Easy IO and DG Logik are the sponsors for this week’s ControlTalk NOW. CTA Awards Committee thanks these two Platinum Sponsors for their continued support.
Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., a member of the OpenADR Alliance, is issuing a Request for Information (RFI) to solicit product information from manufactures and technology providers for equipment and services. Hawaiian Electric is pursuing a Demand Response operational strategy [Read more...]
ControlTalk NOW for Week Ending May 12, 2013
Live from Chattanooga, TN — Haystack Connect 2013
The Haystack Connect 2013 Day One’s General Session opened with two dynamic Keynote Speakers: DOE’s George Hernandez’s: Sensors and Controls — How Smart is Smart Enough, followed by eRupublic’s Marina Leight, GOVERNING’S Associate Publisher for Infrastructure’s presentation: There’s Something Happening Here: Creating Great Places to Live for the People Who Live There.
Hosted by the top experts and solution providers in their respective fields, the First Day Sessions focused on: Data Modeling, Light Control Technologies, Data Visualization, [Read more...]
Mike Marston and Easy IO’s Beast from the East — A Paradigm Game Changer
ControlTrends Awards thanks Easy IO for their Platinum Sponsorship for the 2013 CTA Awards Show to be held at the BB King Blues Café in NYC, January 21, 2014. The EasyIO 30P-SF was the 2012 Building Automation Controller of the Year. Knowing Mike Marston’s passion for success and EasyIO’s commitment to excellence, the ControlTrends Community will see much more of EasyIO in this year’s competitions.
Excerpt from Mike Marston’s ControlTrends 2012 interview: [Read more...]
ControlTalk Now for the Week Ending April 21, 2013
CTA Awards Steering Committee is the sponsor for this week’s ControlTalk NOW. The extraordinary BB King Blues Club will be the site of the 2013 ControlTrends Awards. Located in NYC’s Time Square, this famous venue promises to enhance the excitement and entertainment of the CTA’s.
Connexx Energy: Get Your Energy Products into the Market with Connexx Energy Software and Control Systems. For all the ControlTrends Community members attending the Haystack Connect 2013, in Chattanooga, TN at the end of this month, make sure you visit the Lynxspring booth and learn more about Connexx. Connecting enterprise energy software and energy control systems has many [Read more...]
ControlTalk Now for Week Ending April 14, 2013
CTA Awards Steering Committee is the sponsor for this week’s ControlTalk NOW. The extraordinary BB King Blues Club will be the site of the 2013 ControlTrends Awards. Located in NYC’s Time Square, this famous venue promises to enhance the excitement and entertainment of the CTA’s.

Johnson Controls
Lynxspring Live! with Anno Scholten, President of Connexx Energy, Inc.
Demand Response and Open ADR presentation with Anno Scholten, President of Connex Energy, Inc. and Bruce Stimpson, VP/CIO at Lynxspring. Two industry experts discuss the energy business. Not to be confused with energy efficiency, Demand Response is a simple concept where a utility or Independent System Operator (ISO) pays an end-customer not to use energy at a peak time. 95% of Automatic Demand Response is still done manually!
J2 Innovations FIN Builder: The Easy Way to Create a Central Plant Graphic
J2 Innovations FIN Builder Creates Fantastic User Experiences, Promotes Company Standards, Is Simple to Use, Saves Time and Money, and Visualizes Any Data Source. Within FIN Builder there is a special feature called central plant builder, this revolutionizes the way you build central plant graphics.
Traditionally 3D plant and piping graphics were only possible [Read more...]
ControlTalk Now for the Week Ending April 7, 2013
This episode of ControlTalk NOW is sponsored by DGLogik, the global leader in Visual Analytics. Visualize the Internet of Things with Drag and Drop Programming using DGLogik’s Affordable DGBox. Now YOU can Build Visually Stunning Applications and Dashboards without Code.
ControlTalk Rewind: Interview with Belimo’s Gary Weber, a proven distribution channel wizard. Also, review the Belimo ZIP Economizer and the 2012 CTA Commercial Product of the Year, the Belimo Energy Valve, as well as the MIT study on the energy savings.
Haystack Connect 2013: Connecting Community and Technology. This meeting is almost sold out. The automation control genies are out of the bottle and meeting in Tennessee. [Read more...]
Data Visualization: Overcome the Five Biggest Challenges of Big Data!
This excerpt from SAS Visual Analytics explains in great detail how Data Visualization is becoming an increasingly important component of analytics in the age of big data:
“Big data is set to offer companies tremendous insight. But with terabytes and petabytes of data pouring in to organizations today, traditional architectures and infrastructures are not up to the challenge. IT teams are burdened with ever-growing requests for data, ad hoc analyses and one-off reports. Decision makers become frustrated because it takes hours or days to get answers to questions, if at all. More users are expecting self-service access to information in a form they can easily understand and share with others. [Read more...]
New Products From AIC Wireless Shown at the 2012 Niagara Summit
I caught up with our friend Bryan Pike from AIC Wireless at the 2012 Niagara Summit and was impressed with their new line of wireless controllers.
You can also check out Bryan’s interview on Stromquist Radio by clicking here. Ok Controltrends Community [Read more...]


