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This is What a Smart, Connected Building Looks Like in 2019

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Watch as Ken and I take you on a video tour of one of the Smartest Buildings we have seen!

*[WASHINGTON, June 11, 2019]*– Distech Controls, an innovation leader connecting people with intelligent building solutions, and Smart Building Technologies, LLC (SmartBT), today presented the JLL Smart Building team with the “Unified Project of the Year” award for its work transforming District Center in Washington, D.C. to a connected building that elevates the occupant experience. Given every two years by Distech Controls, the award singles out the commercial building project that best leverages connected lighting technology and intelligent building solutions.

Ken and I were at the Event on June 11. It was powerful to see what can happen when like minded smart building controls professionals come together with a common purpose. JJL, Distech , SmartBT and others created a building that integrates many diverse systems. They optimized energy and operational expenses. And at the same time created a tenet experienced  that exceeded expectations. This is not an easy feat.

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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!

Two Products Every Smart Building Control Pro Should Know

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Do you have conflicts with IT over your smart building controls being on their network? What do you do when your BACnet controllers are not communicating and you don’t know why?
 
No worries, Monica and Grace, who are with Optigo Networks, have two great solutions. We caught up with Monica McMahen and Grace Young at the 2019 IBcon Smart Buildings Conference. They showed us two products every smart building control pro should know.
 
If you are having problems with IT and their network, create your own!
 
With Optigo’s, Optigo Connect this is easy and affordable. The Optigo Connect family of
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Breaking News: Kele, Inc. Completes Acquisition of Temperature Control Systems, Inc

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*NEWS RELEASE*

July 8, 2019

CONTACT:

*John Tingle *

john.tingle@kele.com

*901-937-4963 *

Kele, Inc. Completes Acquisition of Temperature Control Systems, Inc.

Acquisition is Kele’s third since 2017 and strengthens service to south-central U.S.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. and DALLAS – Kele, Inc. today announced the acquisition of Temperature Control Systems, Inc. The acquisition expands Kele’s footprint and enhances its ability to serve customers in the south-central United States. Temperature Control Systems, which is headquartered in Dallas with six locations across Texas and Oklahoma, will increase its offering with a broader product line, value-added services, and faster delivery options.

Kele President and CEO Richard Campbell said customers from both companies will realize benefits from the acquisition. [Read more…]

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.

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.

Product Highlights

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.

 

The Data Driven Approach to  Making Money in HVAC and Smart Building Controls.

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The data driven approach to making Money, or more Money in HVAC and Smart Building Controls.

 
The ever informative Ron Zimmer is at it again. He gives us his unique perspectives, based on his years in the Industry and new research data from CABA.
 
CABA – the Continental Automated Buildings Association is the go to source for data driven competitive intelligence. They have the world’s largest research library, and help influence Industry trends.
 
We caught up with Ron at IBcon 2019. Ron shares his thoughts on the IBcon conference and how it relates to the research data from CABA.
 
Ron makes a very generous offer to our ControlTrends Community, if you want to make more money then watch this video and reach out to Ron.
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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

 

Ken Sinclair’s Automated Buildings’ July, 2019 Editorial Theme “Recalibrate for 2020 Vision!” — Prepare NOW for the Next Decade!

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Ken Sinclair: "We need to recalibrate while preparing for the next decade 2020, when we said the world would change, it will but we need to make it happen now."

Recently returned from the 2019 Realcomm|IBcon, Ken Sinclair stresses that the “20-20” of our industry vision — could use some serious recalibration as the year 2020, and the next decade approach. Are the next Dot.com days upon us? Read more!

More great July Articles:

Buildings in the Age of the Climate Emergency,Brad White, SES Consulting Inc. Editor

Data Diving,Scott Cochrane, Cochrane Supply & Eng Editor

What’s in a name?Brian Turner, Buildings IOT

Communities of Practice Connected by Niagara,Michael Westerfield, Tridium

Saving the Earth should not Cost the Earth,Dave Lapsley, Econowise

IoT Platforms Manage the Edge,Luke Dalske, BitBox 

‘We’ Don’t Sell Flexible Office Space, James McHale, Memoori

Wilde Lake Middle School, Sarah Callahan, Aircuity

Sell the way buyers buy,Kevin McCaughey, Your Growth Engine, LLC

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