It’s the heating season here in North America and that means building operators and controls contractors will soon be scrambling to ensure their heating systems are working properly. 

The control systems we use in commercial buildings today have evolved over the last 30 years to provide systems that are cost effective, and provide good performance. 

Carrier introduced its new TruVu™ multi-purpose control (MPC) platform for monitoring and control of HVAC equipment. The control platform consists of a TruVu™ MPC processor, featuring built-in BACnet routing and integration capabilities, along with expansion modules that can be added to support up to 180 total input/output (I/O) points for a variety of HVAC applications.

Greenheck’s latest addition to its line of Vari-Green® energy control products is the VGD-100+ internal variable frequency drive.

Industry research indicates BACnet has strong global market share and a secure future.

Belimo Americas announced the release of the ZIP Economizer with BACnet connectivity. The company says the enhancement with BACnet will allow seamless integration with a BMS and provide facility managers the ability to easily configure its logic and monitor performance.

Another year has passed for me as an avid observer and designer of BAS. These columns have generally focused on the present and near-term future, good or bad, along with how this has been influenced by the past.

I am often asked why BAS terminology is so confusing, and whether there should be a standard to address this issue.

ASHRAE has assigned its 1,000th vendor ID for its building automation and control networking protocol (BACnet).