Building Automation Online

This book provides everything readers need to know on direct digital control systems for building automation. It presents an overview of the background and trends essential to evaluating real-time energy system products and services and provides tools for assessing the value of Internet-based features used to promote energy, HVAC, building automation, and open-system products. It also offers a tutorial on hardware, software, and Internet-enabled energy offerings energy managers must understand. Discussions include using technology-based Internet and building control technology as part of a single management tool for full-scale system integration and assessing Internet-based product features.