BACnet User Group November 7, 2017 at BU

September 07, 2017

You are invited to the free BACnet New England user group meeting supported by BACnet International on November 7, 2017 at Boston University. The purpose of the BACnet User Group is to bring together the local BACnet user community twice a year to share tips, techniques and pains on the use of the BACnet products and technologies.

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Here is some information about the event and speakers:

The meeting will be held at the Center for Integrated Life Sciences & Engineering. This $150 million, nine-story, state-of-the-art research facility brings together life scientists, engineers, and physicians from the Medical and Charles River Campuses. The 170,000-square-foot building includes neuroscience research, systems/synthetic biology research, a satellite vivarium, and a cognitive neuroimaging center.

We will have a tour of the building and a brief lecture about BU BACnet experience.

Our main speakers are:

The father of BACnet Mike Newman

As a Fellow and Life Member of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Mike has served on the Research and Technical Committee that supervised the Society's research program and its technical committees; was an officer of TC 1.4, the technical committee on control theory and application; was the chairman of Standard Project Committee 135P which developed the BACnet® building automation and control network communication protocol and was chairman of the follow-on Standing Standard Project Committee, SSPC 135, responsible for interpreting and extending BACnet, up until July 2000. In June of 2003 he received ASHRAE's Standards Achievement Award and in 2010 its Distinguished Service Award.

BACnet IT Working Group convener and the first BACnet Testing Laboratories Manager Jim Butler

Mr. Butler manages the technology development organization and the products business at Cimetrics. He has been with the Company for more than 20 years. Mr. Butler has been an innovator in embedded networking technology for building automation. He has been a significant contributor to the design of the BACnet network protocol (ASHRAE Standard 135), the BACnet test standard (ASHRAE Standard 135.1), and the Facility Smart Grid Information Model (ASHRAE/NEMA Standard 201). In 2000, Mr. Butler established the BACnet Testing Laboratories for the BACnet Manufacturers Association (now BACnet International), and managed its product testing program for six years. Mr. Butler received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Aeronautics & Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Dinner and drinks will be served courtesy of BACnet International!