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02/28/2012
05:32 PM LynTec
Celebrates 30 Years With a Powerful Back Story & Future
LynTec, the leading provider of
controllable circuit breaker panels celebrates three decades of serving the
A/V/L industry and announces plans for a new product launch just in time for
InfoComm12.
02/28/2012
05:32
PM Digi
and Freescale Collaborate to Launch Cloud-Connected
Microcontrollers Digi International and Freescale Semiconductor Collaborate to Announce
Industry's First Cloud-Connected Microcontrollers with Out-of-Box Cloud
Connectivity
02/28/2012
05:31
PM ISA
CyberU Quality
automation and control technical training you need WHEN and WHERE you want
it!
02/28/2012
05:31
PM Sontay
Supports Tridium's Global Niagara Summit Sontay, the market leader in the manufacture and
distribution of field control devices for building control systems, will be
taking part in the Tridium Niagara Summit (29th April to 1st May, Red Rock
Resort,Las Vegas). This major global event for integrators, consultants and
developers is the key international conference and exhibition for companies
working with Tridium's industry standard NiagaraAX framework for building
control applications.
02/28/2012
05:30
PM 2013
AHR Expo Returns to Site of Its Largest Southwest Event
Coming off the largest Show in
its 83-year history, AHR Expo will return to the site of its largest Southwest
event on January 28-30, 2013, at the Dallas Convention Center.
02/28/2012
05:29
PM Venstar
Names SYLVANIA Lighting Services as National Service Partner for Venstar's
Surveyor Energy Management System SYLVANIA has installed 1,500 Surveyor systems, provides ongoing
lighting services and Surveyor maintenance via a substantial team of service
technicians and fleet vehicles
02/01/2012
01:01 PM Making
the Invisible Visible for a More Comfortable, Safe and Sustainable World - Dave Eidson, Director
of Architecture and Technology, Building Efficiency, Johnson Controls
02/01/2012
01:00
PM Enabling
User Communities to Extend the Reach of Analytics Technology
The newsletter articles show how
a growing community of partners and third party developers are extending the
platform with engineering tools, complimentary applications and service
offerings. - John Petze, C.E.M., Partner, SkyFoundry
02/01/2012
12:59
PM A
Simple, Seamless and Affordable Smart Intelligent Lighting Solution for Public
and Commercial Buildings? According to a rapidly growing number of Public and Commercial
Building owners/developers/managers and users, open standards convergent
building control solutions make business sense, i.e. profits. - Mike
Welch,Control Network Solutions
02/01/2012
12:59
PM Observations
from the Front... Post ASHRAE 2012 - Jack Mc Gowan, CEM Energy Control Inc
02/01/2012
12:58
PM Building
Automation Trends in Large Buildings in 2012
IMS Research has made the
following predictions for 2012 and beyond, to provide some guidance on the key
trends and opportunities in each of these areas. - William Rhodes, Market
Analyst, Building Technologies, Security & Fire,IMS Research
02/01/2012
12:57
PM The
Smart Grid Industry Gave A Stellar Performance in 2011
But Can It Deliver On Its
Promise In 2012 & Beyond - Allan McHale, Director, Memoori
02/01/2012
12:57
PM Chilled
Beam Application & Control Hot and Humid Climates - David Schurk, DES., LEED AP.Director of
Texas Healthcare Accounts, Automated Logic Corporation
02/01/2012
12:56
PM Building
Technologies to Support Energy Efficient and Sustainable Designs
A key educational component of
Cascade Meadow is a web-based 'window' into its infrastructure to illustrate the
benefits of green technologies and to generate thought-provoking ways for
individuals, businesses and organizations to adopt similar sustainable efforts
in their own environments. - Marlee Rosen, Rosen Associates
02/01/2012
12:55
PM Why
You Should Embrace Flash Flash is here to stay and will drive building performance
visualization. - Sarah Erdman, Marketing Director, QA Graphics
02/01/2012
12:55
PM Quality
Management and ISO Certification in the Automated Building Industry - Paul Guarracino, President,
J.M. Electrical Company, Inc.
02/01/2012
12:51
PM AHR
Expo is Back in Town My kind of town, Chicago is... - Steven R. Calabrese, Control Engineering
Corp.
02/01/2012
12:51
PM Getting
Started with Social Media for Business – Part 1
Each of the Social Media
platforms have their distinct advantages and disadvantages but how does a
business know which ones to start with? - Manny Mandrusiak, Managing Creative
Consultant, 4 Bravo Marketing
02/01/2012
12:50
PM The
Path to Smart Energy Smart energy looks to each home, business, and industrial site to take
responsibility for the management of its own energy in the face of an
ever-changing supply. - Toby Considine, TC9 Inc
02/01/2012
12:50
PM Future
of Lighting Control and LED Lighting A number of new solutions coming on the market are
designed around integrated lighting control for LED or solid state lighting. -
Paul Ehrlich, Ira Goldschmidt & Angela LewisBuilding Intelligence
Group
02/01/2012
12:48
PM The
Value of Virtual What do you think "open" means? What do you think "visible" means? - Ken
Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com
02/01/2012
12:48
PM Visualization
Platform Build
visually stunning interfaces and dashboards without writing a single line of
code. - Eugene Mazo, CEO, DGLogik Inc.
02/01/2012
12:47
PM 10
years development in the building automation integration arena
2012 is a special year to The S4
Group Inc. it marks 10 years of innovative product development in the building
automation integration arena. The company was founded with the mission to create
technology that opens up historically proprietary environments, extending their
useful life, and enhancing their functionality through the addition of open
technologies. - Steve Jones, Founder and Managing Partner, The S4 Group
Inc
02/01/2012
12:46
PM Viewing
the AHR Expo Exhibits with Virtual Vision As you walk the floor this year note how all of the
exhibitors are using virtual and of course social media to greatly increase
their impact, while increase your understanding of their products and
services.
02/01/2012
12:45
PM PDFs
of Power Point Presentations from AHR Expo Chicago 2012
I linked the pdf's of the
presentation to the title of each session. We had good interest in the sessions
and requests were made for these presentation to be posted. If you missed the
sessions this is your chance to take a peak at what we were talking
about.
02/01/2012
12:44
PM Open
Connection Communities My overall takeaway from AHR Expo 2012, Chicago.
02/01/2012
12:43
PM Across
My Desk Every
month there is a blizzard of information contained in the emails and newsletters
that cross my desk on their way to AutomatedBuildings.com. Some of this
information is not in the form of any type of content we can publish but I feel
I should share with you these snippets, blog bits, and url links that are about
to fall off my desktop.
02/01/2012
12:42
PM New
Products for February A brief description of some new products for the industry
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