ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings VideoCast and Podcast for Week Ending April 3, 2016 features videos from RealComm’s thought leaders, Dwyer’s Smart Air Hood, and Contemporary Controls’ Sedona Application Editor. Belimo Ultrasonic Flow meter webinar, Ken Sinclair’s Automated Buildings’ April edition, and an evaluation of India’s most important issues by Sameer Pradhan. ControlTalk NOW video and audio coverage will resume next week.
RealComm Out of the Trenches March 2016. Want to find out what the thought leaders in Smart Buildings Real Estate are thinking? You have to check out RealComm IBcon 2016! As they prepare for the 2016 RealComm IBCon event to be held June 21-23 in Silicon Valley, you can get a taste for what to expect from the inaugural episode of OUT of the Trenches with Joe Rich from Tishman and Speyer and Tom Taddep from Kimco Reality.
Dwyer’s SMART Air Hood™ — This Changes Everything. QUAD FLOW DESIGN TECHNOLOGY: A patent pending design based on controlling the circulating air patterns providing a more even air flow with minimal backpressure effects. The design results in an accuracy of 3% or better regardless of diffuser types. PREDICTIVE BALANCING: An industry first for airflow balancing, this patent pending process guides the balancing technician on setting the proper air flow values for each diffuser to fully optimize the HVAC system.
Belimo Webinar: Ultrasonic Flow Meter – The Right Solution for Accurate Measurement. Ultrasonic Flow Meter – The Right Solution for Accurate Measurement. During this 30 minute webinar you will learn about our new stand-alone flow meters that provide accurate and repeatable hot or chilled water flow measurement. Belimo’s inline flow meters are maintenance free and accurately measure flow rate to help offset building operation costs. Register NOW!
Ken Sinclair’s April 2016 Automated Buildings Theme is “IoT Disruption Transforms and Opens Industry.” In his April 2016 Automated Buildings edition, Ken Sinclair, AB owner and editor, references the steady march of technical advances that have impacted our industry over the past 40 years to highlight his April theme “IoT Disruption Transforms and Opens Industry,” emphasizing that we must stay actively involved in the IT technologies because the next leg of the journey has just begun. Ken Sinclair: “Transforming and Opening the Industry is a journey, not a destination, and will require consistent and constant attention.
Gain Knowledge of Contemporary Controls’ Sedona Application Editor (SAE) With SAE Videos. Contemporary Controls has produced three videos to help you better understand the functionality of SAE. The SAE allows for graphical development of control applications for Sedona devices such as Contemporary Controls’ BAScontrol20, 22 and BASremote, along with Sedona devices from other manufacturers. SAE is available free for download from Contemporary Controls’ website. Included with the download is a Sedona Virtual Machine (SVM) that runs on your PC.
Sameer Pradham — Automated Buildings Article: “Why BAS Projects in India Have a Trust Deficit?” This highly informative article was originally released in the April, 2016 edition of Automated Buildings. “Why BAS Projects in India Have a Trust Deficit?” By Sameer Pradhan, Director, ControlTrends India: India, as we all know, is an emerging economy, a large democracy with a well-capitalised central bank, a sound judiciary and a new government that has rolled out a significant number of attractive measures to make India a top investment destination. Many national initiatives such as Skill Development in India, Make in India, and Digital India are underway, but the demands of the on-going upgrading of our existing infrastructure coupled with the building of 100 new smart cities require additional resources.
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2015 ControlTrends Awards Red Carpet Interviews (Caution: Superstars and Super Heroes Entering Stage Right). Great ControlTrends Awards interviews with Ken Sinclair, Automated Buildings and Brad White, SES Engineering, discuss the Young Guns Awards (Climate Superheroes), the AHR EXPO Industry Service Award, the global growth of ControlTrends Community and Hans Kranz’s Hall of Fame induction; along with interviews with Johan Schakenraad, CEO, EasyIO Europe; Allion and Scott Cochrane, Cochrane Supply; Alerton’s Amy Doran and Kevin Callahan; BASSG’s Alper Uzmezler; McKinney’s Leroy Walden; Jason Briggs from J2 Innovation; Siemens’ Josh Felperin; Thermokon’s David Alliband; Chris Lane and Dimitri Papadopoulos from Johnson Controls (Congratulations on Facility Explorer’s 10 Year Anniversary); John and James Donahue from Control Consultants, Inc.; and Blue Ridge Technologies’ Bill Dunkleberger.
ControlTalk NOW guest Chris Schneider, General Manager, OpenBMCS. From sunny down under, Chris’ tells us about his latest focus, which is about producing a video support package for the OpenBMCS software package — a fully web based building automation head-end to manage everything about your Sedona site: graphical front end, programming, alarming, trending, and controller management. This step by step video guide walks you through installing a system, adding a new controller, and an in-depth review of the alarming package. OpenBCMS has recently launched two new modules, which can be added through their website: Tenant Billing and Maintenance Log. 
Hans Kranz, Fabled Controls Wizard from Landstule, Germany, Inducted into ControlTrends 2015 Hall of Fame. Perhaps the greatest highlight moment of the 2015 ControlTrends Awards was the special pleasure of watching Automated Buildings’ editor and owner, Ken Sinclair, induct Hans R. Kranz into the ControlTrends Hall of Fame. Hans’ incredible sixty year career in the HVAC industry began at the age of 14, and progressed with one achievement after another, becoming known as the father of Standard BACS Functions. Hans has served on the Presidial Board of DIN (German Standardization Institute), is a member of the DKE (German Electrotechnical Commission) and the VDI (Association of German Engineers with 150,000 members). For more on Hans Kranz’s outstanding life achievements and biography, please see below.
ControlTalk NOW featured guest Ken Sinclair, who discusses his March, 2016 Release: “Project-Haystack Open for Mashing.” March, 2016’s edition gives recognition and congratulates Project-Haystack and the Sedona Community by featuring the E-zine launch of Project-Haystack Connections, a seminal work by Therese Sullivan, and Ken’s Open Sedona Evolution editorial. In Ken’s own words: “We are extremely pleased to deliver to you Project-Haystack’s new e-zine “Connections” as a supplement/insert to our March issue.
30 Minutes with Lynxspring – The New BACnet to Haystack Data Pump. The next “30 Minutes with Lynxspring”, our monthly webinar series featuring Lynxspring subject-matter experts and special guests, is scheduled for Wednesday, March 16th at 12:00 PM CDT. March’s “30 Minutes with Lynxspring” will look at our new BACnet to Haystack Data Pump. With the number of and variety of equipment, sensors, devices and building automation systems that are available to connect to, the amount of building data available has increased considerably.
ControlTalk NOW interview with Dr. Igor Mezic, Chief Scientific and Technical Advisor, Co-Founder and John Morris, VP of Sales and Marketing of 
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ControlTrends Introduces Sameer Pradhan, Director of 
