HVAC, Smart Building, and Building Automation Controls Experts Ken Smyers and Eric Stromquist bring you the latest in energy saving strategies, control news and all the things you need to know to make your buildings smarter and greener.

ControlTalk NOW  The Smart Building Podcast January 4, 2015

ControlTalk NOW week ending June 21, 2015 continues its coverage of the Realcomm|IBcon Event 2015, themed Real Change Right Now. The prophetic words of Bran Ferren still echo. &nbsp;Are our once purposeful sensibilities and instincts now strangling our futures? Probably! Driverless vehicles will change buildings, real estate, highways, pollution rates, and cityscapes. Watch the Realcomm general session highlights, and more insightful industry and solution interviews with John Petze, Dan Probst, and Marc Petock.
&lt;a href="http://controltrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/John-P.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://controltrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/John-P-300x171.png" alt="John P" width="300" height="171" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-19205" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://controltrends.org/2015/06/john-petze-at-realcomm-ibcon/"&gt;Conference Live: John Petze &lt;/a&gt;at 2015 Realcomm|IBcon. I had a chance to catch up with &lt;a href="http://www.skyfoundry.com/"&gt;Sky Foundry&rsquo;s John Petze&lt;/a&gt; at the 2015 Realcomm|IBcon conference in San Antonio. Key interview take-aways are that the state of building analytics has improved significantly since 2011. As John says, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s impossible to monitor data and system operations manually.&rdquo; Successful deployment of analytics results in increased comfort, reduced costs, and energy savings.
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&lt;a href="http://controltrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/RealC.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://controltrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/RealC-300x171.png" alt="RealC" width="300" height="171" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-19208" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://controltrends.org/2015/06/video-2015-real-comm-ibcon-general-session/"&gt;Watch the 2015 Real Comm IBcon General Session&lt;/a&gt;!If you didn&rsquo;t get to &lt;a href="http://www.realcomm.com/realcomm-2015/"&gt;2015 RealComm|IBcon&lt;/a&gt; in San Antonio &mdash; and you missed out on the incredible 2-day visionary voyage of Real Change &ndash; Right Now, this general session video captures, in small part, the enormous importance and depth of the event. Tridium&rsquo;s Nino DiCosmo and John Sublett, and a host of industry experts spoke, and the dazzling Bran Ferren, a virtual Edison incarnate, delivered an amazing keynote presentation.
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&lt;a href="http://controltrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-18-at-2.07.19-PM.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://controltrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Screen-Shot-2015-06-18-at-2.07.19-PM-300x171.png" alt="Screen Shot 2015-06-18 at 2.07.19 PM" width="300" height="171" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-19218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://controltrends.org/2015/06/contemporary-controls-bascontrol20-firmware-version-3-1-released/"&gt;Contemporary Controls BAScontrol20&lt;/a&gt; Firmware Version 3.1 Released.Contemporary Controls recently released firmware version 3.1 for the BAScontrol20 Sedona Open Unitary Controller. Built on the Sedona Framework, &lt;a href="http://www.ccontrols.com/"&gt;Contemporary Controls&lt;/a&gt; has developed more than 100 custom Sedona components which complement the standard Tridium-developed Sedona 1.2 components that reside within the device.&nbsp;
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&lt;a href="http://controltrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/JLL.png"&gt;&lt;img src="http://controltrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/JLL-300x171.png" alt="JLL" width="300" height="171" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-19223" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://controltrends.org/2015/06/dan-probst-jones-lang-lasalle-explains-intellicommand/"&gt;2015 Conference Live: Dan Probst&lt;/a&gt; of Jones Lang Lasalle Explains IntelliCommand.I had a chance to catch up with Dan Probst at the 2015 Realcomm|IBcon conference. Dan is the Chairman &ndash; Energy and Sustainability Services for &lt;a href="http://www.us.jll.com/united-states/en-us/"&gt;Jones Lang LaSalle&lt;/a&gt;. Dan helps real estate companies reduce energy...