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What Make The New Belimo Actuator Retrofit Kit Special? When Belimo’s Joe Carcare stopped in a couple of weeks ago, he showed us, the easy way to replace a valve actuator using Belimo’s new universal actuator retrofit linkages for globe valves. Here is Belimo’s video showing just how useful this product is when replacing a valve actuator

Hanging Out With Scott Muench from J2Innovations. FIN Builder: Provides Cross Platform Support, Saves Time and Money, Visualizes Any Data Source, Creates Fantastic User Experiences, Promotes Company Standards and is Simple to Use.

Fall into Stromquist Atlanta Classes: It’s that time again – school is back in session. These classes fill up quickly so get registered right away! The below classes will be held at Stromquist at 4620 Atlanta Rd, Smyrna, GA. Price includes training material, certificate, plus breakfast and lunch (the half day Controller class does not include lunch). Start time is 7:30 a.m. Email [email protected] for more information.

ControlTrends Awards Thanks Engineered Systems for Their Media Sponsor Support: The ControlTrends Steering Committee thanks ES Engineered Systems’ Robert Beverly for his editor’s note and we look forward to ES’s continued coverage of our 2013 ControlTrends Awards at the BB King Blues Club, in NY Times Square, January 21, 2014.

See Why The New Honeywell Prestige IAQ Could be a Nest Killer: Stromquist & Company’s, man from the counter, Seän Johnson, shows you how to install the new Honeywell Prestige IAQ thermostat.

Mark’s Cool Tools Episode 2: A Tool to Read Hard to Get to Part Numbers. Stromquist & Company’s Mark Ramick shows you another cool tool that allows you to read part numebrs in hard to get to places and also pick up things you drop with a magnetic feature. This product runs between $20-$25.

Honeywell T7079 Temperature Controllers No Longer Available: Honeywell announced today that the T7079 family of temperature controllers will no longer be available. Click here to see a list of possible replacements. You can check with your local Honeywell distributor, or one of the Controls Group North America members to see if they have any of these controllers still in stock.

The Birth of Lynxspring: Lynxspring’s Terry Swope tells the story of how and why Lynxspring was created. Great stuff! Thanks Tery for Lynxspring’s Platinum sponsorship of the 2013 Controltrends Awards and sharing the Lynxspring story.

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED): Make Black and White out of Gray by Josh Millsapps: Important watch and straightstick summary! Though this is a primer for CPTED EXAM goers, this is solid guidance for better security everywhere — especially for the schools and universities, as well as municipalities, hospital, and retail markets. Differentiating between public and private space and displaying a vested interest are vital elements of deterrence.

Ken’s TOP 5 Information Pivot Points of Week 33: 1. SmartGridNews: Sensus was selected earlier this week to provide the core communications technology to support one of the world’s largest smart metering projects: the UK government’s plan to put smart meters in millions of homes and small businesses by 2020. Sensus technology will support the rollout of electric and gas smart meters to ten million locations in the Northern region of Great Britain, subject to contract.

Eric’s Favorite Video Of The Week: Marshall Thurber On Speaking With Good Purpose: Playing “above the line” has been perhaps the best thing. The first thing that happens when you make a mistake is that your mind wants to lay blame — on someone else! Marshall Thurber proposes a powerful solution to deal with that tendency that might just change your company’s corporate culture for the better using the “The Two Dollar Rule.” Watch a better way to deal with blame, justification, and shame in the modern corporate world.

ControlTalk NOW will continue to provide a weekly episode featuring the people, products, and the News of the Week shaping our world of controls, building automation, and the HVAC industry.

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Ken Smyers and Eric Stromquist review the HVAC and Building Automation Control News for the week ending August 11, 2013

Ken Smyers and Eric Stromquist break down the latest news HVAC and Building Automation Controls.

Make a Splash This Summer with the “Dive into FIN” Program: Throughout Summer 2013, J2 Innovations is running a special program designed to help System Integrators and Distributors quickly become experts in FIN by providing personalized one-on-one support.

Is Your Building Automation System an Open Door To Hackers? interview Cylance Inc.’s Terry McCorkle at IBcon 2013. If you have been following Controltrends, you know we have been sounding the alarm about the current trend of building automation systems being hacked and the problems caused by these intrusions.

KMC Needs Your Vote to Win 2013 BACnet International Competition! For the next couple of weeks a window of opportunity is open for you to acknowledge the role of KMC Controls in the BACnet community. The annual BACnet International Leaders of the Pack award nominations are now underway. We encourage you to take advantage of this open window to nominate KMC or KMC-submitted success stories for recognition.

A Day In The Life of A Smart Building: Prelude for Ken’s interview tomorrow with Dan Klasen, from ESI, by watching this video, ControlTrends members will get a better perspective of the Master Systems Integrator’s grand scale integration.

ESI’s Dan Klasen Explains the Role of Master Systems Integrator at IBCON 2013: Environmental Systems Inc. (ESI) is a leading Master Systems Integrator servicing the GSA, Kohls, Macys, and other national accounts to provide “portfolio-driven” services generating the normalized data source that optimizes efficiencies and reduces operational costs. ESI combines their own resources and experience with those of the local systems integrators to meet the challenges of large, coast-to-coast portfolios.

Contemporary Controls Video: Understanding EIA-485: Connectors, Grounding and Protection: This video discusses the importance of cabling and repeaters. Cables attenuate and distort signal, so cable selection depends on data rate, encoding, distance. Repeaters that use the data link protocol are more reliable than basic EIA-485 repeaters.

Can Honeywell Win Variable Frequency Drive of The Year Again? Not if Teco Westinghouse, Siemens, Johnson Controls, ABB, and all the other self respecting VFD manufactures have anything to say about it. Click here to see Honeywell bring home the award at the 2012 ControlTrends Awards, and click here to register to nominate and vote for the 2013 ControlTrends Awards.

Enerliance’s LOBOS Leads the Way — Ray Pustinger at IBCON 2013. Enerliance was founded by two building controls experts, Scot Duncan, P.E. and Bob Johnson. Before founding Enerliance, Scot and Bob spent 30 years working together manually optimizing the performance of some of California’s premier real estate facilities.

Doesn’t the Honeywell Delphi Boiler Control System Make Absolute Sense to You? The Delphi Combustion Efficiency Panel integrates flame safeguard control, fuel-air ratio control, O2 Trim, variable frequency drive (VFD) control, and proportional integral derivative (PID) control into a single, integrated, pre-wired panel with a PC touchscreen for easy, user-friendly commissioning.

CAN2GO Demo Suitcase — The Most Powerful Sales Tool in the Industry! Can2Go has packaged a full Building Energy Management System (BEMS) to demonstrate the power of CAN2GO’s technology and its interaction with a varied ecosystem of wireless devices. Contact your Schneider Electric or Viconics representative to order your CAN2GO Demo Suitcase today!

Ken’s TOP 5 Information Pivot Points of Week 30: 1. Building a Digital Culture: Patrick Hoffstetter, the Chief Digital Officer of Renault, describes the challenges that many companies face in creating a culture with digital at its core.

Tridium News — 2014 Niagara Summit — Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas — April 27-29, 2014: Tridium’s Niagara Summit is three days of world class education from industry leading experts.

Honeywell WEBs Squad Update: At the beginning of the year we launched WEBs Squad™ – a team focused on improving our customer’s overall experience and driving continuous improvements with technical support, engineering, and marketing.

ControlTalk NOW will continue to provide a weekly episode featuring the people, products, and the News of the Week shaping our world of controls, building automation, and the HVAC industry.

ControlTalk NOW referenced these links: Tridium, EasyIO, Stromquist, DGLogik, GSA, Johnsons Controls, Honeywell

Niagara Solutions — Back to the Future: The Intelligent Building by Tridium: Nobody does it better. This is the who/what/where/when/how of the integration industry. Great link to a great solution! Tridium is the global leader in open platforms, application software frameworks, automation infrastructure technology, energy management and device-to-enterprise integration solutions. Tridium’s technology and applications have fundamentally changed the way devices and systems connect, integrate and interoperate with each other and the enterprise — worldwide!

Tim’s Tech Tip: How to Monitor KW with a Thermostat: Can you monitor power consumption and external KW loads with your thermostat? Let Stromquist & Company’s, Tim Chamblee, show you how easily this can be done with the EnTouch Thermostat system.

DGLogik at IBCON 2013 — Begin Your Own Visualization with DG Box! DGLogik has radically revolutionized the world of data! Data Visualization, once the domain of the high end users, is now accessible to every application with DG Box, the remarkable and affordable plug-and-play Appliance Platform for Data Acquisition, Data Storage, and Visualization.

GSA’s Green Proving Ground Study: Responsive Lighting Systems Save Energy! This report, “Responsive Lighting Systems Save Energy,” by Kevin Powell, GSA’s Green Proving Ground Program Manager, provides compelling insight, information, and facts — the energy and money saving REASONS why building owners and facility managers should be installing lighting retrofits sooner rather than later!

Overview of Johnson Controls Facility Explorer Building Automation Control System: Johnson Controls Facility Explorer Provides a Fresh View of Your Building Operations, No Matter Where You Are. Johnson Controls’ Facility Explorer is a building automation system tool that allows you to keep track of your building operations via a portable device. The more you can see how your facility is performing, the more you’ll know how to reduce costs and improve comfort. Facility Explorer meets any building management need. Wireless or wired field controllers and devices provide direct closed-loop control over mechanical and HVAC equipment. Supervisory controllers deliver network-wide coordination for single or multiple sites. The result is an integrated, comprehensive control solution.

How to reset a Honeywell RedLink System RedLINK™ Wireless Comfort Systems: Honeywell’s exclusive RedLINK Wireless Technology – and our full-suite of wireless-enabled comfort systems – help you better meet your customer’s comfort needs and connect you to expanded business opportunities. Accessory add-ons offer comfort, convenience and connection your customers are willing to pay for. And the ease of wireless installation means no added labor costs and optimized profitability for you.

Ken’s TOP 5 Information Pivot Points of the Week: 1. Learn about the JACE-3E controller in this month’s TridiumTALK. Perfect for small facilities and remotes sites. JACE-3E This month’s TridiumTALK will review our recently released JACE®-300E controller. We’ll discuss how it is ideal for smaller facilities and remote sites, as well as useful for distributing control and monitoring in larger facilities. The JACE-3E controller will also be Niagara 4-ready when the next generation of the Niagara Framework is launched.

Eric’s Favorite Video of The Week For Week Ending July 21, 2013: How does your business stay relevant in a world were customers have so many choices? Stromquist & Company was lucky enough work with Marshall Thurber to answer this questions. Marshall was kind enough to let us film six of his key principals for being successful. This video is the first of six videos that we posted on ControlTrends.

For more information on Mckenney’s Inc. internet security classes click here. Stay tuned for information on the upcoming Black Hat internet security conference in Las Vegas.

ControlTalk NOW will continue to provide a weekly episode featuring the people, products, and the News of the Week shaping our world of controls, building automation, and the HVAC industry.

Ken and Eric break down all the HVAC and Building Automation Control News of the week. See more at http://controltrends.org

ControlTalk NOW thanks Belimo — this week’s Platinum sponsor!

Belimo is a world leader in the design and manufacture of damper actuators and control valves used in commercial HVAC systems. Known for its direct-coupled actuator and innovations in pressure independent control valve technology, Belimo has solutions to maintain an energy efficient building environment.

Honeywell Press Release: Sioux City is First Municipality to Implement New Honeywell Wi-Fi Thermostat to Help Utilities Keep The Lights On And Save Customers Money.

Rob Murchison on Intelligent Buildings At IBCON 2013, Rob Murchison talks about adopting and implementing comprehensive energy management and building controls strategies.

US-CERT: United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team’s Mission is to Improve the Nation’s CyberSecurity Posture: ControlTrends thanks Marc Petock, VP Marketing at Lynxspring, for this heads up referral to the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team and US-CERT Security Tip ST04-002 and Password Security.

Haystack Press Release: Leading Technology Companies Announce Support for Haystack Data Modeling Standard: RICHMOND, VA JUNE 25, 2013-Today, a number of leading technology companies in the automation industry announced their support for the Project-Haystack data-modeling standard for smart device data.

John Petze: How The Right Graphics Package Saves Big Money in Your Buildings.

The Belimo Energy Valve Demonstrates How Knowledge is Power! Belimo demonstrates how knowledge is power with The Belimo Energy Valve: A two-way pressure independent control valve that optimizes, documents, and proves water coil performance.

Bryan Pike AIC Wireless provides an outstanding video on the Sedona Platform and how to configure your network for use with Aurora AX Controllers.

Bryan Pike AIC Wireless at IBcon 2013: AIC Wireless is a world class leader of wireless solutions and the coolest lighting control ever — the “Bulit”.

StatTalk: Warren S. Johnson Patented the Thermostat in 1883. Thanks ASME Milwaukee for the History & Heritage of the first electric thermostat.

Eric’s Favorite Video of The Week: Check out this video on Google Glass, and think about how it is going to change how we do technical support and installations in our industry.

Ken’s TOP 5 Information Pivot Points of the Week: ControlTrends is about getting HVAC and Controls information to people who rely on relevant content, current perspectives, and knowing and seeing the driving forces that are shaping our industry.

NIAGARA UPDATE – Patches available for Java 7 Update 25 Issue: Last week Oracle released Java 7 update 25 which causes the Niagara web applet to fail in all released versions of Niagara in all browsers. This issue may affect your customers who accept the default automatic Java upgrade.

WEBs-AX™ Update & JAVA 7 Patch: Honeywell is pleased to announce the availability of the WEBs-AX 3.5U4 and 3.6U4 software update release with immediate effect. Along with this we are also releasing a patch for JAVA 7 Update 24 Issue for each of the releases. Please make sure you install the update release first, and then apply the JAVA patch.

ControlTalk NOW will continue to provide a weekly episode featuring the people, products, and the News of the Week shaping our world of controls, building automation, and the HVAC industry.

Ken and Eric continue to breakdown IBcon and talk about how to save energy in buildings by better Hvac and lighting control.

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