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ABB Ability BuildingPro connects building intelligence with the Samsung SmartThings Pro enterprise IoT ecosystem.

Honeywell will help address critical building needs and improve the fan experience across NHL arenas, practice facilities and community rinks.

The collaboration addresses rising demand for integrated cloud access and video solutions that simplify management across multiple facilities.

New ARC Advisory Group research on the global HVAC Control Systems market reveals that the market is linked to both new building construction and renovations of existing buildings.

The Turlock Irrigation District, located in Turlock, California, is the first publicly owned irrigation district and one of four that provides irrigation water and power to residential, commercial, industrial, and agricultural customers within its service area.

The initial collaboration combines Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Building Advisor – a Building Management System (BMS) and agnostic advisory platform – which connects people and technology collaboratively – and Planon Universe – an integrated software platform to optimize real estate, workplace, and facility management services performances.

The scope of supply includes an ABB Ability Network Manager SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)/Energy Management System (EMS), more than 120 Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) and a fiber-optic communications network to monitor and control the grid.

A publicly owned utility, Tacoma Power provides electricity to Tacoma, Washington and the surrounding areas, serving more than 160,000 customers. It draws 90 percent of its power from hydroelectric generation.

The SCADA/EMS system is intended to allow GVEA to fulfill existing needs for Generation and Energy Management, as well as provide a platform that can be adapted to future requirements for Distribution Management

The new system will include the functionality of OSI's .NET based Graphical User Interface (GUI), Advanced SCADA Functionality, Advanced Alarm Management System, Calculation & Scripting Subsystem, Real-time and Historical Trending, Data Engineering and Maintenance Subsystem, and Automatic Generation Control and Dispatch software products.

OSI was awarded a contract by Lakeland Electric to integrate an Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS).

The OSI system replaces a legacy Siemens EMS system implemented in the 1990s.

The facility for Transelec unifies all of the company’s regional control centers throughout the country, allowing 24 hour surveillance of operations, efficiently and safely.

OSI has been awarded a contract by Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L) to implement an Energy Management System (EMS) based on OSI’s monarch platform.

The new system will replace a legacy system in use for nearly a decade at the RPU plant in Rochester, MN. It will allow improved operations and improved management of electric and water resources.

By Reid Schook Rockwell Automation is controlling the HVAC system at an unnamed oil company in the Athabasca Oil Sands region in Canada.

MEAN provides power supply, transmission and related services to more than 60 communities, one public power district and one joint-action agency in four states: Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska and Wyoming.

Nobody can predict the weather, but Edmonds Community College uses an energy forecasting service to deliver energy efficiency and demand reduction info to twenty facilities on the 50-acre campus.

System integrator Technovator International of Singapore chose Distech Controls as the primary supplier of building management systems (BMS) for Junction Square shopping center in Yangon, Myanmar (Burma).

Siemens deployed its Site Controls Energy Management System (EMS) across 40 Red Robin restaurants, and cut energy consumption by 9 to 15 percent.