Episode 292: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings Videocast and PodCast for Week Ending Nov 18, 2018 features interviews with two industry experts: Scott Cochrane, president of Cochrane Supply and Engineering, a multi-award-winning company and a leading Industrial IoT Supplier, and Arthur Alter, VP of Business Development at Acuity Brands, who tells us that DGLUX is back, and in a big way. Also, the 2018 ControlTrends Awards Finalists have been announced — Vote today! 2019 AHR Expo Product Preview Released; Honeywell’s new CIPer Next Generation IP Controller line; Comfy Joins Siemens Building Technologies; and CyberPower offers Power Solutions for Every Environment.

Announcing the 2018 ControlTrends Awards Finalists! Congratulations to all of the finalists! We thank our ControlTrends Community for the largest nomination engagement ever, with participation from over 40 countries. And, very special thanks to all of our sponsors! Now, the final voting phase begins. Please use this link to cast your vote — and make sure to pass this voting link along to your colleagues and communities to vote as well. We look forward to seeing you January 13th, 2019, in Atlanta.

Our first guest on ControlTalk NOW is Scott Cochrane, president of Cochrane Supply & Engineering, a multi-award-winning company and a Leading Industrial IoT Supplier. Scott gives us an update on Master Systems Integrators and how their businesses are expanding; yet, their hardware sales are down. You need to listen why! Next, a review of innovative technology: AI and Indoor Positioning Sensing, and last but not least, a preview of Controls-Con 2019.

2019 AHR Expo Product Preview Released: AIR-CONDITIONING & REFRIGERATION EQUIPMENT, SYSTEMS, COMPONENTS & PRODUCTS. The AHR Expo is the world’s largest HVACR event, attracting the most comprehensive gathering of industry professionals from around the globe each year. The Show provides a unique forum where manufacturers of all sizes and specialties, whether a major industry brand or innovative start-up, can come together to share ideas and showcase the future of HVACR technology under one roof. Badge Registration for AHR 2019 is OPEN!

Honeywell’s New CIPer Next-Generation IP Controller Line is a Game Changer in the Building Automation Industry. Honeywell’s new CIPer Next Generation IP Controller line is a game changer in the building automation industry. Offering a complete line of IP Controllers utilizing native Niagara Work Bench; VAV to Plant Control with only 4 SKU’s; and a Secure IP Network using FOXS. CIPer Network Architecture also features Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP), IP Video connection to BLAN, and Simplified Engineering. Get ready for the future of IoT in buildings with this powerful new architecture.

Our second guest on ControlTalk NOW is Arthur Alter, VP of Business Development at Acuity Brands, who explains their realignment with Lucid, and tells us that DGLUX is back in a big way, providing a superior Building Visualization Development Platform that allows you to leverage all your data sources in a single, unified development environment using browser-based technology, that delivers a fast and responsive development environment using HTML5.

Comfy Joins Siemens Building Technologies — The Pursuit of Creating Perfect Places Continues. Great video discussion with Eike-Oliver Steffen, Head Solution and Service Portfolio at Siemens Building Technologies, and Andrew Krioukov, CEO & Co-Founder, Comfy, as they talk about the future of buildings and creating perfect places. Siemens Building Technologies would like to see buildings become active assets, which requires a much better people-building interface, which Comfy provides — because Comfy connects people to their physical environment.

CyberPower — POWER YOUR WAY Solutions for Every Environment. CyberPower manufactures home office and professional-grade UPS systems, PDUs, surge protectors, mobile chargers and connectivity products for consumers and IT professionals. As an industry leader, we’re committed to providing a full range of power management products and solutions to help you power, monitor and safeguard critical equipment and data.

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Episode 291: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings Videocast and PodCast for week ending Nov 11, 2018 is one of our most exciting and anticipated CTN’s of the year, as we announce the finalists for the 2018 ControlTrends Awards! Congratulations to all of the nominees and all of the finalists! We thank our ControlTrends Community for the largest nomination phase engagement ever, with participation from over 40 countries. Our sincere apologies to Cyber Power and Therese Sullivan, who both made the finals and were not announced on the broadcast (due to Eric’s poor eyesight). Cyber Power made the finals for Peripheral Vendor of the Year and Innovative Wireless Product Solution of the Year. Therese Sullivan was recognized as a finalist for the ControlTrends Women of the Year. Finally, very special thanks to all of our sponsors! Now, the final voting phase begins. Please use this link to cast your vote — and make sure to pass this voting link along to your colleagues and communities to vote as well. We look forward to seeing you January 13th, 2019, in Atlanta. Our other posts this week include: Siemens RDS 110 — Smartest Thermostat Yet; 2018 Honeywell Momentum Voice of Customer Wrap-Up; Project Haystack Announces Sponsors of the 2019 Haystack Connect Conference; and Learn How to Protect Your Facilities from Network Security Breaches webinar from IoTium.

Congratulations to all of the finalists! We thank our ControlTrends Community for the largest nomination engagement ever, with participation from over 40 countries. And, very special thanks to all of our sponsors! Now, the final voting phase begins. Please use this link to cast your vote — and make sure to pass this voting link along to your colleagues and communities to vote as well. We look forward to seeing you January 13th, 2019, in Atlanta.

Siemens RDS110 — Smartest Thermostat Yet — 6 Powerful and Accurate On-board Sensors. Understanding your needs with smartness! The Siemens Smart RDS110 Thermostat has been developed to provide professional control and operation of heating applications. With its clean design it fits perfectly into every interior. It is always in touch with its surroundings thanks to six powerful and accurate sensors: temperature, humidity, light, proximity, presence and organic particle detection.

2018 Honeywell Momentum Voice of Customer Wrap-Up! ControlTrends closes its video coverage of the 2018 Honeywell Momentum Event with a Voice of Customer wrap-up with Mike Schwan, Regional Manager and Rob Thompson, Technical Services Manager, Total Controls, a division of RSD, and Pat Marsala, President M & M Controls, and Jeff Ashe, Vice President, Electrical Automation Services, provide an in-depth recap of the 2018 Honeywell Momentum.

Project Haystack Announces Sponsors of the 2019 Haystack Connect Conference. Project Haystack (https://www.project-haystack.org), a 501(c) non-profit organization focused on developing common standards to streamline the interchange and interoperability of data among IoT devices, smart equipment and systems, today announced the first nine sponsors of Haystack Connect 2019 are J2 Innovations, Key2Act. Bueno Systems, Conserve It, KMC Controls, SkyFoundry, Lynxspring, Automated Buildings and Memoori Research.

Learn How to Protect Your Facilities from Network Security Breaches. Attend this webcast and learn how to determine who is on your network, and what they’re doing there. Review strategies to control. monitor, manage and audit all vendor access to critical systems across a building portfolio, and protect a facility’s data, infrastructure, and assets from cyber attacks.

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Episode 290: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings Videocast and PodCast for week ending Nov 4, 2018, features Lynxspring’s Marc Petock, who is joined by Adam Haynes, Sr Product Owner and Justin McCullough, Chief Innovation and Product Officer, with the Facility Solutions Group, one of North America’s top Master Systems Integrators. Next up, we have Ken Sinclair, owner and editor of Automated Buildings, who discusses his November edition theme: “Edge-ification.” Register now for the upcoming TridiumTalk Webinar on Niagara 4.6 System Database Features; Siemens delivers Maximum Hydronic System Efficiency; and Honeywell’s Steve Hoffman’s interview “What You need to Know About IP Controls.”

Our first ControlTalk NOW interview is with Lynxspring’s Marc Petock, who introduces Adam Haynes, Sr Product Owner and Justin McCullough, Chief Innovation and Product Officer, of Facility Solutions Group, one of the largest and most prolific Master Systems Integrators in North America. FSG has over 2000 employees at its 33 branch locations across the U.S., that offer a wide array of lighting, electrical, and advanced control systems. FSG specializes in reducing your energy consumption to improve your bottom line. Take control of your business’s future with control technologies from FSG.

Our second ControlTalk NOW interview is with Ken Sinclair, owner and editor of Automated Buildings, who discusses his November edition theme: “Edge-ification.” We know from last month that “Edge-ification” is the process of moving intelligence and control to the Edge. A host of industry experts are chiming in on this all-important conversation, as the IoT heavy-weights hone their sites on the HVAC and BAS markets.

TridiumTalk: Niagara 4.6 System Database Feature Webinar — Nov 8, 2018, 11:00 AM, EST. The release of Tridium’s Niagara 4.6 introduced the ability for a Niagara Supervisor to examine all the Niagara devices in the Niagara Network and pull up Entity data (tags and relations) into a new System Database. During this TridiumTalk, a high level view will be provided of the System Database feature including setup and configuration of the system indexer.

Siemens’ Hydronic Flow Optimization: How to Maximize Hydronic System Efficiency. This Siemens Hydronic Flow Optimization video makes a strong case for using Siemens’ PICV in conjunction with their BT300 VFD series for maximum occupant comfort and energy savings by assuring accurate flow changes are made when needed.

Honeywell Momentum’s Steve Hoffman: What You Need to Know About IP Controls. We had a chance to catch up with Honeywell’s Steve Hoffman at the 2018 Honeywell Momentum Event. Steve works with consulting engineers making sure they understand the value Honeywell brings to the Smart Buildings Controls market. In this video, Steve shares what we need to know about IP controllers and what makes Honeywell’s new IP controllers special.

Ken Sinclair’s Automated Buildings’ November, 2018 Issue: Our Next Two Semesters of Edge-ifcation. In Ken Sinclair’s November edition of AutomatedBuildings.com, we continue our quest down the Edge Rabbit Hole. We know from last month that “Edge-ification” is the process of moving intelligence and control to the Edge. Ken’s interview with John Petze takes us even deeper into our understanding of “edge-ication” or more correctly, “by computing at the edge,” we are referring to performing essential data acquisition and computation functions as close to the data source as possible.

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