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Honeywell’s Steve Hoffman is really excited about the new Spyder 5 Series Controllers and Honeywell’s CIPer Controllers

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Steve Hoffman, Honeywell Consultant Engineer/End User Account Sales Specialist, Shares his Passion and Expertise!

Many of our  ControlTrends Community will remember Steve’s enthusiasm from his review of Honeywell’s new CIPer Controllers from the Honeywell Momentum in Orlando, FL. Steve’s role is to get out in front of Honeywell’s new technology and elucidate the engineering community and large end-users, and that brought him to West Virginia and Pittsburgh, PA.

Steve is a consummate professional, and we congratulate him on a job well done.  Steve was is very excited about the new series of Honeywell’s  Spyder 5 series. See below for a sneak preview, and you’ll see why!

CEO Richard Newberry at 2019 Realcomm|IBcon, KMC Controls are Open, Scalable, and Secure. Early Collaboration with Intel and Dell Pays Off!

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KMC Controls is a Sensor to Server Solution!

Great interview with KMC Controls‘ CEO, Richard Newberry, from ground zero at the 2019 Realcomm|IBcon Conference. KMC Controls is primed for the accelerated adoption of IT-Based Buildings Control Systems. With Open, Scalable, and Secure controllers and BAS options, KMC offers a ready solution for every type of building space.

KMC is your one-stop turnkey solution for building control. We specialize in open, secure and scalable building automations, teaming up with leading technology providers to create innovative products that help customers increase operating efficiency, optimize energy usage, maximize comfort, and improve safety. 

Habib Modabber, Director Business Development, at Realcomm|IBcon 2019, Explains Bosch Building Technologies’ Digital Twin Concept

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Bosch, working with Microsoft Azure, deploys their Digital Twin concept that connects all siloed subsystems of a building into a single user interface that creates the ultimate user experience. Working through Climatec, Bosch’s buildings solutions integrator for  the U.S., Bosch Building Technologies has exciting options for any commercial space.

Climatec is a leader in the application of advanced building technologies, delivering workplace comfort and energy efficiency.

We are the Integrator Business of Bosch Sicherheitssysteme GmbH. As your reliable partner, we implement connected and integrated solutions to increase safety, comfort and efficiency of your buildings. Your business and buildings benefit from comprehensive expertise, global experience and state-of-the-art technologies – all from one single source and close to you.

US-CERT Cyber Security Update: ACSC Releases Updated Essential Eight Maturity Model

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We at ControlTrends know that providing your organization with adequate measures against Cyber Threats and Attacks can be a difficult program to get started and even more difficult to sustain.  The National Cyber Awareness System, NIST Cyber Security Framework, and US-CERT are  great sources of free information that will not only get you started, but help you maintain a well-managed program.

National Cyber Awareness System:

ACSC Releases Updated Essential Eight Maturity Model
07/05/2019 05:16 PM EDT

Original release date: July 5, 2019

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has released updates to its Essential Eight Maturity Model. The model assists organizations in determining the maturity of their implementation of the Essential Eight—ACSC’s list of the top mitigation strategies to help organizations protect their systems against adversary threats. The model identifies three levels of maturity for each mitigation strategy.
 
ACSC is the government authority for providing protective security advice to the private sector and state and territory governments across Australia’s national infrastructure.

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CEO, Ron Victor, at 2019 Realcomm|IBcon, explains IoTium’s OT Access Solution for Secure Remote Access — OT Professionals Listen Up!

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IoTium's OT Access is your Remote Access Solution!

Operations Technology (OT) teams need to provide employees, trusted third parties, and technicians secure remote access to on-site systems for OT installations, monitoring, and  maintenance. Click here for more!

WHY OT-ACESS?

Provision, authenticate, manage, and audit secure remote access for third-party vendors and technicians to all your assets across the globe through a single pane of glass using ioTium’s OT-Access. OT-Access is a remote access management infrastructure offered as-a-service that puts you in control to enable scalable agent-less secure third-party remote access to your mission-critical assets. This enables a uniform methodology for you to manage and monitor which technicians from which vendors are accessing which subsystems and touching which applications across all your assets globally in verticals including Building Automation, Oil & Gas, Power and Utilities, Manufacturing, Healthcare, and Smart Cities.

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Uniform Global Secure Access

Streamlined secure third-party remote access to all your assets globally.

Plug & Go

Simply plug in the ioTium iNode and leave all the heavy lifting to ioTium’s OT-Net infrastructure. Use OT-Net to provision, authenticate, manage, and audit secure third-party remote access in minutes.

Agentless

Requires no new software download or install by vendors and technicians to securely connect to industrial subsystems and assets across the globe. 

Monitoring and Audit

Continuous centralized monitoring and audit of access, with reports on who accessed the network and when.

Access Management

Ease of access management through centralized enforcement to grant or revoke technician/vendor access to assets.

Secure

Shields vulnerable devices from exposure to public internet by enabling secure remote access to vendors while the devices continue to remain in private networks.

 

Lots of New Things Happening at Lynxspring! New President, New Products, New Solutions! Check it Out!

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New President and CFO Melissa Dziurawiec is excited about Lynxspring's Future!

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At the 2019 Realcomm|IBcon ControlTrends had the opportunity to meet up with Terry Swope, CEO and Founder and Melissa Dziurawiec, President and CFO, who tell us about some of the new things happening at Lynxspring.  The new 514 Controller brings more Niagara to the edge, where you can also bring your own software!

EasyIO’s 2019 World Conference Wrap Up Video, The Director’s Cut!

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Congratulations once again to EasyIO for the highly successful and memorable World Conference Program held in Amsterdam, NE.  Johan Schakenraad and Mike Marston and the entire team at EasyIO delivered a marvelous mixture of product and project showcasing, a road map filled with technology and innovation — along with an incredible round of networking and entertainment.

And what could capture the true essence of the event better than the Director’s  cut wrap-up video. Congratulations to Bo van den Bosch, Marketing Manager, EasyIO, Europe, and Koen Van der Ligt of Label4 Visuals for a presentation well done.

Belimo Update on New Ball Valves, New Download Center, and Efficiency through Training at Belimo University

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New Technologically Advanced Ball Valve Assemblies

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Belimo Americas releases new ball valve assemblies with fail-safe and non-fail-safe actuators (PKR and PR series). These new assemblies offer energy efficiency, easy installation, application flexibility, longevity, and reliability for aggressive applications. The modulating, Multi-Function Technology (MFT) actuator models can be field customized to match the design requirements. When the application requires a particular control, feedback signal, or running time (30-120 sec), MFT is the answer. The assemblies offer:
  • Near Field Communication (NFC) for fast programming, commissioning, and troubleshooting
  • BACnet communication for advanced BMS control sequences
  • Energy savings with less power consumption than currently available solutions
  • Zero leakage rating that improves system performance with self-adjusting end stop design
  • Application flexibility with universal power supply input from 24 to 240 VAC
“By adding PKR and PR actuator options to our industrial ball valve product line, we are able to provide additional flexibility and enhanced performance which has not been available in the industrial ball valve marketplace,” states Russ Brown, Belimo Product Manager for Ball Valves.
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Belimo University offers training opportunities for you to learn more about HVAC fundamentals and Belimo products. Our training programs are available on-site or online. Belimo University also provides a variety of 30 minute webinars which are recorded and available on our YouTube channel. A sampling is available on our website. To receive notifications of upcoming webinars – sign up here.

 

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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Job Fair Set for July 11, 2019

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All EERE job listings are posted on USAJobs. Please check USAJobs periodically for new postings and updates. Learn more about the federal positions that are available at DOE.

EERE works to promote affordable and reliable energy to enhance America’s economic growth and energy security. EERE addresses key research and development needs in the energy efficiency, renewable power, and sustainable transportation sectors. Hiring managers will conduct on-site interviews for the following positions:

U.S. Citizenship is required.

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J2 Innovations Announces the Launch of FIN 5

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J2 Innovations is excited to announce the launch of FIN 5, for release this summer – the most innovative and advanced software platform for building automation and IoT Applications. With the Launch of FIN 5, the FIN Framework is now more Open, Fast, Robust, and Extensible

Software for building automation has a lot to offer building owners, facility managers, system integrators and users. From its inception, J2 Innovations has sought to simplify the software used to manage building automation systems and provide the most open, flexible, and user-friendly software on the market.

The first iteration of this was FIN Builder, a product that offered simplified and enhanced visualization graphics for 3rd party automation systems. FIN Builder then evolved into the FIN Framework; an all new approach to an open framework that included a full application suite for building automation and IoT. The FIN Framework technology is today sold globally to OEM partners, and in the North American market also sold through distributors as the brand, FIN Stack.

“Since the very beginning of J2 Innovations, we have set out to help evolve the industry by creating technology that covers the same bandwidth of functionality as traditional automation systems but is much simpler to engineer and operate, and is fully IoT compatible.” – Jason Briggs, CEO, J2 Innovations

Now, J2 Innovations is launching the latest incarnation of FIN Framework; FIN 5, the most innovative and advanced software platform for building automation and IoT applications. FIN is a software suite which provides monitoring, control, scheduling, alarming, visualization, integration, and analytics capabilities designed for OEM partners to customize and incorporate into their products or systems. FIN Framework is already used by a variety of system manufacturers involved in BAS, HVAC, lighting, and shading control in buildings.

The FIN 5 release contains many new features and additional benefits, including an all new database, and system configuration UI, to enable faster engineering.  A new template creation wizard also makes integrating controllers faster and easier, further reducing configuration time for systems integrators and OEMs. Numerous changes have been made to enhance product robustness. Lastly, J2 Innovations has added additional open APIs to help OEMs and developers further extend the framework, and has improved the connector framework to make it even more open for third party system and device integration.

Following J2 Innovations acquisition by Siemens last May, there is now a stronger emphasis on ensuring the FIN Framework follows latest standards in cyber security; security by design, regular penetration testing and fast update cycles are all key elements in making FIN most cyber-secure.

“Many of the quality assurance processes Siemens incorporates in their design and development are now fundamentally part of J2 Innovations’ new quality culture. I believe we’ve been able to strike a good balance between innovative and robust products.” – Alexander Rohweder, COO, J2 Innovations

FIN’s architecture continues to be the only platform for building automation and IoT that is fully based on the use of semantic tagging. FIN natively supports the Project Haystackopen standard for defining and communicating building related data across multiple instances.

In addition to FIN 5, J2 Innovations is also announcing FIN Cloud, which will be released in the near future. FIN Cloud adds to FIN Framework support for secure remote connection via the AWS (Amazon Web Services) cloud, greatly simplifying remote connectivity for multi-site building operators. FIN Cloud provides OEM partners with powerful support for SaaS architectures, using the Haystack open standard protocol over MQTT for the Edge to Cloud connectivity. FIN Cloud simplifies remote site management by use of fully authenticated certificate based security, with the connection to the cloud “pushed” from the site to avoid the complexity and difficulty working with IT departments.  

The FIN Framework is now more open, fast, robust, and extensible than ever before.

For more information about FIN 5 or FIN Cloud, visit j2inn.com or contactsales@j2inn.com

 

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