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Smart Energy Initiative is a global program designed to combine Emerson's industrial energy expertise with energy management technologies to help leverage more renewable fuels, lower energy costs, and reduce emissions.

NiagaraAX 3.6 runs on the QNX Neutrino Realtime Operating System (RTOS).

While 2010 showed a comeback in DCS revenue numbers, ARC does not expect the revenue to surpass the 2008 peak until 2012.

The site includes self-learning resources, case studies, and a technical library with datasheets and white papers.

ABB PLCs control the modular natural free cooling system at the Thor Data Center in Reykjavik.

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.

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

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

This year two hospitals will share $40,000 in Siemens products and services.

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.

Over the 15-year contract period, work by Siemens should reduce electricity consumption by county buildings by 37 million kWh.

The partner program will allow systems integrators to resell QA Graphics’ products and services.

Connexx Energy has standardized on the Niagara platform from Tridium.

This guidebook is intended to help manufacturers in all segments improve performance by creating better business decisions through alignments between operations to financial results.

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

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.

Lynxspring will include a pre-installed version of the Module in its JENEsys ProBuilder software for Tridium’s NiagaraAX platform.

Advanced Telemetry is a San Diego-based company offering end-to-end wireless and cloud-based energy management solutions for retail and commercial businesses.

Automation.com, August 2011 By Eric Byres This tale doesn’t have princes or frogs in it, but instead it deals with SCADA and industrial control system security. It is the myth of the "air gap" between control systems and the rest of the world. Believing in it leads to a false sense of complacency by both end users and vendors, making it a very dangerous fairy tale indeed.

Spectris operates across four business segments: Materials Analysis, Test and Measurement, In-line Instrumentation and Industrial Controls. Headquartered in Egham, Surrey, England, the company employs over 6,400 people.