Two-step distribution: Past. Present. Future. John Donahue shares his 40 plus years of industry experience and insight with ControlTalk NOW.

Our community lost one of its truly great members over the weekend. It is with a heavy heart that we report the passing of Mike Schwan. Mike passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, September 28, 2019.

Our Wireless Skin, when connected to the urban and global airways that collide with the world of mobility data from the smart city and our buildings, must be seamlessly not seemlessly ….smile, providing a friendly open transition with a robust wireless well connected airway to our building backbone of glass.”

Change is inevitable. The rate of change can vary. In my almost forty years in HVAC and Smart Building Controls I have managed and dealt with many different types of change, but never have I seen changes occur so rapidly. How does one manage this frequent and epic changes?

Functional Devices has released a new product to add to our ever-expanding line of EnOcean® Enabled Wireless Devices. As you might have guessed, it has a relay and it is in a box, but wait, there’s more! It also has a 0-10 Vdc output, and it is wireless!

The Fall 2019 issue of Connections Magazine is in the final stages of development and will be published later this month. The Connections Magazine, published biannually, reports the news from the Project Haystack community around the world,
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