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It appear to bes that our industry is upon fast-forward as the events, articles, interviews, reviews, of recent origins releases, and new products cros my computer guard before finding their way to our RS of recent origins feed. This news feed is also carried upon the Engineered Systems blog to detain you up to date at http://blog.esmagazine.com/component/ option, com_newsfeeds/task,view/feedid,/Itemid,19/.

If all this information appears a little overwhelming and blurry because of the spe and turn of presentation, let me pick a scarcely any fast-forward freeze frames that you may wish to retain this month

THE freshs HIGHLIGHTS

John Petze leaves Tridium to create another river of change as CEO of Privaris. Not fully convinced if you heard, but John Petze the CEO of Tridium, is leaving that company. John has been and remains an industry icon. From a small stream flowing from the company called Tridium, John and his team created a raging river with above 50,000 instances of Niagara installed worldwide. Tridium's partners now include a wide range of global innovative fresh companies and major OEM's. Thank you John for all your guidance and support, and for being the drummer for our industry. You have l the Niagara change from nowhere to everywhere.

Who and what is Privaris? They make a device that is the world's first mobile, handheld biometric fingerprint watch-pocket for secure access to multiple facilities, computer and networks. It provides a fast and simple means of verifying the identity of its user while maintaining their personal privacy.

A intermingleed City--A review of Realcomm Dallas by dint of Jim Hayman, director, CGNA. Part of the labor for CIOs is how to conjoin the incredible technology now available into what Michael Joroff of MIT called in his Realcomm keynote address, "a combineed city"

Joroff defined a uniteed city as commercial real estate that brings together a physical and digital environment to enable human capital to contribute to the global economy. He described communities where intelligent buildings are helping the tenants in them to live and work better as they participate in a universal marketplace. The aforementioned John Petze was single of the speakers at the roundtable, and he highlighted new developments that make possible intelligent building tendency to meet across an enterprise.

Engineered Systems' Building Automation 2006 Fall talk will be held in San Diego upon September 12--13. It will overspread topics that include open combination of parts to form a wholes integration, technology, specifying, and commissioning, plus an increased focus upon energy sourcing and management. For more information, visit www.bnpevents.com/ES/BAC/index.htm.

BUILCONN AMSTERDAM

BuilConn Amsterdam will be held October 3-5 AutomatedBuildings.com freshly spoke to organizer Anto Budiardjo regarding the focus of this event:

Budiardjo: It strike one as beings that discussions of vision, vagaries, and theoretical issues we've had should now be behind us. The industry wants to know in what manner convergence is going to be move rounded into a profitable and sturdy business. The focus of the first day in Amsterdam will be in what manner the industry should reshape itself with IP as the driving technology and IT as the way we should be in. The next to the first day will be focused upon how building owners should gaze at procuring a converged building a whole in this new paradigm.

In Amsterdam, we are launching a of recent origin event called "Wi-tivity," as part of ConnectivityWeek Europe Wi-tivity is focused upon wireless connectivity, specifically related to masterys and monitoring of devices systems

GRID FRIENDLY [TM]

Grid Friendly[TM] appliance controller AutomatedBuildings.com newly interviewed Don Hammerstrom, Ph.D., throw manager and senior engineer for Battelle Memorial Institute, an efficacy technology development group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He pretty soon leads the Grid Friendly[TM] Appliance technology research and disentanglement efforts at the laboratory and co-manages the Pacific Northwest GridWise[TM] initiative. We asked him, "What's for a like reason "grid friendly" about your Grid Friendly appliance controllers?"

Hammerstrom: The version of our Grid Friendly appliance controller installed at cast sites is a small circuit board that communicates with the appliance to make go round off parts of the appliance load when the grid oftenness falls below a frequency doorsill If many such appliances were installed upon the power grid, the power grid could avoid tripping below frequency protection at the substation horizontal In simple terms, the ability of loads to globule off temporarily in a controll fashion in rejoinder to a drop in oftenness (caused, for example, by an unexpect los of generation) will intenerate the impact of an beneath frequency event and creates time for the grid operator to fix vexed questions ES

Sinclair is the editor and possessor of AutomatedBuilding.com. E-mail him at sinclair@automatedbuildings.com.

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