February 2022 newsletter

March 01, 2022

Congratulations to our CTO - James Butler - for becoming an ASHRAE Fellow!

James Butler has been an innovator in embedded networking technology for building automation. He was the founding manager of the BACnet Testing Laboratories (BTL) and is currently the convener of the information technology working group within the BACnet committee (ASHRAE SSPC135) which developed BACnet Secure Connect (BACnet/SC).

Under his leadership Cimetrics developed the first commercial third-party BACnet protocol stack and BACnet routers. Learn more here

Analytika Users Forum

Registration is still open for the next Forum!
Thursday, March 24 @ 11am-noon ET

Stay tuned for a focus topic

Last month we started this year with an overview on how to achieve environmental goals with Analytika. Our users learned how to use Cimetrics' ANALYTIKA to achieve their sustainability goals. Analytika experts reviewed common GHG reduction goals and our experts showed how Analytika can be used to meet those goals. Analytika users shared their experiences, approaches, successes and questions with other users and Analytika experts on hand.

Learn more, register, check out previous event recaps, and get notified of future events

Conference & Event News

BACnet Plugfest April 20 - 22, 2022

PlugFest Interoperability Workshop is coming back this year in April 2022! The event will take place April 20 - 22, 2022, directly before the SSPC Committee meetings being held the week of April 25, 2022, in Florida. Learn More here

BACnet Broadcast Management Device BBMD (B3060)

Need to manage the flow of BACnet/IP broadcast messages within a BACnet/IP network that spans multiple IP subnets? Cimetrics BBMD device is designed for complex high-traffic BACnet/IP networks! It features a high capacity, high performance and allows packet capture. Learn more

Monday Live - Uncovering the New Normal in Smart Building
Mondays at 3:00pm - 4:00pm EST

Check out past shows for a live weekly open conversation with industry leaders to help us get through the pandemic and prepare for a new normal in commercial buildings post-COVID.

February discussions included:

Coalition for smarter buildings
Takeaways from last week's AHR Expo in Las Vegas.
Purpose and Operation layers of the Smarter Stack

Watch all the latest talk, or r egister here for next Monday Live! #MondayLive

Cybersecurity Feburary News

Free Cybersecurity Services and Tools, NIST’s new cybersecurity rules are ready for real-world testing, ENISA and CERT-EU publish set of cybersecurity best practices for public and private organizations and more.

The Coalition for Smarter Buildings (C4SB at c4sb.org) is a newly formed organization of building technology thought leaders advocating for the broad deployment of smarter buildings as part of the Biden administration's climate, infrastructure, and workforce agenda.

Energy Efficiency Ratings Aren’t Actually Predicting Energy Efficiency

“There’s often very little connection between modeled and actual energy use. Even in brand new buildings we struggle to make predictions,” according to Prof. David Coley of the University of Bath. Good building design is very important, but once a building is constructed we need to focus on managing its actual energy use. Learn more

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