This week’s ControlTalk NOW wraps up its coverage of JCI’s Business Conference; Sean Johnson interviews ACI’s Brian Statz in the Winners Circle; Updates on the upcoming 2015 Project Haystack and OpenADR conferences; Ken Sinclair’s April editorial: and more DDC Training from Rob Allen. ControlTrends wishes everyone a successful start to the Spring Season! We hope you have great things on the horizon and we thank all the HVAC and Building Automation professionals that make up the ControlTrends Community. ControlTalk NOW will return next next with a full Smart Building Podcast/Videocast.
Project Haystack Conference — May 18-20, 2015 Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs, CO. Today’s automation systems, equipment, metering systems, smart devices and IoT applications produce tremendous amounts of data. This data can be very hard to organize and use across different applications because it is stored in many different formats; has inconsistent naming conventions and very limited data descriptors. In essence it lacks information to describe the meaning of the data.
Ken Sinclair’s Automated Buildings April 2015 Theme: Attracting Self-Learning Assets opens with an earnest editorial plea to rally our industry’s focus and resources to better address the serious challenge of getting enough young people interested and up-to-speed within our industry by availing autodidactic (self-directed learning) tools and applying Peter Thiel’s principle of “learning before university.”In Ken’s own words: “Please join me on my crusade to help our industry attract more self-learning assets to build our industry stronger and younger.”
ControlTrends Community Welcomes Axel Bengt Stromquist! The ControlTrends Community extends its heartfelt congratulations and well-wishes to Eric and Anna, proud parents of Axel Bengt Stromquist, the newest (7 pounds, 13 ounces) member of the Stromquist family! Awesome, awesome, awesome!
Introduction to DDC Controls Part 2. Don’t let the Introduction part of this training class throw you, this training offers a little something for everyone. In part 2, Rob Allen continues exploring the different components and concepts that comprise the modern day Building Automation Controls System. Rob’s next DDC Controls program will take a deeper dive into the controllers and other components that make up the world of building automation.
In the Winners Circle with ACI’s Brian Statz. Check out Brian Statz in the Winners Circle at the 2014 ControlTrends Awards. ACI won the 2014 ControlTrends Awards Best Technical Support Company of the Year Small Manufacturer. Visit ACI’s website to see all the great products they make.
Johnson Controls Business Conference Update: The Johnson Controls Packaged VAV Solution. Looking for an easy way to package your VAV controllers to make installation fast and easy? Our man in the field, Rob Allen, found what you are looking for at the 2015 Johnson Controls Business Conference. Rob catches up with Johnson Control’s Scott Fallon to explain.
New Product Release: The Johnson Controls A421. Johnson Controls announces a cool new product the Johnson Controls A421 at the 2015 Johnson Controls Business Conference. Look for the A421. the newest electronic temperature controller featuring adjustable back light display scheduled to hit the street this June or July.
FieldServer Helps Levi’s Stadium Meet Environmental Expectations and Achieve LEED Gold Certification. Recently, San Francisco’s Levi’s Stadium hosted a record-breaking 76,976 people for the World Wrestling Entertainment’s Wrestlemania 31 event. Sierra Monitor Corporation took great pride knowing that many of Levi’s Stadium’s enormous, yet intricate water systems were integrated to the BAS using their FieldServer protocol gateways (case study follows).
