BAS/Controls
It’s Time to Start Measuring Our Buildings’ Intelligence
We are constantly evaluating our human intelligence level. One’s IQ, SAT score, grades or education, and accreditations help define this for people. As our buildings become more connected and the microprocessors in our HVAC systems interact with the microprocessors of all the other building systems, it’s time to start objectively evaluating building intelligence. ...
Design Your Mechanical Systems Week Experience to Suit Your Needs
Mechanical Systems Week 2012, a national seminar and product showcase devoted to HVACR, hydronics, and plumbing set to take place Sept. 19-21 in Schaumburg, Ill., offers registration options to fit any budget....
Energy and Power-Meter Integration
Free downloadable Java Archive (JAR) files facilitate the integration of WattNode energy and power meters with Tridium’s JACE controller/server platform for the Niagara Framework software infrastructure...
Gas Monitor
The E3Point gas monitor combines flexible configuration options and multiple communications protocols to monitor and control toxic and combustible gases in commercial buildings. ...
Cloud-Based Environmental Monitoring
The FlashRF Data Central cloud-based facility environmental monitoring system provides customers with a total view of their dispersed FlashLink RF systems through standard internet browsers. ...
Tridium's Niagara Framework Reaches Milestone
Tridium Inc.announced that its flagship software platform, the Niagara Framework, has surpassed 300,000 deployment instances worldwide....
Michaels Stores Rolls out Energy-Management Platform Extensions
Michaels Stores, Inc., the largest arts and crafts retailer in the United States, recently rolled out a series of advanced extensions to its Siemens Site Controls energy-management system (EMS). Since deploying the Siemens system in 2006, Michaels has seen substantial reductions in energy consumption across its building fleet of more than 1,000 stores. The additional savings created by the new advanced-capability deployments are expected to bring total EMS-related savings to more than 30 percent....
Reducing Operating Costs Through Energy Retrofits
How do you develop a comprehensive plan for saving energy without spending a substantial amount of money just to learn what will work for your facility? It is not an easy task, but it can be done. A manufacturer in southern California recently was faced with a similar dilemma as it sought to reduce operating costs. This article will examine the steps the manufacturer took to achieve operational excellence through a carefully orchestrated energy-audit and retrofit process. ...
Wireless Building Controls: Less is More
Trying to pin down the state-of-the-art of an emerging and rapidly developing technology always is difficult, and wireless building-automation system (BAS) controls are no exception. ...
Modular Power Meter
The KW2G Eco-Power meter allows the addition of up to seven expansion units, permitting users to gather data for several circuits at once. ...
Programmable Building Controller
The MACH-ProZone is a fully programmable BACnet building controller with highly scalable inputs and outputs in a very small footprint. ...
Updated Software Supports Building-Performance Feedback
Version 3.0 of Data Manager is capable of gathering real-time data from multiple buildings across multiple locations and supports building-performance feedback via Internet-connected computers, smartphones, and tablet devices. ...
Honeywell Introduces Multitiered Facility Advisory Services
Honeywell has introduced Attune Advisory Services, a suite of professional services that combines cloud-based tools and analytics for building owners and facilities managers with a global network of operations centers and energy and facility experts....
When Good Systems Have Obsolete Controls
Today’s building engineer has plenty of retrofit control options, even in cases in which the budget is tight. Maybe a building has a sound HVAC system but an existing pneumatic control system (these controllers still comprise a huge segment of the building marketplace). To the facility engineer in this building, it must seem as if everyone else is monitoring his or her building with smart devices, while he still is staring at 0-30 psi gauges to see if dampers and valves are opening. What can be done to help this poor soul?...
Building Energy-Management System
The Building Portfolio energy-management system is a full-feature wireless system that offers energy-saving features for building owners and managers. ...
BACnet Energy Meter
The WattNode BACnet meter (MS/TP) is a cost-effective energy- and power-metering solution for building-automation systems requiring the BACnet communications protocol. ...
Mobile Building-Automation-System Application
The Facility Prime native Apple iOS application for the APOGEE building-automation system (BAS) features customized screens to enable fast, convenient, mobile interaction with a multitude of facility conditions. ...
Honeywell, Hawaiian Electric to Test ‘Fast Demand Response’
Honeywell and Hawaiian Electric Co. in Honolulu are teaming up for a two-year pilot program to demonstrate how demand-response technology can help integrate more intermittent renewable energy to the electric grid. During the program, Hawaiian Electric will conduct a test of “fast demand-response” (fast DR) technology, which gives the utility and facilities the tools to reduce demand within 10 minutes of notification of a pending imbalance between supply and demand. ...
Echelon Unifies Multiple Energy-Control Standards
Echelon Corporation has released a suite of tools and products for building owners, specification writers, integrators, and energy-management application developers. The offerings will enable building professionals to integrate the world's leading devices, applications, and building automation standards (LonWorks and BACnet), and thereby create energy-efficient buildings that are “grid-aware” and can respond to emerging grid requirements. ...
The Two Futures of HVAC Controls
Two futures are possible for HVAC controls. One is exciting; the other not so much so. In the exciting scenario, controls rapidly evolve so that in just a few years building controls have extensive self-commissioning, self-tuning, self-diagnostic and correction, and even self-configuring features....
A Call for Truly Creative Building-Automation Systems
When our industry discusses building-control systems, building-control devices, and building-control interfaces, we all imagine what those things should be. But those preconceptions limit our imagination, limit our creativity, and limit our industry. We also keep saying certain things cannot be done. We are creating systems and solutions that are expected, and we’re not being truly creative. ...
Gen Y Guy to Kick Off Mechanical Systems Week 2012
Sponsored by Trane, the Opening Keynote Event for Mechanical Systems WEEK 2012 will feature “Crossing the Generational Divide: Leveraging the Power of Generations for Your Strategic Advantage,” presented by Jason Dorsey, The Gen Y Guy....
Long-Life Wireless Sensors
The WSN-1101 Lifetime Power wirelesss sensor features a pre-installed, long-life, non-replaceable battery that allows the unit to transmit data once per minute for more than 25 years without maintenance....
Long-Life Wireless Sensors
The WSN-1101 Lifetime Power wirelesss sensor features a pre-installed, long-life, non-replaceable battery that allows the unit to transmit data once per minute for more than 25 years without maintenance....
Building Dashboards: Measuring to Manage
Dashboards turn raw facility data into actionable information that’s easy to share with owners, tenants, and building managers ...
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