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- Background (60)
- Basics (23)
- BIM (36)
- Construction (2)
- Data Center (9)
- Decomposition & Disintegration (2)
- Design (11)
- EBMS (8)
- Electric Cars (9)
- Emergency Management (1)
- Emergency Response (6)
- EMIX (3)
- Energy (42)
- Enterprise Interaction (55)
- Geospatial Information (2)
- GridWise (4)
- Intelligent Buildings (42)
- Markets and Innovation (97)
- Microgrids and Distributed Systems (60)
- Musings (16)
- oBIX (7)
- Ontology (10)
- Privacy (4)
- Re-thinking things (37)
- Schedules (11)
- Security (17)
- Security Systems (4)
- Services (12)
- Smart Energy (2)
- Smart Grid (92)
- Sparseness (1)
- Standards (79)
- Synergies (20)
- System Architecture (68)
- Weekend Fun (9)
- WS-Calendar (7)
- Zero Energy Buildings (30)
Entries by Title
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- Scheduling Resources and Operations with BIM
- The Path to Smart Energy
- Podcasting Open Source Smart Energy
- Sharing Agendas with Buildings and Other Things
- Planning for Abundance
- Schedule & Commissioning and the Future of LEED
- Operational BIM Schedules and Pre-Design Programming
- Bootstrapping Smart Energy
- Smart Energy: Some references and guideposts for Implementers
- Efficiency, Resilience, and Smart Energy
- They're back
- Profiling ICalendar for Transactions
- Profiling ICalendar for Transactions
- Forget Efficiency and Demand Response, Load Bank for the Grid
- Smart Energy in Industry: Introducing MRP4
- Making Smart Energy Less Exceptional
- Converging with the Internet of Things
- BSI Part 3: The Metadata Problem
- BSI Part 2: What is the Building System Interface?
- BSI Part 1: What is the Building System Interface?
- Understanding Inheritance in WS-Calendar
- BSI and a blast from the past
- I like a Winter Morning
- Ready for the BSI
- Coming to Terms with EMIX
- Energy Market Information and Schedules
- What buildings have to say to smart grids
- Continuous programming for Smart Energy Buildings
- Building Codes for the Smart Grid Ready Home
- The view from 400 miles, and 100 years away
- EnergyStar 2.0 Interfaces and Enterprise Interaction
- Moving beyond Demand Response (DR) – Pricing Services
- Privacy Mosaic: Tiling over the Fourth Amendment Piece by Piece
- Underpinnings for standardizing Demand Response (DR)
- Smart Buildings & Smart Energy: the Integration Challenge
- Privacy Rights, Operational Data, and the US Government
- What is an internet of energy?
- Doing things at the right time
- Lessening the Integration Barrier to Smart Energy
- Punch and Judy and Energy Usage
- Microgrids Big and Small
- Has the Plug-In Vehicle’s time ended before it began?
- Spam & Smart Grid Operations, Privacy & Civil Rights
- Charles Raymond Patrick Considine, RIP
- Smart grids will get worse, so dumb buildings must get smarter
- Idle Thoughts on Smart Grids
- Answering the call
- Smart Operations are a necessary part of Smart Energy. Maybe GBXML is, too.
- The Fourth Amendment and Smart Grids
- Bio-batteries, Bio-Generation, and Pervasive Energy
- Distributed Energy Grids can use Diverse Energy Storage
- Risky Business – Removing barriers to Free Energy
- Energy Privacy
- Sharing Energy Information within the End Node
- A Microgrid of One
- Small standards for small things
- Standards for energy engagement and autonomous response (3b of 3)
- Coordinating Energy Use and Supply (3a of 3)
- Two Paths to Smart Energy in DC (2 of 3)
- Smart Grid Blood on the Floor in DC (1 of 3)
- How should green builders prepare for smart grids?
- Energy Collisions and Autonomous Appliances
- Scheduling our Things, Scheduling our Lives
- Collaborative Energy: Smart Grids and Intelligent Buildings together
- Smart buildings are more important than smart grids
- Data centers are just the start of unsustainable IT
- The price of energy
- Monday Morning at the Smart Grid SDO Workshop
- Plumbing and the Man about the Net Zero House
- General Relativity and Control Systems Standards
- Parsimony and Security
- Virginia Tech, Emergency Communications, and Academic Sheep
- Cybersecurity for smart buildings and the smart grid
- Collaborative Energy—the Smart Grid and the End Node
- Do we really need "IP Everywhere" in the smart grid?
- Schedules for Things and Markets
- Intelligent Buildings talk to Smart Energy
- Smart Cars At Loose on the Smart Grid
- Smart Cars at Home on the Smart Grid
- Transactive Energy and Little White Lies
- New Energy and Legacy Buildings
- We need a BIM Lite
- Smoke Signals from the Energy Architecture workshop
- The Smart Grid is Not Faster RTUs
- Pervasive Security and Control Systems
- What is the smart grid
- IP Everywhere, or Just About
- A Caffeinated view of Aging Energy Infrastructure
- The Impulse to Run Around Naked
- Cyborg Beetles, Cyber-security, Smart Buildings, and the Smart Grid
- Cyber Security for the Grid
- Cargo Cult Energy
- What if the Smart Grid had Reliable Generation
- Standards Roadmap for the Smart Grid (SGIX) (v2)
- Why do we need all these smart meters?
- What Standards do we need for the Smart Grid (SGIX)
- Energy Interoperability Standards: Smart Buildings, Smart Grid
- Lord of the HAN: One Agent to Rule them All
- Watered-Down Energy
- Demand and Emergency Responses
- Nuclear Zombies and the Smart Grid
- Energy, Innovation, and E-Tech
- Smart Buildings, Smart Energy, and the Road Ahead
- Coordinating Time and Energy
- Working with the Wind in Chicago
- Natural Gas and Perfect Power
- The Talmud and the Smart Grid
- Packing Peanuts and Corn Ethanol
- A pricing Service for Electricity
- Gamboling through the Clouds
- Smartgrid Basics: The Demand Side Problem
- Smartgrid Basics: The Supply Side Problem
- Whither Grid Standards
- EBMS Takes its First Steps
- To Market, To Market to Buy a Fat Watt
- The Sound of Breaking Glass
- An Evolutionary Composite Services Framework for Energy
- Distributed Generation and Lightweight Integration
- The Song of Atlanta
- Enterprise to Grid in Atlanta
- DC, Service, and Bacteria
- Flying home from yet another meeting
- Highlights from the FIATECH Member Meeting
- How to Enable the Energy Revolution
- Thomas Friedman and "The End of Green"
- SCADA Security, Building Systems, and First Response
- Buildings, Emergency Response, and Situation Awareness
- BIM, Services, and Emergency Response
- Enterprise Interactions for Physical Security
- Emergency Response and Building Intelligence
- Enterprise Integrated Security
- When do you want that?
- Divvying Up Grid Interoperability
- Free markets are Live Markets
- The New Privacy Advocates
- Standards Buzz: WS-DD, DP, IPSO, et and Internet 0
- She never wants an Electric Car
- Canute, Energy, and Natural Laws
- Interfaces for the Power Grid
- It’s not Use Cases, it’s Interaction Patterns
- It’s all too cheap!
- Embbedded commerce heats up
- B2B2B2B
- Tomatoes and Energy
- Business Exchanges on the Grid
- Clouds and Rain
- Welcome to the TAB
- Weekend Reading on Smart Homes
- We have the PAN where’s the PAG?
- Ontological requirements of the service oriented grid
- Connecting the Services to Value
- Comments on this blog
- Algal Biodiesel Virtuous Cycles
- Service enabling Telecommunications – lessons for Buildings and Grid
- Home Automation: Bad choices and poor experiences
- Distinguishing Building Service Semantics from Ontologies
- Abstract, yes, but which abstractions…
- Social interactions will define success of Electric Cars
- Electric Cars will not be useful for Demand-Response
- Decomposing Services
- Why BIM, Why Now
- Open Source oBIX advances
- Biodiesel Algae for the Building
- Busy day on the Standards Front
- RealComm in San Diego coming up
- EBMS the Next Time – Agents and Enterprise Interactions
- No special Demand-Response plan for the data center
- Edison was Right – or – Green up with DC
- Back to Silicon Valley
- SaaS and Power and Service Oriented Energy
- Whatever happened to oBIX?
- Unveiling the Unseen World at UNC
- Service Oriented Physical Security
- Service enabling Telecommunications – lessons for Buildings and Grid
- Semantic Assembly of Business Projects
- Service Performance and Compliance
- Organizing System Behaviors
- Reflecting on a full life
- OpenADR must respond to future demands
- The Ontology *is* the Business
- Ontology of Building Service Performance
- Gourmet Sustainability
- Who said that?
- The knowledge problem of building systems and energy markets
- Development & Planning with Google Earth
- Field BIM: RFID and the transformation of the Job Site
- Equipment Information Exchange: AEX at FIATECH
- Cognitive functions, Autonomy, and Integration
- Knowing ones place in the fabric
- Performance and Service
- Getting excited about FIATECH next week.
- Give me a Compliant Agent
- Interoperate or Fade Away
- Looking Ahead: The Self Maintaining, Self Repairing Facility
- Informational Interoperability
- Energy Storage and Conversion
- Alternative Energy and the Giant Robot
- Steam-Punk Data Centers
- Human Heat Pumps
- Thinking about Thinking about Turkey Point
- Fitting controls into buildingSmart
- Feeling past today’s interfaces
- AC/DC without the wailing
- Some things that should be Easy (but aren’t yet)
- Building Systems as Economic Actors
- Data Centers aren’t anything special.
- When will an Android run your Building?
- Soft and Gooey won’t Hold Back the Night
- Water & Power
- Safety Net for Zero Net Energy Buildings
- Beyond Efficiency, Beyond Sustainability
- WS-Are-We-There-Yet
- Can BIM really transform our processes?
- The Inevitable Dumbing Down of Building Systems
- Open Design goes public with BIMstorm LAX
- Heading to New York
- More on Energy Shorts and Control
- Drop your Energy Shorts in California
- Sun and Clouds
- Building Operations get Sassy
- Kombikraftwerk - energy reliability through diversity
- The long hiatus
- No Yawns this time
- Aligning Time, Space, and Energy
- And the winner is….Thermal storage (for now)
- Not just Sensors and Schedules
- Sustaining Sustainability
- Building Expert Folksonomy
- Storage and the Failure of Energy Markets.
- Discovering the Unseen World through Standards
- Turn-Over and Operations of the NBIMS Building
- Carbon Sequestration to Improve Energy Yields
- It’s the Little Things
- What the Owner should know about NBIMS during Building Design and Construction
- Building Information Modeling (BM, BIM, and NBIMS)
- EBMS – Slogging through the Details
- Extreme Integration
- Abstract the Interfaces
- Grid-Interop was great!
- I don’t want much.
- Thinking about what I want
- Lifecycle Data Management and Information Integration
- Pumpkins on the Bridge
- The Case for oBIX in Laboratory systems
- Getting Past the Alligators
- Sloppy Wet in Carolina
- IT is the One Department that Can’t Afford to Miss This Boat.
- Looking where it is easier to see
- Bouncer or Prison Guard?
- Biological Patterns for Systems Control
- How do you buy a Green Volt?
- ZEB – Shifting Power Consumption in Zero Energy Buildings
- ZEB - Zero Energy Buildings explained
- Understanding the full costs of Corn Ethanol
- Shedding old habits is the Hardest Task
- EBMS – Bringing the EBMS Project to life
- EBMS – Design Decisions for the UNC Enterprise Building Management System
- EBMS – Why we built the UNC Enterprise Building Management System
- Abstract for Grid-Interop
- Looking Ahead: Evolution of the End Node
- Solar Thermal Comes Out of the Dark (or is that in from the cold?)
- Something’s Gotta Give
- Fred Houk - Thoughts under the Shade Tree
- Secure this Building!
- Big Decisions and Big Process
- Energy Storage at the Home and Office
- oBIX – Why have an Enterprise Interface to Control Systems?
- What the Programmer needs to know about Architecture (SOA 3)
- Services and Mouse Traps
- Applying Service Orientation to Engineered Systems (SOA 2)
- Software Architects and Architecture (SOA 1)
- Location, Location, Location
- Artificially Intelligent Grid?
- Getting from Registers to Ontologies
- Corporate Transparency and Energy Boondoggles.
- Transfer Autonomy to the End User
- EnergyStar Systems and Data Centers
- Information Stewardship
- AMR, AMI, and Autonomy
- NBIMS and Enterprise Interfaces
- Why The Enterprise needs Building System Information
- Software Factories and Building Systems
- Other People’s Money and Poor Decisions
- Ausable Chasm and Personal Action
- Ambient Information and Behavior Changes
- Managing the Impulse for Control
- Changes in State
- Dive in - Systems Surround us like Water
- XML is not enough to create an Enterprise Interface
- AMI doesn’t make much difference without fundamental process change
- Transformation through Interoperability
- It’s Too Hot to Finish Anything
- Hospitals and Control Systems Data
- Do you choose Incrementalism or Markets?
- POE: Who’s using the Power?
- Grid Interop Coming up
- Treating Systems like Components
- Lurkers – Time to Give Back
- Stovepipe Processes and Construction
- Data Driven Enterprise and Innovative Buildings.
- Microgrid - Black Island Style
- I may have to try out Second Life after all
- Would you use SVG or XAML?
- Are you looking ahead to the Grid-Interop?
- Can you afford to not require building models?
- How far off are Self Maintaining, Self-Repairing Facilities
- Invisible and Uncontrollable
- What if you owned an intelligent building?
- Second Generation Outsourcing
- Products We Almost Bought
- Six Sigma Solutions don’t work unless you have six sigma problems
- The Argument for Market change: Case Closed.
- Making Decisions when Everyone Lies
- The Big Picture on Energy and Carbon
- Still Waiting. . .(part 3)
- Diversity in Grease
- What if you had choice? (Homeowner version)
- BIM, COBIE, and Facilities Best Practices
- Diversity is the Key
- What Kind Of Power do you have?
- How is a Control System like a Database?
- The Green Grid
- IT starts to think about Facilities
- One bus, one wire may not be a good idea.
- Invisible and Uncontrollable
- What Good is LEED Certification?
- Still Waiting. . .(part 2)
- Discoverable Abstract Interfaces
- Let's Make Energy Models Relevant
- Still Waiting. . .
- Principles of Networked Electronics and Energy Efficiency
- oBIX and Green Buildings
- Daedalus: Architect, Engineer, Craftsman
- Security: the path to service
- Facilities Systems Integrators
- Time for Pervasive Security?
- oBIX Standard Update to CABA
- Follow-Up on Pigs, Trail Mix, and Carbon
- Pigs, Trail Mix, and Carbon
- Energy Demand Management and the Home
- Thanks to the Council
- Quick Update from Connectivity Week
- Can’t Build to Design
- Virtual Home Maintenance and Operation
- Tardif on BIM
- Too Much Integration
- Off to Chicago
- Spending and Spending Some More
- So many Grid Reforms, so little time...
- The End of the Bottom Line
- SOA and Controls go to the movies
- A chance to do it right
- To HAVE and to Have Not
- Service must trump Process
- GridWise and Smaller Dams
- SOA in the Synapses
- Synapses between the Standards.
- It's about Growing Up
- Beyond Carbon Trading – Toward an Ontology of Power
- Surfaces – the kind of Abstractions I like best
- Adding Service Orientation to Large Semantic Projects
- It’s not your system
- Intelligent Grids need Intelligent Buildings
- More than One Control System per Building
- Why Control Systems need Interfaces
- Starting New Daedalus
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- February 2012 (1)
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- November 2011 (2)
- August 2011 (1)
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- March 2011 (1)
- February 2011 (2)
- January 2011 (6)
- December 2010 (2)
- November 2010 (1)
- October 2010 (3)
- September 2010 (2)
- August 2010 (4)
- July 2010 (2)
- June 2010 (1)
- May 2010 (2)
- April 2010 (1)
- March 2010 (2)
- February 2010 (4)
- January 2010 (3)
- December 2009 (2)
- November 2009 (4)
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- December 2007 (6)
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