As this year's winners of the Vision award at BuilConn in Dallas, my wife Jane and I, editors and owners of AutomatedBuildings.com, were presented an award for our vision of whole building integration and interoperability through advocacy, promotion, educational, and training endeavours.
This honor given us, puts the pressure on to keep looking forward beyond the visible horizon and to try to give you the heads up on changes that are likely to shape our industry. I constantly try to bring this information into my ES columns. Digital signage, wireless, the who's and where of good integration solutions - they are all feed stock for my columns and articles.
For this column, I asked Anto Budiardjo, president and CEO of Clasma Events Inc., to provide us some insight into the morphing of his BuilConn show (www.builconn.com/) and what 2006 holds for us. Anto and I have been talking about what changes need to be made to BuilConn to keep it on the forward part of the wave or groundswell in building/IT convergence and intelligent buildings.