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Episode 303: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings Videocast and PodCast for Week Ending Feb 17, 2019

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Episode 303: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings Videocast and PodCast for week ending Feb 17, 2019 provides summary coverage of the 2019 Siemens Talon Summit held in New Orleans, LA. Siemens is on the move! Project Haystack recognizes DLR Group for their outstanding contributions; Penn Controls celebrates their 100 Year Birthday; Autonomous Vehicle Summit in London; Realcomm Occupant Experience Webinar; BASS Active Shooter Webinar; and EasyIO Global Meeting Early Bird Registration now available.

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WEBINAR: Active Shooter Solutions with Honeywell & Shooter Detection Systems — Thurs, Feb 21, 2019 at 1:00pm EST

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Make every second count in life-threatening situations. Learn how Honeywell and Shooter Detection Systems improve situational awareness and incident communications with integrated security solutions.

Join this webinar where we will examine active shooter events that have happened in schools, workplaces and in public venues, similar themes emerge that impact effective response. For building occupants, a lack of situational awareness results in panic, confusion, and the inability to make lifesaving decisions quickly in those critical first seconds. [Read more…]

PENN Controls Celebrated Their 100 Year Birthday !

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PENN Controls celebrated 100 years the night after the ControlTrends Awards and we were there! The Big Bash took place at the Georgia Aquarium and PENN and Johnson Controls spared no expense in making sure their customers had a big time!

PENN Controls has been making commercial refrigeration controls that have been keeping people and products cool in supermarkets, convenience stores, hotels, and restaurants worldwide. It has been the go-to refrigeration solution for distributors like DMS Controls and Stromquist & Company as well as HVAC service contractors across the globe. PENN has a long history of delivering the freshest ideas in the HVACR industry.

If you like the System 350 as much as we do, be sure to check out the videos because we have a special guest stop by, who was on the original design team for the legendary System 350.  The System 350 was one of the first modular control systems and is still being used today. Always moving forward JCI has upgraded the System 350 to the System 450.

Speaking of new fresh ideas watch our video interviews with the Penn and Johnson Controls leadership team to learn what is next. Here are some of the folks we talk to on this two-part video:

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Project Haystack Awards DLR Group for Contributions to Haystack Community at ControlTrends Awards

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RICHMOND, VIRGINIA (February 12, 2019) — The Project Haystack Organization, a collaborative community addressing the challenge of utilizing semantic modeling and tagging to streamline the interchange of data among different systems, devices, equipment and software applications, today announced that DLR Group was presented the Project Haystack Award for their support of the Project Haystack open-source project and adoption of the methodology as an end user. The award was presented in front of a packed house at the 2018 ControlTrends Awards ceremony held January 13th in Atlanta during AHR Expo 2019.

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with 30 offices around the globe and over 1,200 professionals delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new construction, renovation, and adaptive reuse projects. One of the world’s leading sustainable design firms, DLR Group’s promise is to elevate the human experience through design. This promise inspires sustainable design for a diverse group of public and private sector clients, local communities, and our planet. DLR Group is 100 percent employee-owned and was an early adopter of the Architecture 2030 Challenge, an initial signatory to the AIA 2030 Commitment and the China Accord.

“In the past year we have seen a significant increase in world-wide adoption of the Project Haystack methodology in the building industry, and expanding into smart devices for homes, industrial facilities, factories and agriculture,” said John Petze, Executive Director of the Project Haystack Organization. “We’re pleased to recognize DLR Group’s use of the Haystack methodology of semantic modeling and tagging, implemented through their Building Optimization and High-Performance Design practices.”

DLR Group is utilizing the Project Haystack methodology through smart building design strategies, monitoring-based commissioning, and smart energy management.

DLR Group Principal, Ruairi Barnwell, was present to accept the Project Haystack Award. “With the vast quantities of building operational data available, the use of a semantic, or tag-based, data analytics framework has become an essential tool to leverage insights that help us optimize the ongoing operations of our clients’ buildings,” said Barnwell. “We have embedded the Project Haystack methodology in the core of the building performance data analytics platform that we use to collect, analyze and visualize building performance data. This allows us to create actionable intelligence to optimize energy and indoor environmental quality, lowering energy use and elevating the human experience of the built environment.”

The Project Haystack Organization consists of Founding Member and Board Member companies Conserve It, Intel®, J2 Innovations, Legrand, Lynxspring, Siemens and SkyFoundry, and Associate Member companies Accu-Temp Systems, Altura Associates, BASSG, Bueno Systems, BuildingFit, CABA, Energy Management Association, Intellastar, Intelligent Buildings, IoT Warez, KMC Controls, KNX Association, Kodaro, sensorFact, Tridium, VRT Systems, Wattsense and Yorkland Controls, as well as numerous Project Haystack supporters and contributors like DLR Group.

More information about DLR Group is available at www.dlrgroup.com, at Twitter and at LinkedIn. More information about the Haystack methodology, the Project Haystack Organization and membership is available at: www.project-haystack.org. The Discussion Forums can be found at: www.project-haystack.org/forum/topic.

About Project Haystack

Since its formation in March of 2011, the Project Haystack Organization, a 501(c) non-profit trade association, has been providing the industry with an open-source, collaborative environment to address the challenge of making data self-describing using semantic modeling, also known as data tagging. The work developed by the Project Haystack member companies and community streamlines the process of managing, presenting and analyzing the vast amount of data produced by smart devices and equipment systems. The Haystack methodology can be used with virtually any type of system and device data and is not tied to any vendor or communication protocol. More information about Project Haystack is available at: www.project-haystack.org.

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Contacts:

Robin Bestel
Marketing Manager
Project Haystack
robin@haystackconnect.org
www.project-haystack.orgJohn Petze
Executive Director
Project Haystack
johnp@haystackconnect.org
www.project-haystack.orgMarc Petock
Executive Secretary
Project Haystack
marc.petock@lynxspring.com
www.project-haystack.org

Episode 302: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings Videocast and PodCast for Week Ending Feb 10, 2019

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Episode 302: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings Videocast and PodCast for week ending Feb 10, 2019 takes the future head on — with interviews with two amazing and accomplished experts with widely differing perspectives.  Our first guest is author and Future Technologist, Sudha Jamthe, from Silicon Valley, who explains business model creation along the yellow-bricked-digital-transformational-highway, while our second guest, Total Controls’  Mike Schwan, Central California Regional Manager, delivers an insightful state-of-the-industry assessment that’s grounded securely to the most relevant building automation present, while taking an entertaining summary reflection of the past, and then Mike takes a solid stab at what’s next.  Amazing stuff!  Also, if you haven’t already watched the official 2018 ControlTrends Awards video, you should! Please take this opportunity to do so. Congratulations, once again to all the winners.

ControlTalk NOW first interview is with Future Technologist, Sudha Jamthe. Sudha Jamthe is the CEO of IoTDisruptions.com and a globally recognized Technology Futurist with 20+ year mix of entrepreneurial, academic and operational growth experience from eBay, PayPal, GTE, and Harcourt. She is the author of “2030 The Driverless World: Business Transformation from Autonomous Vehicles” and 3 other IoT books (all available on Amazon), teacher of IoT and Autonomous Vehicles business courses at Stanford Continuing Studies and at DriverlessWorldSchool.com. Sudha enjoys shaping new technology ecosystems and mentoring leaders on digital transformation. She chairs the strategic advisory council of Barcelona Technology School and an Ambassador for FundingBox Impact Connected Cars (H2020) Community. She has an MBA from Boston University.

Our second ControlTalk NOW interview is with Mike Schwan, Total Controls’ Central California Regional Manager, who delivers an insightful state-of-the-industry assessment that’s grounded in over thirty years of hand-on experience that tethers us to the most relevant building automation present, while taking us on a personal and highly  entertaining reflection of the past, and then, perhaps most importantly, Mike takes a solid stab at what’s next in the world of two-step distribution, and the HVAC and building automation industry.

The Official 2018 ControlTrends Awards Highlight Video. The superstars of Smart Building and HVAC controls were at the 2018 ControlTrends Awards in Atlanta. The winners are chosen through a voting process that includes global smart building and HVAC contractors, consulting engineers, building owners, and distributors. This celebration of the best of the best in smart buildings people, products and companies culminated with the announcements of the winners at the fabulous Fox Theater. If you missed the festivities, don’t worry, you can check out the official ControlTrends Awards highlight reel here.

Here are the 2018 ControlTrends Award Winners:

Building Automation VAV Controller of the Year: Honeywell Spyder

Building Automation Plant/Equipment Controller of the Year: LOYTEC LIOB-585 and Optergy P864 Controller

Smart Buildings Analytic Platform of the Year: SkySpark, SkyFoundry

Peripheral Vendor of the Year: ACI

Innovative Wireless Product or Solution of the Year: EasyIO FW-14

Lighting Product or Solution of the Year: Acuity nLight Air

Race to the Small Space Solution of the Year: KMC Commander and Siemens Desigo Control Point

IoT Product or Solution of the Year: Tridium Niagara 4

Smart Building Automation Control System of the Year: Johnson Controls FX

Smart Thermostat or Smart Room Controller of the Year: Johnson GLAS

ControlTrends Impact Person of the Year: Kevin Smith, Tridium and Scott Cochrane, Cochrane Supply and Engineering

Best Technical Support Person of the Year — Small Manufacturer: Pedro Jorge, EasyIO

Best Technical Support Person of the Year — Large Manufacturer: Lou Jones, Honeywell

Best Technical Support Company of the Year — Small Manufacturer: Contemporary Controls

Best Technical Support Company of the Year — Large Manufacturer: Belimo

The Passion, Integrity, and Dedication Award (PID): Steve Guzelimian, Optergy

ControlTrends Master Systems Integrator of the Year: North America: Facility Solutions Group, Austin TX, International: 01 Partner, Poland

Progressive Consulting Engineer of the Year (Demonstrated Industry Leadership in Advancing the Smart Building): Troy Windom, Dewberry Engineers, Raleigh, NC

ControlTrends Woman of the Year: Stefani Szczechowski, Distech Controls

ControlTrends Vendor of Year — Small Vendor: EasyIO

ControlTrends Vendor of the Year — Large Manufacturer: Distech Controls

ControlTrends Executive of the Year — Small Vendor: Mark Fernandes, Functional Devices, Inc.

ControlTrends Executive of the Year — Large Manufacturer: Chad Blackmer, Belimo

2018 Hall of Fame Inductees:

Jim Young, Founder of Realcomm
Newcomb & Boyd, Consulting Engineer
McKenney’s Inc., Contractor
Bengt Stromquist, Founder of the Stromquist Company

2018 Marc Petock Award Recipient: Ken Smyers

2018 Young Guns:

Brent Burrows, ENTEK
Trent Walters, Walters Controls
Chelsea Pittaluga, Engineered Controls Systems, Inc.
Drew Freeman, McKenney’s, Inc.
Michael Donahue, Control Consultants Inc.

The Official 2018 ControlTrends Awards Highlight Video

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The superstars of Smart Building and HVAC controls were at the 2018 ControlTrends Awards in Atlanta. The winners are chosen through a voting process that includes global smart building and HVAC contractors, consulting engineers, building owners, and distributors. This celebration of the best of the best in smart buildings people, products and companies culminated with the announcements of the winners at the fabulous Fox theater. If you missed the festivities, don’t worry, you can check out the official ControlTrends Awards highlight reel here. [Read more…]

Episode 301: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings Videocast and PodCast for Week Ending Feb 3, 2019

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Episode 301: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings Videocast and PodCast for week ending Feb 3, 2019, features interviews with Ken Sinclair, owner and editor of Automated Buildings, who helps to navigate our journey through the perilous “Path of Least Disruption,” and rising entrepreneur and SandStar founder, Alper Üzmezler, CEO of BASSG and Alta Labs. [Read more…]

Ken Sinclair’s Automated Buildings’ February, 2019 Editorial Theme: “The Dawn of Disruption”

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Recently returned from the 2019 AHR EXPO and wholly inspired by peeks into the future and the Dawn of Disruption, Ken Sinclair, owner and editor of Automated Buildings, believes the time has come for us to prepare and build elegant mindful bridges between the throes of disruption, [Read more…]

How the Right Smart Building Controls will Change Facilities Management

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With changes in Smart building controls the world of facilities management will change forever.

These changes include:the adoption of truly open systems. Agreed upon data tagging models. The availability of usable data.  Advances in artificial in intelligence and machine learning

Open Systems

Over the years, we have watched the definition of open systems change from an open protocol to a truly open system. Open in this sense means that the installation, service and procurement of these smart buildings products are not restricted to just one vendor. Therefore, multiple vendors can work on installed systems. Because the system is truly open, the owner has choice. The controls are truly interoperable, as a result, the facility managers have complete control and access to synergies that are only available when all systems in the smart building can communicate easily. This includes data.

Haystack Connect changes the tagging game

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