Tour is a series of educational seminars that help building owners, consulting engineers, integrators and suppliers understand the benefits, technology and solutions involved in Intelligent Buildings.

Building Intelligence and Infrastructure for Connected Real Estate™
with CPRZ Team, Doug Smith of Richards-Zeta, Jeff Paliga of Panduit, Dave Clute of Cisco
Richards-Zeta’s OMEGA® building intelligence platform, Panduit’s Network Cabling Infrastructure solutions and Cisco’s VoIP telephony, data and network storage solutions come together today, to better manage the buildings of tomorrow.

CoroWare Test Labs
Lloyd Spencer, CoroWare, Inc. and CoroWare Test Labs
We want to accelerate the emergence of a standards-based robotics components market so developers can bring new robotics solutions to market faster using existing, proven, interoperable components.

GridWise is a DOE initiative
Rik Drummond, Chair GridWise Architecture Council
GridWise is a DOE initiative to bring the North America electric grid into the 21^st century.

A Guide to the Automation Body of Knowledge
Vernon Trevathan, P.E., PMP
The intent is to bring together in one place information on the full range of technologies in automation so that those working in the field and also those wanting to understand it better can get a good grasp on the technology.

Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
Deepak Wanner, Precidia Technologies
A network configuration manager (NCM) is a tool that can help network and facility managers better monitor and control the devices on their network.

BuilConn Europe 2005 Update
Anto Budiardjo,  Clasma Events Inc.
....IP-enabled gateways that talk XML and Web services, to IP-centric products such as servers, hosted services, BACnet Web Services, oBIX, to a great deal of discussion on IP-based standards.

What does the Building Intelligence Group offer to Systems Integrators?
Leighton Wolffe, The Building Intelligence Group
The intent is to help elevate the professionalism and caliber of the System Integrator staff.

Wireless Sensing Solutions (2^nd Annual Event)
Tim Scannell, Conference Director of Wireless Sensing Solutions
This year’s event will explore actual deployments and solutions as well as include information on present and evolving technology.

P + XML + Wireless = Amsterdam
Anto Budiardjo, President of Clasma, Inc.
.....it is clear that IP-based technologies (XML, Web services, etc.) will dominate upper levels of building systems architecture.

BACnet Conference & Expo / Nashville Oct 23-25, 2005
Jon Williamson, BACnet Conference & Expo, Chairman
– More freedom than Ever

What is The Equal Marginal Performance Principle?
Tom Hartman, Principal, The Hartman Company
The Equal Marginal Performance Principle is an entirely new way of looking at systems that are composed of multiple power-modulating components such as fans, chillers, and pumps.

GridWise™ ...input is needed
Jack Mc Gowan, President of Energy Control Inc
I am really trying to connect with the European energy community to identify some speakers that can see the long term benefits of integration and interoperability as tools to improve electricity reliability, but also to save money.

BuilConn:  Next Stop Amsterdam
Anto Budiardjo, President of Clasma, Inc.
"In Amsterdam, wireless will be the strongest single subject covered"

Connectivity of Systems
John Petze, President & CEO, Tridium, Inc.
We believe that any real solution to interoperability has to embrace existing protocols and devices as well as the growing number of standards out there. The new standards are great as a path forward, but you need to provide owners with existing systems with a way to get on that path.

The Business Impact of Using Data to Drive Facility Operations
Bill Gnerre, CEO & Cofounder, Interval Data Systems, Inc.
It affects building and plant operations, design and construction engineering, utility billing, proactive maintenance, budgeting… pretty much everything under the facilities and utilities umbrellas.

Building Automation Solutions through Distribution
Jim Hayman, Director of Business Development, Controls Group North America
At CGNA, we see two-step distribution as the preferred channel for manufacturers of integration products to go to market.

Wireless Mesh Sensor Networking
Peter Stein, Vice President, Business Development and Marketing, Sensicast Systems
Wireless mesh sensor networks have been created to remove not only the costs of wires, but also the complexity associated with large volume wireless sensor deployments. 

Wireless Mesh Networks
Frank Capuano, President, Strata Resource Inc,  & Mark Pacelle, VP Marketing, Millennial Net  Mesh networks can optimize or increase the visibility into dynamic systems, such as the environmental conditions inside a commercial building or the condition of machinery in a manufacturing plant, without the cost and administration of a wired network.

XML and the Buildings Market
Steve Nguyen, Director Corporate Marketing, Echelon Corporation  We see the industry moving to a point where EVERY automation system, from HVAC to lighting to blind control will be accessible and controllable via an XML feed of some sort. 

Buildy Vision Award – One Year Later
Paul Ehrlich, President, Building Intelligence Group In 2004 Paul Ehrlich was awarded the first ever Buildy Vision Award. This award was based on peer nominations and voted on by BuilConn attendees.

Richards-Zeta's OMEGA - Finalist for Buildy Product of the Year Award
Ed Richards, President & CEO, Richards-Zeta  OMEGA is the first, and last, intelligent building solution you will need to manage the assets of one or multiple facilities in today's enterprise-wide business.

Tridium’s Niagara Appliance - Finalist for Buildy Product of the Year Award
John Petze, President & CEO, Tridium, Inc. Niagara Appliance builds in multi-protocol support in a single solution. The factory ships one product no matter what type of system it will be integrated with.

Turning Data into Action in XML Symposium Keynote
Jay Althof, Vice President Global Control Systems Group, Trane  Our industry must focus on XML not as a technology, but as a solution; giving insight on business system architecture implications that decision makers must understand.

Bringing Open Systems to Legacy BAS Environments
Steve Jones, Managing Partner, The S4 Group, Inc. by making the data previously locked inside the Metasys^® system available to other BAS and IT systems via open interfaces.

Wireless Sensor Networking Brings New Opportunities to Energy Management
Mark A. Noyes, CEO & President, WebGen Systems & Andy May, President & CEO, Millennial Net  One of the exciting characteristics of wireless sensor networking is that it really does open up possibilities for new products and services and creates flexibility in systems that have not traditionally been flexible.

Industry leaders come together:
People@BuilConn
Anto Budiardjo, President of Clasma, Inc., We have a lot more subjects and a lot more people with deep understanding of these subjects.

Trends@BuilConn
Ron Zimmer, President & CEO, CABA The issues to be covered include changes in CSI MasterSpec, LEED, CLA initiatives, M2M Device Networking, and how the information technology industry works.

Development@BuilConn
Anno Scholten, CTO, Plexus Technology Inc The Development track at BuilConn is designed for development engineers and product designers that are interested in the latest technologies being applied to building automation systems: XML/Web Services and Wireless.

LonWorks@BuilConn
Barry Hasser, Executive Director of LonMark® International We will discuss the key trends driving open systems and provide key perspectives on how to make open systems a common element of your business, whether you are an end-user, contractor, specifier or supplier.

BACnet@BuilConn
Jim Lee, President & CEO, Cimetrics Inc. The track will include a number of key BACnet experts to talk about the status, plans and implementation of BACnet.

oBix@BuilConn
Toby Considine
It is an exciting time, with the pieces falling into place, and the role of oBIX becoming apparent to a larger audience. Now we have to focus on the stylistic issues of XML, of making oBIX look like what the Enterprise is looking for, and we need the eyes of the entire controls industry to look on what we have, and to submit suggestions as to how to make it better.

Niagara@BuilConn
John Petze, President & CEO, Tridium, Inc.
A session that will help systems integrators, consulting engineers and facility owners and managers understand Niagara.

Enterprise@BuilConn
Paul Ehrlich, Building Intelligence Group
The concept of Enterprise Integration is that groups of buildings can now be centrally managed and also that we can connect Building Systems to Business Systems.

Wireless@BuilConn
Anto Budiardjo, President of Clasma, Inc.,
Wireless should be the most efficient way to connect devices in buildings.

OpenSystems@BuilConn
Leighton Wolffe
What are the benefits and business value of being able to integrate an ‘open’ building automation system onto a standard IT platform and into the business management systems in place at virtually every Fortune 1000 company today?

FM@Builconn
John Huston P.E. TENG & Associates, Inc./TENG Solutions
The FM@BuilConn track enables attendees to learn from those who have already experienced success applying technology to facility management.

Owners@BuilConn
Jim Young, Founder & Producer, Realcomm
The technology community needs to spend the first hour of every new relationship listening to what the client does and what are their business drivers, their problems that maybe technology can solve. 

M2M@BuilConn
Glen Allmendinger, President of Harbor Research, Inc.
The move to M2M is happening, and the pace of adoption is accelerating. It is not only possible, it is here.

Energy@BuilConn
Jack Mc Gowan, President of Energy Control Inc
BuilConn participants will learn how to position themselves for the opportunity to deliver technology that enables a more effective U.S. Electric System and integrates building consumption on a completely new level.

CaseStudies@BuilConn
Ken Sinclair, Owner /Editor of AutomatedBuildings.com
CaseStudies@BuilConn is all about peoples' success planning and implementing the new reality.

Buildy@BuilConn
Frank Capuano, President Strata Resource Inc.
The Industry Award Program in a Time of Innovation and Convergence

Blues@BuilConn - The "Interoperable Blues Band"
Leighton Wolffe
How did this work so well last year? It was the first time you all met, let alone played together - you guys didn’t even rehearse.

The Zigbee Revolution
William Sandoval, Business Development Manager, Digital Systems, Philips Lighting Electronics/Advance Transformer Zigbee is a short range, low-power protocol specifically designed for small building devices such as thermostats, lighting controls, ballasts, environmental sensors, and medical devices.

Update on oBIX
Aaron Hansen, Senior Software Engineer, Tridium The future of building automation will be a new breed of applications that connect facilities with traditional business units such as human resources and accounting, for functions such as cost savings and performance management.

Building Open Systems Seminar
Barry Haaser, Executive Director of LonMark® International  We expect the seminars to appeal to a number of industry professionals wrestling with open systems issues. The content is very rich and will be useful for architects, building and facility managers, consulting engineers, electrical and mechanical contractors, and system and network integrators.

2004 in Review
Jack Mc Gowan, President of Energy Control Inc  It seems inevitable at the beginning of a year to look back and consider last year in review.  What progress was made over the previous months?  In that light I took some time to visit with Jack Mc Gowan recently to get his perspective on significant events in integration and interoperability.

Intelligent Building Ranking System Request for Proposal
Thomas J. Lohner, P.E., Vice President, TENG Solutions The IB Ranking System will be an online tool intended to assist building owners/managers, the commercial real estate industry and other industry stakeholders assess the level of integrated systems within a building (i.e., develop a BIQ).

Review of 2004 and Preview of 2005
Anto Budiardjo, President of Clasma, Inc., December 2004 I think the stars are in alignment, building owners are truly starting to realize what is possible, the economy is steady, products are becoming available, and the distribution is primed.

CtrlSpecBuilder - Answers from the developers
Steve Tom, PE, PhD, Director of Technical Information, Automated Logic Corporation  November 2004  In a little over a year we’ve had over 16,000 visits to the CtrlSpecBuilder web site.  That may not sound like a lot compared to, say, Amazon.com, but CtrlSpecBuilder is a very specialized site.  Even the most hard-core HVAC geeks don’t spend their Saturday nights surfing the web to see if there’s anything new on HVAC Controls. 

Using Robotics in Building Management 
Lloyd Spencer, President and CEO CoroWare, Inc.  November 2004  Mobile service robots can monitor the efficiency of heating and cooling systems in real-time by roaming throughout a building, then reporting the results to maintenance personnel. 

The ABC’s of Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI): An Update
Stuart Berjansky Senior Product Manager, Controllable Lighting, Advance Transformer Company  November 2004 The introduction of DALI brings intelligence inside the ballast, transforming it to a “smart” device and ultimately allowing end users to set up virtually any lighting system configuration they desire. DALI’s versatility makes it ideal for use with the most sophisticated Building Management Systems (BMS).

Frost & Sullivan Interview Anto Budiardjo
November 2004 In an interview conducted by Frost & Sullivan, Anto Budiardjo, Clasma President, shares his thoughts on leadership and what it takes to succeed in the rapidly progressing networked buildings industry.

Using ControlSpecBuilder 
Greg McFarland, P.E., Mechanical Engineer, Davis Design  October 2004  I use it on any project that needs more than just a standard programmable thermostat, though I do use it occasionally on those types of systems when the system might be networked in the future and I want the current system to be ready for the connection.

Using CtrlSpecBuilder
Scott Sinclair , P Eng, Owner, President, Sinclair Environmental Solutions  October 2004  CtrlSpecBuilder is a great tool that allows an engineer to design a DDC system with the latest ASHRAE guidelines with BACnet Protocol.

The Who, What, Where, and When of BuilSpec  
Paul Ehrlich and Anto Budiardjo  September 2004  The BuilSpec seminar series was created to provide technical owners and consulting engineers with an objective and clear understanding of the technologies, initiatives and trends that are reshaping the building systems playing field.

An Outlet for Affordable Building Control Parts
Jeff Reid, Owner Automation Parts Warehouse  September 2004 We are a new start-up company providing an outlet for customers who have existing building control systems an avenue for affordable and reliable pre-owned parts.

Wireless Sensing Solutions Conference
Jennifer LaFond, Group Vice President, IDG World Expo  September 2004  Unlike the other sensor or networking events out there, this event addresses the specific challenges and the specific opportunities that one will encounter when creating a wireless sensor network.

i&i limited and Intelligent Buildings 2004 
Alan Kell MSc BSc, i&i limited  September 2004  We’ve got a focussed exhibition of leading companies and organisations, and an extensive conference programme designed to address three key questions: (i) why are intelligent buildings needed? (ii) what systems and solutions are now available for intelligent buildings? (iii) How do we deliver and manage intelligent buildings?

CABA’s Intelligent & Integrated Buildings Council
Thomas J. Lohner, P.E., Vice President, TENG Solutions August 2004 The IIBC was formed in 2002 as a direct result of the Technology Roadmap for Intelligent Buildings, a project funded by a number of Canadian government departments and managed by CABA.

myFacility Update 
Keith Gipson, CTO, Impact Facility Solutions  August 2004 By taking historical data collected from your HVAC, chiller and other systems and having a system that is not only capable of collecting, trending and graphing your data, but can also apply algorithms to determine how well your facility systems are actually operating is very powerful.

Automation products becoming commodities 
Tracy Markie, President of Engenuity Systems, Inc August 2004  More open systems:  This will be driven by lower installation costs due to better implementation and deployment tools and technologies, wider product availability, more standards, wider acceptance, and easier, even seamless integration of systems.

The technology inside the Lisa “BACnet on a chip” 
Jim Lee, President & CEO, Cimetrics Inc.  July 2004  The interest level for BACnet is growing and the industry is looking at ways of developing and using more BACnet products to implement more BACnet system solutions.

BuilSpec 2004 – Specifying in a time of convergence  
Anto Budiardjo, President of Clasma, Inc.  July 2004 The objective is to bring much needed education on the dynamics driving open systems, integration and IT convergence to consulting and specifying engineers.

DDC Online  
Maria Corsi, Technical Director of the National Building Controls Information Program, Iowa Energy Center   July 2004  DDC Online is a web-based resource that specifying engineers, commissioning providers, building owners, facility managers and others can draw upon to make informed decisions about building controls based on credible information.

Europe centric Advisory Board for BuilConn Europe  
Madeleine Bath, Clasma  July 2004  Being predominantly a European event, it was important for us to have key players in Europe; I believe you currently work mainly in North America which is why you may not know many of the names. In Europe these names are the thought leaders in integration of HVAC, Security and IT.

BuilConn Europe
Anto Budiardjo, President of Clasma, Inc. June 2004  BuilConn Europe is very much a Europe event; it’s not just a transplant of an American event into Europe. The people driving this are European (from Clasma’s London and Brussels office), the advisory board will be predominantly European and many of the speakers will be European.

The Niagara Appliance
Steve Fey, Vice President of Sales, Tridium, Inc. June 2004  The Niagara Appliance program is a solution developed for OEM equipment and service providers.

LonWorld® Exhibition and Conference
Barry Haaser, Executive Director of LonMark® International  June 2004  For the first time, the LonWorld event will be held in Asia – the fastest growing market for the LonWorks platform.

New oBIX Chairman
Toby Considine – Technology Officer, Facility Services, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill  June 2004   I am excited to be involved with group that I think has the potential to change the controls industry, to change what owners and operators can expect from buildings, and to advance several values that I hold very dear.

New LonWorks Solution for the Hospitality Industry
Rami Belson, CEO of Energex Inc. June 2004   We have presented the industry with a remarkable tool which can address every aspect of their operations and help them achieve better guest experience with far greater efficiency.

Status of Open Systems: Niagara Framework
John Petze, President & CEO, Tridium, Inc.  May 2004  A Niagara based system empowers end users to get above the protocol debates and simply specify systems that meet their business needs with the confidence that it can be done cost effectively with standard protocols and can be connected to their enterprise systems.

XML in Building Automation -- Is it REALLY the next BIG thing?
Andy McMillan, President & CEO, Teletrol Systems Inc. May 2004  I believe there are other technologies on the horizon that have as much or more potential to re-shape the BAS industry at a strategic level. Wireless mesh networks and MEMS sensors come to mind.

Autonomous Programmable Intelligent Mobile Robotic Bases and Control Systems
Jeanne Dietsch, CEO, ActivMedia Robotics  May 2004   We're giving automation the ability to move objects in space. Most facilities managers and building automation specialists think in terms of sensing and controls. Very few think of moving anything other than elevators or, possibly, doors.

CTO Sings Praises of BuilConn
Keith Gipson, CEO/CTO, Impact Facility Solutions  May 2004   Even though the emphasis of this year's BuilConn event was not focused on end-use customers visiting vendor's booths, like a typical trade show, my company already is benefiting from the alliances and partnerships that we were able to solidify and establish with companies we may have previously looked at as competitors.

BuilConn 2004 What are the challenges now?
Anto Budiardjo, President of Clasma, Inc., May 2004   If you say that open systems is a given and the use of IT technologies is also a given, the thing for the building systems industry to figure out now are two things: Firstly, manufacturers need to create a new generation of products and services using this technology. Secondly, we as an industry need to try and figure out the new types of applications brought about by this new set of opportunities.

BuilConn 2004 - Update
Anto Budiardjo, President of Clasma, Inc.,  April 2004  If you plan to work in the area of integrated and intelligent buildings, in the area of the convergence of Building and IT, there is only one place to be in the middle of April - BuilConn in Dallas.

The "Interoperable Blues Band"
Leighton Wolffe, Director, Energy Partner Program, WebGen Systems  April 2004  In the spirit of BuilConn, the IBB is all about players in the industry playing together, in this case literally. 

XML Pavilion
Anno Scholten, VP eStructures   April 2004  The XML Pavilion will feature technology demonstrations showing the extensive potential of XML and Web Services in a cross-section of the buildings industry including security, HVAC, gateway, enterprise and IT solution providers of technology.

Connecting enterprise energy management systems
Ron Brown, CTO, Gridlogix, Inc   April 2004  The market is searching for a specialized IT centric Enterprise Application Integration framework designed to turn automation and control systems and their devices into easily accessible data sources for business systems.

Building Automation: Open Systems Today and Tomorrow
Dirk Mahling, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer, WebGen Systems   April 2004  Thus open protocols open the domain of buildings and energy control to the advances already seen in other fields such as computerized medical diagnosis, image stabilization, or automated battlefield management.

Trane and the next 25 years in controls
Jay Althof, Vice President of Controls Product Planning and Support, Trane, Global Controls and Contracting   April 2004  Information technology and the Web is the future of controls platforms. Trane is committed to playing a role that best helps develop the promise of XML-based systems.

Relationship marketing in today's HVAC industry
Gordon Newman, Marketing Coordinator, Greystone Energy Systems Inc.  April 2004  Relationship marketing is developing a close bond with your customer by dealing with them on a personal level. 

Wireless M2M Communications over Cellular Data Networks
Philip Sencer, Senior Vice President, Profile Systems, LLC.  March 2004  We communicate to our controllers located at a customer's site and have the ability to schedule, turn-on, turn-off, monitor and control lighting, HVAC and other critical components. 

Do you think all products will become commodities?
Tracy Markie, President, Engenuity Systems, Inc.  March 2004  We see most of the non-systems products going down the commodity route. These would include end devices such as sensors and actuators as well as network infrastructure devices like routers and gateways.

What is M2M?
Glen Allmendinger, President, Harbor Research, Inc.  March 2004  The upcoming M2M Expo is really the first large scale conference and exhibition for the M2M space. 

Buildy Awards Program FAQ
Tish Smith, Director of Client Services, Clasma Inc.  March 2004  The Buildy Awards are a new initiative to recognize key contributors to the building systems industry, contributors who make the vision of integrated and intelligent buildings a step to reality.

The Niagara Summit
Phil Bomrad,