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Jan 21

In: Controls
By: Alan Slabodkin
Date: January 21, 2014
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Echelon to Introduce and Demonstrate Building Industry’s First Multiprotocol System-on-Chip at 2014 AHR Expo

What: Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON), the world’s leading control networking platform provider, will introduce and demonstrate at the 2014 AHR Expo its multiprotocol FT 6050 system on chip (SoC), the first to support both LonWorks® and BACnet® protocols over IP on a single chip. The FT 605...

Jan 08

In: Technology
By: Samy Arbid
Date: January 8, 2014
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Server Environments: In-House vs Cloud

By now many of us have probably heard about “the cloud” in one way or another. However, most of us don’t fully understand what it means and the reason is “the cloud” really doesn’t really refer to anything specifically. This article will not only enlighten you on what this mysterious tec...

Dec 12

In: General
By: Todd Buchanan
Date: December 12, 2013
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Why Fi?

Why is an HVAC contractor blogging about WiFi??? Most of us would probably admit that our lives now inadvertently revolve around our computer and/or cell phone. We can’t deny the fact that electronics and the internet have changed the way we live and how we do business. It’s no surprise that mos...

Oct 27

In: General
By: Mike Gallagher
Date: October 27, 2013
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SCE Extends Time Of Use rates; Utility Bills to Increase

Time of use (TOU) rates used to apply only to large SCE customers. But TOU rates are now being “pushed down” to smaller commercial customers, due to the San Onofre debacle. There are things you can do to reduce the impact on your bill. The key aspect of TOU rates are demand charges. Demand charg...