Editorial Comments by Ken Sinclair          Editor/Owner, AutomatedBuildings.com

Building Connections@ConnectivityWeek

Our April theme plays on "Building" as a verb and a noun. Either way www.ConnectivityWeek.com is a great place for building your connections and networks to folks who are radically changing our world. A place to create new networks and strengthening your existing while rubbing shoulders with the folks that are redefining;  Smart Grid, Wireless, Web Services, Energy Management, Open Standards, etc. This is the place to gain great insight in to how to unleash opportunities and new business from all of this change.

As for reading Building Connections as a noun come and see our session on

Recreating BAS for Energy Management http://www.connectivityweek.com/2010/#track_355

addressing the interoperability of legacy and new control systems to harnessing Internet and cloud computing applications to reduce costs and improve remote management, BAS is much more than a building manager’s control system. This track will review the synergies between the Smart Grid and intelligently controlled buildings, new technologies and applications that improve energy efficiencies, and the challenges that become tomorrow’s business opportunities.

Industry experts from the major BAS player will share their thoughts on how to make successful business out of "The Big Switch". If you do not know what that means please read our review of this new book. The Big Switch from Edison to Google is very good read providing the big picture to allow you to understand how we got to wireless cloud deployment our last month's theme and our best read article The Next Big Things .

If you want to see the words from this article come alive; "This dynamic duo will eliminate complex installations, provide; self set up, connection, and commissioning while self populating the needed information for web deployment."  Please read this month's issue closely and connect with us in Santa Clara.

 An outstanding diversity of articles this month.

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The Next Big Things; "Web & Wireless”

One of the advantages of a life spanning over 4 decades in an industry is to being able to recognize trends that will radically redefine a industry. Please read my article The Next Big Things for insight on these comments.

Although my peers cringe at my loose definition of web deployment which I have chosen to include any services provided by the web automatically or even utilizing manual intervention,  web deployment of all our services is redefining our industry. Because we are now part of the IT industry and our industry is just viewed as a data stream, we are being swept at an unbelievable rate into web ways defined not so much by our industry but by the incredible daily evolution of the web by the IT industry.  Understand we are part of this web revolution and this is the next big thing.  So can my old mind grasp what might be the next big thing after web deployment?   I am betting that rapidly evolving low cost wireless BAS devices that actually work well with open protocols with self discovery, self healing, cell phone like networks closely coupled with web deployment will completely redefine our industry.

Our contributing editors provide this additional insight;

Anto explains; The key foundation of automating building systems such as HVAC and lighting has always been about managing energy in his Energy Users  This will be The Focus of BuilConn at ConnectivityWeek.

Jim explains; The How and Why of Operations Centers in Smart Buildings

Be sure to read all of this month's articles, interviews, new products, and reviews which all speak well to web and wireless.

March Interviews;  Web Based Energy Diagnostic Technology  Tim Kensok AirAdvice, Inc;  Energy Management Web Services  Richard Blackwell, President, AVWorkz;  Trends in Wireless Controls  Amara Rozgus, Consulting-Specifying Engineer, Jim Sinopoli, Smart Buildings, Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com

Be sure to catch our columnist Steve Calabrese and his Free Webinar.

March Columns;  Pocket Tech and a Car Wash  Manny Mandrusiak; Controls Contracting - Operations:  Preconstruction  Steven R. Calabrese; Fundamental Changes Paul Ehrlich & Ira Goldschmidt;  Buildings must get smarter Toby Considine

March Reviews;  Configurations of Today's IAQ Sensors;  Industry You Tubes;  the monthly blizzard of information.

February Favourites  Building Automation Considerations  Twenty Ten to be a BAD-ASS Year  Retrofit Strategies  Cost-Effective Green Building Seminar  AHRExpo 2010 Education Sessions

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.

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It is a great time to be in the news business for our industry. 

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