Dwyer Series GSTA Carbon Monoxide/Nitrogen Dioxide Transmitter

The GSTA monitors gas concentrations in underground garages and loading docks. For CO units, the output can be 0 to 200 or 0 to 500 ppm. NO2 units come with a standard 0 to 10 ppm range, which can be inverted to 20 to 24 mA or 10 (5) to 0 VDC using internal dip switches.

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Niagara Framework

As a universal, reusable software platform, the Niagara Framework develops smart applications, smart devices and device-to-enterprise solutions on a common platform rapidly and easily. There's no need to spend time, resources, and money building your own platform when you can develop on Niagara and immediately build on it.

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Equipment Criticality: Assessment For Reliability  
Maintenance Technology, October 2011
Equipment criticality assessment is a key process in the development of any maintenance and reliability process. It provides the basis for determining the value and impact that specific equipment has on the manufacturing or production process, as well as the level of attention that equipment requires in terms of maintenance strategy and tactics.

How much is downtime costing you?  
InTech, October 2011
By Dave Crumrine and Doug Post, Interstates Construction Services
Many of the real costs of downtime are hidden in other cost areas and do not show up unless you account for them properly. To effectively calculate total downtime cost, uncover all of these costs and list them in a separate "downtime" category.

How to save money with presence detectors  
Automated Buildings, September 2011
By Andrey Golovin, BIG-RU and KNX Russia
A BAS will reduce energy consumption in a building, but very often the building automation system has no precise procedures for controlling the lighting system. Using presence detectors, motion detectors and twilight switches provides many possibilities to increase energy savings efforts in a building.

The Challenge to Legacy Building Management Systems  
Automated Buildings, September 2011
By Jim Sinopoli, Smart Buildings
Improved or advanced BMS systems will need to have "middleware" software tools and be able to standardized data from a variety of sources and systems into an open database structure.

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Honeywell announces OneWireless Video Solution
Video Solution allows plants to enhance their perimeter security and employee safety by deploying industrial video cameras over the OneWireless network.

QA Graphics Expands 3D Equipment Graphic Library
3D Equipment Library includes models that accurately represent mechanical equipment from York, Carrier, Trane, McQuay, Liebert, Ingersoll, and more.

Other Product Announcements

• Honeywell enhances MasterMind for Mobility Software
• Chipkin enhances BACnet Explorer
• 2 Good Software releases free Trend Importer 4
• Secomea adds remote access to SiteManager
• Trend Control Systems anounces TL1 network device
• Alerton adds Wireless to VLD-362 building controller
• Lenox releases Portable Furnace Camera Diagnostic System

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Toshiba updates Surveillance & IP Video Website
The site includes self-learning resources, case studies, and a technical library with datasheets and white papers.

Green Building Operations & Maintenance manual  
The manual provides building owners a comprehensive resource for reducing the use of energy, water, and toxic chemicals and for operating facilities in a more sustainable, healthy manner.

QA Graphics offers support for Johnson Controls Metasys  
QA Graphics is a factory trained vendor available to provide graphic services for Johnson Controls' Metasys Graphics+ graphics package

Power Sources Unlimited upates web site  
Web site covers AC Front Ends, Rectifiers, DC Input Front Ends, DC/DC Bus Converters, Chassis Mount AC/DC Supplies, DC Power Systems, Chassis Mount DC/DC Supplies, Inverters, and more.

GAMBICA offers free VSD energy savings calculator  
Free calculator estimates the energy savings that installing a variable speed drive (VSD) on a relevant application can achieve.

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Wind turbine at manufacturing plant has hydraulic tip-up tower  
Control Engineering, October 2011
Wago Corporation installed a Renewegy VP-20 Wind Turbine capable of generating 20 kW for its Wisconsin headquarters. Hydraulics raise and lower the tower.

Sontay refits HVAC with wireless controls  
Process and Control Today, October 2011
Sontay enabled the speedy retrofit of HVAC controls at the Head Office of the Bedford Pilgrims Housing Association (BPHA) in Bedford, UK.

ABB controls 'natural cooling' data center in Iceland  
ABB PLCs control the modular natural free cooling system at the Thor Data Center in Reykjavik.

Smart buildings for the smart grid  
PlantServices, September 2011
By Janette Bombardier, IBM
Instrumented, interconnected and intelligent, the IBM Vermont Center of Excellence is a proof point for the smarter base. And while the team's success is measurable and world class, they would tell you they have only scratched the surface of what's possible.

Improving the Efficiency of Toronto's District Heating Plant  
Power, August 2001
By Richard Parrish, MindShare Communications
Enwave Energy's district heating plants in downtown Toronto will be operating cleaner and more efficiently when boiler upgrades now under way are completed. Enwave hired Benz Air Engineering (BAE) to design and install upgrades to all eight boilers inside Enwave's Pearl Street Station.

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Pushing alarms beyond the building walls with Exele TopView  
Automation.com, July 2011
By Dane Overfield, Exele Information Systems
White paper addresses the benefits of adding a monitoring, alarm, and notification system on top of building automation systems.

Post-Stuxnet Industrial Security  
By Frank Dickman, Innonimate
After Stuxnet, the threats from malware and insufficient IT security in automation networks can no longer be ignored. The real danger looming out there, however, is not from Stuxnet itself, but rather from mutations likely to be created by imitators.

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Tridium updates NiagaraAX Framework software to QNX  
NiagaraAX 3.6 runs on the QNX Neutrino Realtime Operating System (RTOS).

Siemens names Daryl Dulaney CEO of Infrastructure  
Dulaney was appointed chief executive officer of the company's newly-formed Infrastructure & Cities (IC) Sector in North America, which comprises the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America.

EnOcean Appoints Laurent Giai-Miniet CEO  
Laurent Giai-Miniet spent 20 years with Texas Instruments (TI), where he held several management positions.

ZigBee Alliance ratifies Building Automation Standard  
The ZigBee Alliance completed development and ratified the ZigBee Building Automation standard.

QA Graphics Introduces Partner Program  
The partner program will allow systems integrators to resell QA Graphics' products and services.

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Tridium to supply Niagara to Connexx Energy  
Connexx Energy has standardized on the Niagara platform from Tridium.

Lantronix to supply Ethernet device servers to Quadlogic  
Quadlogic can now offer remote access, monitoring and control of its energy metering technology over Ethernet, dramatically improving communication and reducing support costs for its customers.

QA Graphics supplies BAS Image Module to Lynxspring  
Lynxspring will include a pre-installed version of the Module in its JENEsys ProBuilder software for Tridium's NiagaraAX platform.

OSI to Supply SCADA System to University of Western Ontario  
OSI will provide a SCADA system to monitor power distribution for the campus's 87 buildings.

Advantech to supply computers to Industrial Video and Control  
IVC provides IP-based video solutions by combining high-quality cameras, enclosures, and software for industrial, commercial, and military applications.

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Automation Fair 2011
November 16, 2011 - November 17, 2011
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Join us in Chicago as we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Automation Fair. A great opportunity to explore a wide variety of smart, safe, sustainable manufacturing solutions geared toward improving your business profitability. And, best of all, it's FREE.

ARC World Industry Forum - Transforming Industry through New Processes and Technologies
February 6, 2012 - February 9, 2012
Location: Orlando, FL, USA
The event includes sessions on the major issues facing our industry, with multiple tracks that enable executives to explore these topics from different perspectives. Dynamic roundtable discussions will provide an intimate opportunity for attendees to ask questions and share experiences with the speakers and their peers.

Guangzhou Electrical Building Technology
June 9, 2012 - June 12, 2012 , Hong Kong
With special focus on building and home automation plus electrical engineering, the fair is held concurrently with the Guangzhou International Lighting Exhibition. Both fairs are part of the architecture and technology fairs organised by Messe Frankfurt, headed by the biennial world leading Light+Building fair in Frankfurt.

HANNOVER MESSE announces IndustrialGreenTec  
IndustrialGreenTec will premiere at HANNOVER MESSE 2012 and focus on pioneering environmental technology and sustainability solutions.

ASHRAE's 2012 Winter Conference Seeks Papers  
Papers addressing advances in high performance buildings, integrated design and numerous high-intensity HVAC applications are being sought for ASHRAE's 2012 Winter Conference in Chicago, Ill., Jan. 21-25.

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