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ADMMicro - is a unique organization of energy experts, including highly experienced electric utility managers, electrical engineers, facilities engineers, software and database programmers and data network specialists. We have taken the energy monitoring and control capabilities available to the large-box operators and engineered a small and powerful line of controllers which provides total energy management - at a price point that delivers positive ROI in less than two years - for facilities as small as 1,500-square feet. We have systematically tested and verified our designs with a long list of retail, fast food, convenience store and government facilities. We constantly refine and customize our solutions based on feedback from facilities managers. This feedback allows us to refine the flexibility and customization of our solutions. Find out how your company can significantly improve your bottom line with Efficiency Solutions You Can Count On.
Advisory Board: No.
Also listed at: Energy - Efficiency Page.
Locations: Roanoke, Virginia.
People: http://www.admmicro.com/about/about_executive_team.asp
Website: http://www.admmicro.com
Advanced Energy - is a North Carolina and national resource that focuses on industrial process technologies, motors and drives testing, and applied building science. Our facility houses state-of-the-art laboratories, where we perform testing and applied research in all three of these evolving disciplines. The company Mission is to create economic, environmental and societal benefits through innovative and market-based approaches to energy issues. For utilities, this means developing programs and services to benefit their customers. For industries, it means testing new equipment, helping develop new products and improving manufacturing processes. For the building industry, we help builders, developers and mechanical contractors improve homes, their industry and commercial buildings. For North Carolina's ratepayers, we offer cleaner energy options and energy savings.
Locations: Raleigh, North Carolina.
Website: http://www.advancedenergy.org
Advanced Telemetry - founded in September 2007 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Advanced Telemetry is enabling energy resource conservation and resultant reductions in carbon dioxide emissions and energy bills through its proprietary EcoView line of energy and resource usage, management and conservation products. The EcoView product line embodies Advanced Telemetry's corporate belief that change in energy wasting consumption habits can only occur if the result of these habits is visible to energy users in real time. As such, the EcoView product line includes a real time, data filled touchscreen that enables users to observe and take immediate action to address excessive resource consumption.
Investor: 21Ventures - Energy - Capital - Venture Capitalists Page. Locations: New York, New York.
Locations: Larkspur, California.
People: http://www.advancedtelemetry.com/about.html
Website: http://www.advancedtelemetry.com/about.html
Arch Rock - is a pioneer in IP-based wireless sensor network technology and provides products that bridge the physical and digital worlds. Our open, standards-based approach and real-world know-how make us uniquely capable of delivering solutions that combine data from the physical world with state-of-the-art technology.
Also listed on: Energy - Communications Systems Page.
Also listed on: Energy - Monitoring Page.
Locations: San Francisco, California.
Website: http://www.archrock.com/
Also listed on: Energy - Monitoring Page.
Architectural Energy Corporation - will lead the transition to a sustainable, high
performance built environment.
Sustainable, high performance built environments enhance the comfort, health, well being, and
productivity of building occupants in an energy efficient and environmentally responsive manner,
using innovative and appropriate technologies and design, construction, and operation processes over
the lifetime of the building.
Locations: Boulder, Colorado.
Acquired by: UTC Power - Energy - Fuel Cell Page. Locations: South Windsor, Connecticut.
Website:
http://www.archenergy.com
Automated Energy - empowers businesses to know and understand their energy consumption usage, enterprise wide, and to make the best possible business decisions based on that knowledge. Whether its real-time metering, real-time monitoring and control, asset aggregation, verification, hourly pricing curtailment, risk management, distributed assets valuation or creating new revenue streams, Automated Energy insures businesses success by leveraging technology to provide that critical information link to make educated and timely decisions.
Locations: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Website: http://www.automatedenergy.com/aei/company/factSheet.jsp
Cimetrics - has a corporate history of developing technologies targeted at embedded networking. We have been a pioneer in open system communication for building automation for more than 10 years. By developing and promoting BACnet, the world’s standard building automation protocol, Cimetrics established itself as the premier supplier of communication technology to the building automation industry.
Locations: Boston, Massachusetts.
Website: http://www.cimetrics.com
Computrols - is a privately held corporation based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Computrols designs, manufactures and services state-of-the-art building automation systems throughout the U.S. and abroad. With over 25 years in the industry, Computrols has established a solid reputation as a leader in automation systems for large facilities.
Locations: New Orleans, Louisiana.
Website: http://www.computrols.com
Comverge - Energy - Demand Response Page. Also, involved in building automation.
Connected Energy - Energy - Communications Networks Page. Also, involved in building automation.
Dome-Tech - provides engineering/technical services, energy consulting, project development and implementation for buildings and facilities. Everything we do centers around optimizing building performance and operations, reducing energy expenses and improving indoor environmental quality.
Draintree Networks - Energy - Home Automation Page. Locations: Fremont, California. Also, involved with building automation.
Echelon - is a pioneer and world leader in control networks, which connect machines and other electronic devices; embedded control networks, which are networks inside machines that connect tiny sensors and actuators that comprise the workings of a machine; and smart metering, a next-generation utility infrastructure for automated metering and other utility services. Partners: EnerNoc. Website.
Ember - mission is to be the leading provider of wireless sensor and control network technologies that enable dramatic energy efficiency improvements for businesses, homes, and the utilities that serve them. Ember’s ZigBee wireless networking systems - chips, software and tools - enable Energy Technologies - enertech – help consumers, businesses and utilities to better manage energy resources, save cost and preserve the environment. This technology holds enormous promise to positively impact the environment and management of energy demand, while improving comfort and safety in buildings and homes.
Also listed at: Energy - Home Automation Page.
Website. Board Of Directors. Management. Locations: Boston, Massachusetts. *
Green Energy Options (GEO) - Energy - Home Automation Page. Locations: Cambridge, England. Also, building automation.
EnerNOC - Energy - Demand Response Page. Also, involved in building automation.
Gaia Power Technologies - Energy - Storage Page. Battery backup solutions.
Genea - Our Building Optimization Solutions provide owners with a web-enabled technology platform that controls energy consumption and business processes beyond the traditional zone level. In doing so, they help building owners to address issues like lost revenue opportunities, energy waste, lack of traceability and tenant dissatisfaction.
Locations: Yorba Linda, California
People:
http://www.geneaenergy.com/doug-schneider/
Website:
http://www.geneaenergy.com/
GridLogix - Energy - ESCOs Page. Also, involved in building automation.
Honeywell - has a building automation and controls business. Website.
iMonitorEnergy - business is to control and reduce energy, the third largest expense to business. We do this by monitoring all energy components, analyzing usage, and providing specific recommendations for our customers to reduce their energy use in real-time. iMonitorEnergy can act as Program Manager to recommend and arrange installation of any necessary meters, controls and software for any building to manage, control and reduce their energy use. We will also act as Energy Manager for those customers that do not have an energy-trained staff. We are best known for reducing and optimizing energy use in commercial, government and industrial buildings, but we offer other energy- specific services including load shedding and curtailment.
Locations: Lake Forest, California
Website: http://www.imonitorenergy.com
Invensys - Energy - Home Automation Page. Many - http://www.invensys.com/contact_us/global_locations.asp Also, provides building automation products. See
Johnson Controls - their building efficiency business provides solutions for operating buildings effectively and efficiently. Our products and services include HVAC&R equipment and control systems, industrial refrigeration, fire and security systems, and services for commercial, industrial and residential buildings. Our focus is to increase a building’s energy efficiency and operational performance.
Locations: http://www.johnsoncontrols.com/publish/us/en/products/building_efficiency/worldwide_locations.html
Stock: (NYSE: JCI) http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=jci
Website: http://www.johnsoncontrols.com
Lime Energy - energy efficiency solutions allow clients to spend dramatically less on energy and building operations. They produce less waste, allowing a cleaner natural environment. And they enable a more comfortable and productive physical environment.
Board Of Directors: http://www.lime-energy.com/about/directors.php
Locations: Elk Grove Village (Chicago), Illinois.
People: http://www.lime-energy.com/about/management.php
Website: http://www.lime-energy.com
Lucid Design Group - is the pioneer in an emerging industry that provides information feedback to teach, inspire change and save resources. Started by a diverse team with backgrounds in education, software engineering and graphic arts, Lucid was born in one of the first modern green buildings in the United States. Now, nearly five years later, thousands of people live and work in buildings and homes equipped with Building Dashboard®.
Locations: San Francisco, California.
Website: http://www.luciddesigngroup.com
Mach
Energy - has applied its knowledge of electric utilities, tariffs and rates, advanced
metering technologies and software development to produce its popular Asset
Manager™
solution. The MACH AssetManager
is a web-based tool that owners and operators of buildings use to measure, manage and control
electricity costs for their portfolios across a multitude of markets and utility jurisdictions
across the country.
Board Of Directors: http://www.machenergy.com/about/board.php
Locations: San Francisco, California.
People: http://www.machenergy.com/about/team.php
Website: http://www.machenergy.com
Melink Corporation - is a leader in energy efficiency and renewable energy solutions for commercial, institutional, and residential buildings. Our mission is to promote best practices in sustainable design and to inspire others by our example. Since 1987 the company has grown to serve many of the largest restaurant, supermarket, hotel, and retail chains in the U.S. and world. This allows us to reduce the energy footprint of thousands of new and existing buildings every year.
Locations: Milford, Ohio (near Cincinnati)
Website: http://www.melinkcorp.com/
Novar - has been delivering savings to multi-site retailers across the country through energy and operational management for more than 20 years. It is one of the largest global energy management firms with capabilities ranging from installing intelligent building control systems—Novar's operations team executes thousands of installations a year on time and on budget—to full Solution Center support for monitoring and using those systems effectively. Novar’s business is focused on the retail sector, and its installed systems and supporting services are currently used in the facilities of the nation’s leading retail establishments. No firm can deliver the level of performance and cost-effective data management, analysis, and proactive energy management operation strategies that Novar can when dealing with its own systems. Novar is part of Honeywell International, a $26 billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with energy management solutions, aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty materials.
Locations: Cleveland, Ohio.
Website: http://www.novar.com
Noveda
Technologies - provides a web-based, dynamic, graphic visualization solution for real-time
monitoring, diagnostics, metrics, and historical tracking of renewable energy, conventional energy,
and building mechanical / environmental systems. Noveda Technologies energy and building systems'
monitoring provides a critical tool for dramatically improving energy efficiency; allowing
substantial cost savings, reducing systems maintenance, increasing ROI, identifying / tracking
/ significantly decreasing a building's greenhouse gas emissions and carbon footprint
while providing an exciting platform for communicating these efforts and achievements to customers,
clients, employees, and the general public.
Locations: Branchburg,
New Jersey.
Website:
http://www.noveda.com
NovusEdge - Customers who used NovusEdge Energy Management solution reported lowering energy costs by more than 20% immediately. The system will continue to reduce energy consumption in subsequent years as system intelligence accumulates. NovusEdge software draws input from security systems, automated building controls and IT systems to add unique, actionable intelligence to the IT network. The system knows where and when energy is required for lighting, heating, cooling and ventilation, and when it is not. It tracks the location of people and assets. It automates efficiency at an unprecedented level.
Locations: Austin, Texas.
Website: http://www.novusedge.com
Optimum Energy - develops networked building control applications and products to reduce energy consumption in commercial buildings. Our groundbreaking integrated solutions reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases while increasing operating efficiencies in HVAC plants with no effect on occupant comfort. We offer HVAC performance applications and products based on the patented Hartman technologies. These technologies represent a radical change to current best practice methods employed by the industry. Our approach is based on smart networking of building control components to optimize plant operation, a totally new approach to HVAC management. Our All Variable Speed All Variable Flow technologies have consistently produced 30% to 50% energy reductions for leading edge building owners and managers. Real-time web-based monitoring and reporting verifies energy savings and provides predictive maintenance information.
Locations: Seattle, Washington.
People: http://www.optimumenergyco.com/about.html
Website: http://www.optimumenergyco.com/
PowerIT -
Demand Response Page.
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Prenova - Energy - ESCO Page. Also in building automation.
Richards-Zeta - is a global leader in Intelligent Building Systems (IBS) that capitalize on the market dynamics involving the convergence of building systems and IT over IP and serve to help solve the world’s global dilemma of balancing our continuing thirst for energy with our newly acknowledged requirement to better our environment. Website.
Schneider Electric - Energy - Distribution Page. Also in building automation - Webpage.
Siemens - Energy - Industry - Suppliers. Also in building automation.
Spinwave Systems - makes energy savings programs affordable with wireless sensors and controls. Monitor and control your building's energy usage using our highly scalable and customizable solutions. The minute it's installed, wireless energy management technology from Spinwave can start reducing your carbon footprint and provide you with significant energy cost savings.
Locations: Burlington, Massachusetts.
Website: http://www.spinwavesystems.com
Tangible Software - MD-based enterprise software and services company that provides cutting-edge services, products, and customizable solutions for clients throughout the U.S and the world. Significant experience in energy management software. Website *
Tridium - Energy - Communications Networks Page. Also, involved in building automation.
Resources
AutomatedBuildings.com - an on line magazine and web resource providing the news, as well as connection to the exciting and rapidly evolving industry that automates large buildings. We have become the industries B2B web site providing connection for all new and existing automated building industry stakeholders. Website.
CABA - (The) Continental Automated Buildings Association - is North America's only industry association dedicated to providing information, education and networking opportunities relating to home and building automation.
Website: http://www.caba.org/aboutus/index.html
ControlGlobal.com - On-line resource of Control Magazine. Website.
OASIS - The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is a global consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of e-business and web service standards. Members of the consortium decide how and what work is undertaken through an open, democratic process.
Reports:
Effect of Heat and Electricity Storage and Reliability on Microgrid Viability: A Study of Commercial Buildings in California and New York States.
http://www.EnergyCollection.com/Energy-Building-Automation/Effect-Of-Storage-On-Microgrids.pdf
Standards
BACnet - is a Data Communications Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks. It is an ASHRAE, ANSI, and ISO standard protocol.
Website: http://www.bacnet.org
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bacnet
LonMark - An open interoperable revolution is underway in the controls industry and one organization is taking the lead in helping companies deliver open, interoperable products: LonMark International. Supported by a who's-who of controls companies, LonMark International counts among its members not only the manufacturers fueling this revolution but also the end-users, equipment specifiers, and system integrators driving its implementation.
Website: http://www.lonmark.org
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LonWorks
oBIX - (for Open Building Information Exchange) is a standard for Web Services-based interfaces to building control systems. Building control systems include those electrical and mechanical systems that operate inside a building, including Heating and Cooling, Security, Power Management, and Life/Safety Alarms that are in nearly all buildings as well as the myriad of special purpose systems that may be tied to particular buildings such as A/V Event Management, Theatre Lighting, Medical Gas Distribution, Fume Hoods, and many others.
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBIX
OPC Foundation - OPC is open connectivity in industrial automation and the enterprise systems that support industry. Interoperability is assured through the creation and maintenance of open standards specifications. There are currently seven standards specifications completed or in development. Based on fundamental standards and technology of the general computing market, the OPC Foundation adapts and creates specifications that fill industry-specific needs. OPC will continue to create new standards as needs arise and to adapt existing standards to utilize new technology.
Locations: Scottsdale, Arizona.
Website: http://www.opcfoundation.org
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