Articles - November
2010
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Green Buildings and EZ Electricity Enterprising minds are creating better opportunities for buildings to interact with the Smart Grid. John J.
"Jack" Mc Gowan, CEM
Energy Control Inc.
Wireless
Meters The Real Hotspot Jim Sinopoli,
PE, RCCD, LEED AP & Managing Principal Smart
Buildings LLC
Connecting Building Automation to Everything In an ideal world, we will be able to be vendor and
protocol
independent. Everything will talk to everything. Nino Kurtalj, President,
Elma Kurtalj Ltd
The Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PIC) & BACnet
Interoperability Building Blocks (BIBB) Nirosha Munasinghe, Product Development Manager, Open General
BACnet in Public Administration Buildings Lowering Energy Consumption While Maximizing Comfort Salvatore
Cataldi, ESAC
GridWeek A Summary of Discussions Shaping the BAS Industry Anto Budiardjo, Clasma Events
Collaboration
Fuels Smart Grid Progress Major Industry Players Get Behind ADR Alliance Anto Budiardjo, Clasma Events
Social Networking Can
help you find a job in the Building Automation Industry Teny E. Varghese, Building Automation Jobs
Glenborough Takes Energy Efficiency Strategy to the Next Level with the Niagara Framework It’s not always about the ‘money’ one commits into an operation; it’s
how you bring other important stakeholders, such as your tenants and
vendors, into energy conservation. Carlos Santamaria, LEED AP Glenborough’s Director of Engineering
Columns - November
2010
Control System
Upgrades Determine
your best path to a total
system overhaul
Steven R.
Calabrese,
Control
Engineering Corp.
OPC
UA Adoption Update No one is certain where technology trends in BAS will take us in 2011
but one thing is certain: OPC UA will be the protocol of choice in taking data
from the field and making it useful information in the cloud. Manny
Mandrusiak, Vice President
of OPC Marketing, OPC Foundation
Energy Effectiveness
… Getting Beyond Energy Efficiency
Andy McMillan, President and GM Philips Teletrol
Internal
Sharing of Energy Information to Support Smart Grids Every building, and every group of buildings,
must become a microgrid. A microgrid is responsible for managing its energy
use, generation, storage, and market operations.
Toby Considine,
T9
Networked Building Automation System (BAS) It is amazing how little we know about what really goes on in most buildings. Paul Ehrlich, Ira Goldschmidt
& Angela Lewis Building
Intelligence Group
Articles
- October 2010
Are
There Too Many Choices For Wireless Building Systems? Wireless
technologies such as ZigBee, EnOcean, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi,
RFID, Insteon, Bluetooth, etc. are a snapshot Jim Sinopoli,
PE, RCCD, LEED AP & Managing Principal Smart
Buildings LLC
Protocol
Positioning from Field to Cloud Everyone
will be forced to open up all network layers, and we will achieve at
the speed of light full-scale interoperability and manageability. The
enterprises will become as a node in the cloud creating an absolutely
new perception of the organization and society in whole. Nino Kurtalj, President,
Elma Kurtalj Ltd
Integrating
EnOcean and BACnet Enabling
Best of Breed Building
Automation Solutions
The S4 Group, Inc.
The
Embedded BACnet IP Server In today’s network world, the
controller is the server.
David Lamarche,
Director of Communications, CAN2GO™
Energy
Information Management Beyond Savings Projections to
Proof Tim Kensok, Vice President Market Development, AirAdvice
Putting
ENERGY STAR Certification Within Reach of Commercial Buildings
Commercial companies have realized that the ENERGY
STAR label is preferred by their customers because it indicates a lower
cost of operation. Brian Dawson, Chairman and CEO of Calico
Energy
Smart
Demand Control Ventilation Intelligent Ventilation
Measurement, Optimization and New Thinking for Today’s Green
Buildings
Daniel Diehl, Vice
President, Sales and Marketing, Aircuity
Getting
Grid Connected Drive Increased Energy Savings and Earnings with
Contextual Electricity Information, Dashboards and Integrated Demand
Response Rich Quattrini, VP Marketing and Product Management,
EnergyConnect Inc.
Landmark
Multi-Use Building Sets Standards for Sustainability Wireless
technology “greens” 1980s building Harry Sim, CEO Cypress Envirosystems
Back
to School for Energy Efficiency Lessons Schools are
turning out one textbook case after another of energy efficient
buildings. Denis Du Bois, Editor, Energy Priorities
Magazine
Building Automation
Moves Up
Up in the clouds and ever-increasing connectivity
Control Engineering Asia
Columns
- October 2010
Closing the Feedback Loop
What
type of feedback is needed by each
party? Answering this question is a bit more complex. Angela Lewis,
Building Intelligence Group
Load
Shaping
for Net Zero Buildings Load shaping
prioritizes energy use by prioritizing systems, matching demand to
supply within the microgrid.
Toby Considine,
T9
Rapid
software
development leads to future facing success New OPC
Foundation OPC UA .NET Developers’ Course provides hand-on UA
development Manny
Mandrusiak, Vice President
of OPC Marketing, OPC Foundation
Hydronic
Zone
Controls 101 Control
theory as explained through
real-life experience Steven R.
Calabrese,
Control
Engineering Corp.
Past Favorites
October:
David Lamarche,
Director of Communications, CAN2GO™ The Embedded BACnet IP
Server
Jim Sinopoli, PE, LEED
AP, RCDD Managing
Principal, Smart Buildings LLC Too Many Choices For Wireless Building
Systems?
September:
Nino Kurtalj, President,
Elma Kurtalj Ltd
From
the Silo to Open Collaborative Facility Internetworks
Sarah Erdman, Marketing Director,
QA
Graphics Seeing
is Believing
Ken Sinclair Editor/Owner, www.AutomatedBuildings.com Does Owning the
Meters Make You Smarter?
August:
Jim Sinopoli, PE, LEED
AP, RCDD Managing
Principal, Smart Buildings LLC A Window
into Shading and Electrically Switchable Glass
Peter Sharer, Founder,
Agilewaves, Inc
Monitoring-based
Commissioning for Proactive Energy Management
July:
Sarah Erdman, Marketing
Director, QA
Graphics Energy
Dashboards and Energy EDUCATION Dashboard
Michael Colicchio, Canadian
Regional
Development,
Viconics Electronics Inc. Wireless
Communicating Controls
June:
Harry Sim, CEO, Cypress Envirosystems
Kaiser
Permanente Qualifies Old Building for Energy Incentives
Ken Sinclair
AutomatedBuildings.com
Takeaways from ConnectivityWeek 2010
Nirosha Munasinghe, Open
General
The Future of Cloud Connectivity for BAS
May:
Ken Sinclair Editor/Owner, www.AutomatedBuildings.com
Preview
of May 24-27 ConnectivityWeek 2010 Santa Clara
Michael R. Lavelle P.E., Lavelle Energy
LLC & Kimon
Onuma, FAIA,
ONUMA, Inc.
Virtual
Building Energy Management
Nirosha Munasinghe, Open General
What
is a Web Enabled Building Management System? & Data
Integration Levels
April:
Dave Krinkel, Founder EnergyAI What
Secrets Lurk In the 98% of Energy Data that’s Never Looked At?
March:
Ken Sinclair Editor/Owner,
www.AutomatedBuildings.com
The Next Big
Things
February:
Andy Stadheim CEO, Barix Technology U.S.
Building
Automation Considerations
Ken Sinclair
Editor/Owner, www.AutomatedBuildings.com
Twenty
Ten to be a
BAD-ASS Year
January:
Jim Sinopoli,
PE, LEED AP, RCDD Managing
Principal, Smart Buildings LLC Predictions
for Smart Buildings in 2010
Rawlson O’Neil
King, Communications Director,
CABA
Research
Viewpoints
Robert Eckery,
Marcom Manager, EnOcean, Inc. Energy
Harvesting, Wireless and Next Generation Building Energy Management
December:
Jim Sinopoli,
PE, LEED AP, RCDD Managing
Principal, Smart Buildings LLC How
Buildings Will Communicate With The Smart Grid
Harry Sim,
CEO, Cypress
Envirosystems
Retrofitting
Existing Commercial Buildings for the Smart Grid
November:
Andrey A. Golovin,
Executive Director of
associations BIG-RU
(BACnet Interest Group Russia) and KONNEX Russia, Editor in Chief of
the magazine "Building Automation" What is "Smart
City"?
Gina
Elliott, MBA Project Director, Smart
Buildings LLC
Energy
Reporting
Daryl Cowie,
Business Development Manager, Wescon
Technologies The Business
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