Article: The Convergence of Building Controls, IT

HPAC Engineering

By Thomas Hartman, PE, and Scott Arnold

May 2009

Read the article published online by HPAC Engineering with Brian Dutt, VP Sales & Marketing for Delta Controls taking part in a five-part survey from the perspective of a controls-integrator regarding building automation systems becoming fully integrated with communication and human-interface practices and standards already widely employed on information-technology (IT) networks.

Varying perspectives of usefulness of increasingly common practices For more than a decade, many in the buildings industry have been envisioning a day when building-automation systems (BAS) would become fully integrated with communication and human-interface practices and standards widely employed for information-technology (IT) networks. With the number of those individuals growing and their dream coming closer to reality...[read more]