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Update of January 2001 "State-of-the-Art Capabilities in Building Automation" AHR Expo Session

Special AHR Show Preview for Automation Exhibitors to show featured products and provide news releases.

You are your Virtual Image and it is inevitable that your Virtual Image and your real identity will become one.  If the last update of your web site was December 1998 you are now virtually dead. As the hewers of the new virtual world lead us into a "Java Jungle" or choose to "Flash Us", remember that your clients are simply looking for Content, Consistency, and Continuous access to the virtual you.  My November column in  Engineered Systems magazine provides insights on how we must stay plugged into being virtual.

Our contributing editors have been very busy each providing an excellent article for this month's issue.
Hartman  Designing Greener Buildings,  Mc Gowan  Control Synthesis  
Damiano  The Advantage of Direct Measurement for Ventilation

AutomatedBuildings.com's presentation "The Only Thing Constant is Change" at Andover's WW Meeting 2000 (Marco Island) expanded on concepts from our Articles and Columns.  Focus was on The Net Effect, forging Velcro Relationships and Cloud Control.  We were not able to tell the Andover folks anything about ecom as over 40% of their orders are processed this way. Lots of new web based products were presented plus a lot of well founded excitement about their new merger with a leader in digital video technology Integral Technologies. 

Please welcome our newest advertiser Building Automation Products, Inc. (BAPI) specializes as a manufacturer of sensors for the commercial heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC/R) industry.

In an effort to bring our virtual images to you faster through reduced load time we have divided The Automator home page in two. Editorial/Articles/Reviews are now on one page and Headlines, News Briefs, plus New Products are on another. 

Are you having trouble keeping up with the evolving Network & Internet Standards?  We have created a new section that has linkage to over 25 communication standards. Our Summary of New Industry Links allows you to quickly view who is new and happening. On Line Training and Information Resources is just the start of what I feel will grow to a useful part of our site providing access to training for the industry. Scheduled Industry Courses has also been added.

Our January 2001 AHR Show issue theme will be "State-of-the-Art Capabilities in Building Automation".  Please help me determine what this might mean. Share your thoughts with our readership and session attendees on this subject.

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. 

The December and January Building Automation columns in Engineered Systems will provide you more information on the "State-of-the-Art Capabilities in Building Automation"  Sessions at AHR Expo Atlanta, Jan 2001.

 We will be running a special AHR Show News Release Section in both our December 2000 and January 2001 issues. This presents an excellent opportunity to preview your products and concepts so our readers can visit your booth with some insight. If you are not able to be at the show this also offers a opportunity to reach that market virtually.

Check out the articles by our Contributing Editors Thomas Hartman, John J "Jack" Mc Gowan, Leonard A. Damiano and Me. 

Be sure to check out this month's articles, new products and November's news releases.  Our Reader Profile outlines who reads AutomatedBuildings.com. 

Previous Favorites is where we add the article most viewed in the previous issues.

September/October issue favorite was Jack McGowan, Hydroscope Inc, USA
DDC Networks:...is the question really: BACnet™ or LonWorks™?  
- July/August issue favorite was Tom Hartman, The Hartman Company
The "COMFORT INDUSTRY" a 21st Century Opportunity
- May/June issue favorite was Earl Gray, Control Contractors, Inc
Achieving Control System Independence - Controls Computers and Standards  
- March/April issue favorite was John Petze, Andover Controls Corporation
The Benefits of Ethernet to Building Automation 
- January/February issue favorite was Tom Hartman's
HVAC Control: An Essay on Change 
- November/December issue favorite was
Are Automated Buildings Converging or Colliding with the Internet?
- September/October issue favorite was Notifact Systems'
Combining Wireless Technology and Internet -- Seamlessly
- July/August issue favorite was Tom Hartman's great article prepared for our official launch.
Network Control: A New Paradigm For HVAC

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November's Articles

• Designing Greener Buildings ".....the target audience for greener design should start with the building development and property management community."  Tom Hartman, The Hartman Company

• Control Synthesis  "There have been number of efforts aimed at creating standard bus-level protocols for automation systems. This only addresses part of the problem of creating truly interoperable systems. Our approach is to go one level higher and create a standard software framework that supports LON, BACnet and legacy systems in an open framework that is full Internet enabled" says John Petze, VP of Business Development at Tridium. John J. "Jack" Mc Gowan, CEM

• The Advantage of Direct Measurement for Ventilation Code Compliance with Energy Optimization  Building energy usage can be limited while still complying with the new ventilation codes and standards. Engineers have found many creative ways that to satisfy these superficially conflicting objectives.  Len Damiano, EBTRON, Inc.
• Advanced Metering Keeps Duke University Electrical Services Going Strong  “As we started to see results, we added more meters to the system and have about 70 installed now. In time, we plan to have advanced metering for everything on the mains because we are moving towards controlled consumption for the whole campus,” ...... Susan Connell, Jennings & Associates

• Patient Locating System  "Intended to be a tool for emergency and acute situations, this system proved to be a useful and efficient tool even in the ordinary everyday situation where you need to provide any kind of service to a patient."  Ms. M. J. Breedveld, Manager of Cardiologic Department

• Achieve Real Choice with Open Systems  Technology and innovation from suppliers continues to reveal new control possibilities with open systems. Phil Longhurst, Sontay Open Systems

• The CERN and the Birth of the Internet  Case Study The result of the work at the CERN was the development of HTML: HyperText Mark-up Language. HTML was developed as a universal language to enable computers to communicate with each other. Thereafter at the CERN, the first Web browsers and Web servers would also emerge.  Valerie Harding,  eMation.

• Stoney Creek High School, Rochester Hills, Michigan - Case Study The Facility Office at Rochester Schools wanted an energy efficient system that was flexible for the staff to use in monitoring, troubleshooting problems and had the ability to control costs. Melinda Bartee, Alerton Technologies, Inc.

• Modernization at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport Case Study  More than 200,000 passengers and over 6,000 tons of baggage and freight pass through Roissy Airport each and every day. Valerie Harding, eMation

• Cloud Control  Looking for new opportunities?  “Stick your head in the clouds.” Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com

• The Velcro Relationship  Building Automation New Ways of Thinking - The glue that binds us is dissolving! Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com

• Creating and Maintaining Your Virtual Image  Send the message to your management; Become closer involved in the care and feeding of the corporate virtual image. Ken Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com

November's Product, Software and Web Site Reviews

• ETI (Extend The Internet) Alliance  What’s required is a broad industry consensus that drives the creation of a standard for device networking and that is what the Extend the Internet (ETI) Alliance™ is all about.

• Are You a Wireless Want To Be?  Zeus platforms enable OEMs and Systems Integrators to implement reliable, secure, long-range, and low-cost wireless data networks for commercial and industrial applications.

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