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
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Live from Chattanooga, TN — Haystack Connect 2013
May 1, 2013 by 1 Comment
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...]
ControlTalk Now for the Week Ending April 28, 2013
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Haystack Connect 2013 (live) from Chattanooga, TN is this week’s ControlTalk NOW sponsor. Haystack is a networking extravaganza with some of the top minds in the business previewing the future software and hardware solutions.
Smart Thermostats: Score one for Honeywell and one for [Read more...]
Honeywell and Nest: Two Smart Thermostats — Some More of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
April 27, 2013 by 1 Comment
We thought it fair and appropriate that the last two comments (see below) on this blog string, originally posted June 5, 2012, scores one for Honeywell and one for Nest.
We are really getting excited about the thermostat story again, but it’s not only about the thermostat. The goal is to get smart thermostats on the wall as fast as possible and save energy-grief and money. The utilities need the information from as many residential thermostats as possible, as quickly as possible, and the incentives being offered are real motivation. Both Honeywell and Nest, as well as a few others, are doing a great job enabling the process — and making some smart money while they’re at it. Now that the Department of Energy is ready to go door-to-door and give free energy audits, which will (or should) undoubtedly recommend a smart grid-talking thermostat (with rebate coupon), this thermostat race is just heating up!
But who will connect all the smarts dots the soonest? [Read more...]
Mike Marston and Easy IO’s Beast from the East — A Paradigm Game Changer
April 24, 2013 by 1 Comment
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
April 22, 2013 by 2 Comments
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...]
Six Emerging Threats All Security Professionals Should Prepare For
April 19, 2013 by 4 Comments
Never too much information when it comes to the latest emerging IT threats. This important update is provided by IT Business Edge, a great source for the information, analysis, and context that business technology decision makers need to devise strategies and optimize resources.
USING DRM-LIKE TECH TO HIDE VIRUSES
Some music and ebook files are protected by digital rights management (DRM) systems. These files are effectively locked to particular devices so that they can only be played on those devices and can’t be copied and shared.
Malware can use the same technique. Essentially it locks itself to a particular system by encrypting portions of its binary using specific attributes of the infected system to generate a key. [Read more...]
ControlTalk Now for Week Ending April 14, 2013
April 15, 2013 by 1 Comment
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.
April 13, 2013 by 1 Comment
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!
Nest: Back in the News — Are We Still Waiting for Smart Thermostats to Outsmart Us?
April 12, 2013 by 3 Comments
The ControlTrends Community will soon be voting for the 2013 Thermostat of the Year. The Honeywell Prestige IAQ, Viconics, EnTouch, as well as the three other thermostats mentioned in the following article, Nest, Ecobee, and EcoFactor are all well recognized thermostats with an abundance of features and benefits.
I found this article written by Mary Catherine O’Connor posted in the Smart Planet Daily, which is a great source for Smart News and Ideas. Ms. O’Connor delivers a fresh, insightful, and big picture perspective, quite different from the traditional HVAC view, to the discussion of thermostats and the integral role the household thermostat will play in America’s, possibly, the world’s energy future.
By Mary Catherine O’Connor, April 11, 2013, 3:00 AM PDT
Americans are using less energy but are still failing to conserve energy.
That sounds like a contradiction, but it’s not. Because new homes are better insulated and heating and cooling system are more efficient, Americans burned around 10 percent fewer British thermal units to heat and cool their homes in 2009 than they did in 1993, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. But during that same period, the amount of energy consumed for appliances, electronics and lighting grew by around 10 percent. [Read more...]
