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Solution Partner Authorized TALON® Dealer BACnet Issues & Events Alliance through its subsidiary, Constellation Alliance, LLC. Other participants include leading equipment manufacturers, building automation companies, system integrators, and software application businesses. The founding members include Cimetrics, Clasma, Constellation Alliance, LLC, Delta Controls Inc., Energy Control Inc., Gridlogix, LonMark International, Novar, Richards-Zeta, and Tridium. Together, Alliance participants are working to forge a new electricity load response model that will surpass the current utility-driven demand response offerings and provide customers with more control over their energy costs. “The NewEnergy Alliance is committed to delivering the tools customers need to meet economic and environmental business objectives,” said Jack Mc Gowan, president and chief executive ofﬁcer of Energy Control Inc., an Alliance member. “This collaborative approach will ultimately allow facility owners to control and proactively manage their electrical costs by more effectively harnessing and directing load in response to changes in the energy marketplace, including real-time and day-ahead pricing.” The Alliance participants view deployment of a new load response model as integral to the development of more energy efﬁcient and price responsive facilities. Membership is predicated on a commitment to embracing open platforms that enhance building automation systems, deliver best-in-class innovative technologies to customers, and make possible and promote sustainable energy strategies. ideal for applications like data centers and large central plants, or for customers who desire future expansion capability.” The VLX PLATINUM features more than triple the memory — 76MB — of Alerton’s current VLX controller, which has 20MB of memory. This enables users to use more BACnet objects such as alarms, schedules, and trendlogs, and DDC. The VLX-PLATINUM works with all existing Alerton EXP modules, BACtalk Control Module (BCM) controllers, VLC controllers, and Envision for BACtalk software v2.0x and higher, and is fully BACnet-compatible. Viconics offers savings via infrared Viconics Inc, Montreal, Canada is pleased to announce the release of the VT7000 Series thermostats equipped with on-board Passive InfraRed Motion detector. With soaring energy costs, commercial building owners are constantly searching for new ways to reduce energy consumption without sacriﬁcing user comfort. Unfortunately, this is not always easy. Typically standard automation systems offer only limited centralized scheduling with event exceptions only. The latest Viconics VT7000 PIR Thermostat allows switching occupancy based on presence rather than on scheduling with the addition of an integrated motion detector. This new functionality now make older methods obsolete and eliminates costly devices and programming which were required in the past. The Viconics VT7000 series thermostat with integrated on-board PIR sensor, simpliﬁes installation and commissioning, and eliminates a signiﬁcant portion of the initial set-up cost. The VT7000 series thermostats have been speciﬁcally designed for easy installation in today’s mid-market commercial buildings, schools, and other commercial facilities, which are controlled by unitary and applied HVAC equipment. Optimal energy savings is realized without the need for user programming by automatically switching between occupied comfort, and relaxed standby temperature setpoints when motion is detected in a room. Along with its network capabilities including BACnet, LONtalk, or Wireless Zigbee compatibility, the VT7000 provides a powerful energy and service-monitoring package. BACnet A local, independent Siemens Solution Partner is your source for a complete TALON® system. And, as an authorized TALON dealer, they are also your source for the full line of high quality Siemens valves, sensors, actuators, controllers and variable frequency drives. Siemens Solution Partners offer unparalleled customer service, training for your staff and technical support. Each has completed extensive training to become a Siemens Solution Partner. When you choose TALON, you don’t just get the best technology, you get con dence backed by the resources of Siemens. To nd your local, independent Siemens Solution Partner, visit www.usa.siemens.com/SSP New Alerton controller targets data centers and central plants Alerton (www.alerton.com) has debuted its VLX-PLATINUM controller, which meets the ever increasing need for more memory and speed in building automation systems. The VLX-PLATINUM offers more than triple the memory of the current VLX controller to accommodate more BACnet objects such as alarms, schedules and trendlogs as well as more room for DDC programming. With increased processor performance, this controller also offers signiﬁcantly improved execution speed. “Users can take full advantage of the input/output capacity in the VLXPLATINUM because it enables more complex strategies,” said Mark Behar, Alerton’s product manager. “This makes it Input 169 at www.esmagazine.com/instantproductinfo 18B B AC n e t C o n f e r e n c e a n d E xp o Su p p l emen t 8/7/08 3:59:25 PM 8/20/08 3:50:15 PM 22_ThrdPgAd_ES_BcNt_v1a.indd 1 ESM09084SiemensVert.indd 1 http://www.alerton.com http://www.usa.siemens.com/SSP http://www.usa.siemens.com/SSP http://www.esmagazine.com/instantproductinfo

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Engineered Systems - September 2008 Contents Editor's Note HVAC Challenge Back2Basics Case In Point Commissioning Building Automation HVACR Designer Tips Application Checklist LEED®, Or Get (It) Out Of The Way? BACnet Supplement Race To Market Steam Humidification In Pharmaceutical Facilities Outside Air, Inside Data Centers Forecast: Increasingly Cloudy And Under Control Products Computers & Software Literature Glossary Classifieds Advertiser Index Tomorrow's Environment

Engineered Systems - September 2008

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