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07/26/2013
12:45 PM New Course on Commercial Building Energy Audits Offered by ASHRAE in Fall Online Course Series Given
the tremendous growth in emphasis on energy efficiency in existing
buildings, private markets are looking for cost-effective investments
to make in buildings. Energy efficiency represents an excellent
opportunity to provide great returns while helping the environment, and
improving indoor environmental quality.
07/26/2013
12:45 PM Cylon Energy acquire 50 Philips Teletrol BAS Dealers Cylon
Energy Inc. announced today that it has acquired the Building
Automation System Dealer Business of Philips Teletrol Systems Inc.,
from Royal Philips Electronics (AEX: PHI, NYSE: PHG).
07/26/2013
12:44 PM The Big Growth Opportunity for Big Data in Smart Buildings The
market for fault detection based on big-data building analytics will
expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 40 percent
during the next five years, according to a new report entitled "Value
Added Services in Intelligent Buildings" from IMS Research, now part of
IHS (NYSE: IHS).
07/26/2013
12:43 PM Simergy: A Free, Comprehensive Graphical User Interface for Energy Modeling with EnergyPlus The
Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD) of Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory and the Buildings Technology Office of the
Department of Energy announce the launch of Simergy, a free graphical
user interface (GUI) that enables the whole-building energy modeling
engine, EnergyPlus, to be used more easily and effectively.
07/26/2013
12:43 PM QA Graphics Provides Custom Web Development Services QA Graphics is pleased to announce that they are now offering custom web development services.
07/01/2013
08:35 AM The Facility Data Manager When the Silos Come Tumbling Down - Jim Sinopoli, Managing Principal, Smart Buildings, LLC
07/01/2013
08:35 AM BAS Communities Need Bridges, Not Walls Unfortunately,
the perception and misconception was created that Haystack tagging was
created by and for the Tridium community. - Steve Jones, Managing
Partner, The S4 Group, Inc
07/01/2013
08:34 AM A "REvolution" in Integrated Facility Optimization Ezenics
Mobile: The Power of Enterprise-Level Analytics, Work Order Management,
and Building Controls in the Palm of Your Hand - Jason Fuller, Ux
Design, Development Liaison, Ezenics, Inc.
07/01/2013
08:33 AM Post Realcomm/IBCon 2013 Industry Update The
event is encouraging with regard to commercial real estate's acceptance
of Smart, Connected Buildings as a key determinant of property value
and operational excellence. - Jack Mc Gowan, CEM, President, Energy
Control Inc.
07/01/2013
08:33 AM Automation System Degradation and What To Do About It - Todd A. Finnegan, Principal, eSite Systems, LLC
07/01/2013
08:32 AM 2013 IBCon Observations The
message I received, as well as countless others I spoke with, was loud
and clear - cloud-based computing, open architecture, data analytics,
visualization, and mobility will forever be a required participant in
high performance buildings. - Chip Pieper, Environmental Systems, Inc.
(ESI)
07/01/2013
08:31 AM Communicating Thermostats for Building Retrofit Applications Communicating
thermostats create a new potential for old HVAC equipment that would
typically be left as-is for the remainder of its useful life. - Casey
Birmingham, Project Manager, The Falcon Group
07/01/2013
08:30 AM Hurricane Sandy Recovery Accelerated by Energy Management System - Mark Straton, SVP of Marketing, GridPoint
07/01/2013
08:28 AM Maximizing Your Energy Budget and Time via Outsourced Facility Services - Bill Maurer, Senior Vice President, ABM Energy
07/01/2013
08:27 AM Direct Communication with your Building Automation Systems Does your AHU text you an alarm condition? - Jean Femia, Information Architect, Opto 22
07/01/2013
08:27 AM Transactive Energy Markets will Drive Distributed Power Transactive
energy markets hold the promise to achieve economic efficiency and
reliability across the bulk power system and distribution networks. -
Allan McHale, Director, Memoori
07/01/2013
08:26 AM Who's Your Competitor? It
is vital at this point to do real research including out of the normal
box stuff to understand where the world your business serves is going
and what you feel you can deliver. - Mike Welch, Managing Director
& Co-Founder, Control Network Solutions Ltd
07/01/2013
08:25 AM What Every Building Owner Should Know About Open Systems and Smart Buildings - Brian Turner, President, Controlco
07/01/2013
08:24 AM Smart Buildings are Easy to Install & Cost Effective to Implement IP-485
Easily Integrates BACnet and Ethernet Networks over Existing Installed
BMS RS-485 Multi-Drop Twisted Pair Infrastructure - Christin Mims,
Product Marketing Manager, PCN Technology, Inc. (PCN)
07/01/2013
08:17 AM New Trends and Products in HVAC Control (Part Two) Continuation from fall 2012 column - Steven R. Calabrese, Control Engineering Corp.
07/01/2013
08:16 AM Three Websites to Boost Your Brand As
technology advances marketers have to be continually exploring new
options and alternatives for promoting corporate brands and increasing
sales. - Manny Mandrusiak, Managing Creative Consultant, 4 Bravo
Marketing
07/01/2013
08:15 AM The Taxonomies of oBIX Every taxonomy is the outward manifestation of an information model. - Toby Considine, TC9 Inc
07/01/2013
08:15 AM Measuring Building Occupancy The
movement toward a better integrated, inclusive, and accurate occupant
measuring system is something to consider. - Paul Ehrlich, Ira
Goldschmidt & Angela Lewis, Building Intelligence Group
07/01/2013
08:13 AM Data Models Alter Industry Dynamics It
is a brave new world forming fast in the cloud and standard data models
allow the feedstock for the cloud to be automatically reconfigured for
the purpose of the moment. - Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings
07/01/2013
08:13 AM Partnership between Viconics and SCL Elements opens new horizons for control systems - Simon Leblond, Director Strategy & Customer Experience, Viconics Technologies Inc.
07/01/2013
08:12 AM Organizing the Energy Analytics Marketplace Customers
say they were indeed getting dizzy from all the vendor messaging and
pitches and this helps frame the marketplace. - Tom Shircliff & Rob
Murchison, Principals, Intelligent Buildings, LLC
07/01/2013
08:11 AM Project-Haystack Update an update on Project-Haystack since the Haystack Connect conference - John Petze, Principal, SkyFoundry
07/01/2013
08:11 AM ControlTrends, Realcomm IBCON 2013, and ControlTalk NOW It
was a great professional experience and we were able to capture a lot
of the excitement, participation, as well as interview several key
members of the industry. - Ken Smyers, Co-Founder, ControlTrends Awards
07/01/2013
08:10 AM Xperience Efficiency A
global event series taking place live in cities around the world, and
online through a virtual event, bringing together business, government,
and society to share knowledge about how to solve critical energy and
sustainability challenges. - Brett Wheless, Alexis Grenon, Melissa
O'Mara, Schneider Electric
07/01/2013
08:09 AM Accelerate the Smart Grid Our
company mission is to accelerate the smart grid by providing the tools
to ensure and accelerate the interoperability aspects of standardized
technologies like OpenADR. - Jim Zuber, Chief Test Architect,
QualityLogic
07/01/2013
08:08 AM Cloud-Hosted Software as a Service Tools
to view automated diagnostics, trends in avoidable operating costs,
data visualization, rule-creation and saving, asset inventory, document
management, and utility allocations. - Nicholas Gayeski, partner and
co-founder of KGS Buildings
07/01/2013
08:07 AM 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.
07/01/2013
08:06 AM Whizz Dumb 4 the Kids This
offering would be best described by my friend Jack McGowan as a brain
fart, my defintion is an explosion of information from a gaseous source
that no one asked for or wants, that leaves an unpleasant odor, but
still somehow I feel compelled to share.
07/01/2013
08:05 AM New Products for July A brief description of some new products for the industry.