Fujitsu’s Technical Service Advisors event was held to strengthen manufacturer-distributor relationships and empower in-field technical support staff.

The self-contained HOBO MX1101 wireless data logger, which works with Onset’s free HOBOmobile App for logger setup and data management, enables the user to access data over a 100-foot range, at any time, from an iOS mobile device. 

The HOBO MX1102 data logger records and wirelessly transmits CO₂, temperature, and relative humidity data to mobile devices via Bluetooth Smart.

Many new testing and monitoring products were on display last month at the AHR Expo in Orlando, Florida, where manufacturers showcased and demonstrated their newest, smartest products.

New thermopile sensors save energy and increase safety when applied within the construction and property sectors.

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EPA is counting on increased recovery and reclamation in order to maintain existing HVAC equipment, and finally, the numbers are going in the right direction.

Is reducing a facility's energy consumption by over 130,000 kWh annually through HVAC optimization possible?

With how cutthroat and competitive the HVAC market is, contractors must leverage data-driven insights and technological advancements to drive growth, attract ideal customers, and optimize customer satisfaction.

Commercial heating equipment manufacturers are rolling out new systems that are energy efficient, as well as service friendly for contractors.

Four marketing coaches share what makes an HVAC contractor stand out to potential customers.

The Internet of Things is a broad term with multiple definitions, likely stemming from the different sectors of technology that IoT impacts.

HVAC has a critical role to play in the future of building automation and digitalization.

IEC Systems is a provider of turnkey proprietary and nonproprietary building automation systems (BASs) and a Distech Controls authorized system integrator.

When it comes to this piece of critical infrastructure, operators need to be prepared to face new and sophisticated attacks.

When it comes to comfort, not much beats zoning. In fact, many industry experts tout that once homeowners have experienced the comfort zoning has to offer, they will never own another house without it.

Over a year of research and design went into the 2018 Dealer Design Awards gold-winning product in the Residential Controls category. After listening to feedback from both contractors and consumers for a more basic, easy-to-use, and cost-effective thermostat, Nest created the Nest Thermostat E.

HiberSense Inc. appointed Chris Lawson as channel sales manager for the U.S. market.

This product replaces standard supply registers with sensor-equipped registers that automatically measure each room’s dynamic conditions and optimally balance air distribution throughout the home.

This climate control solution ensures balanced, room-by-room comfort throughout the home.

The project team and property management realized they needed to maximize open space for use by hotel guests. They chose LG’s Multi V™ 5 and Multi V™ S VRF systems, noted for energy efficiency and flexibility in design and installation options.

Contractors have numerous options for offering homeowners solutions in energy management systems.

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Scandinavian green energy startup Aira plans to offer a 10-year service guarantee and a monthly fee that includes installation, maintenance.

Only 4% of homeowners know modern heat pumps can heat down to -4°F. That’s a huge opportunity for HVAC contractors to step in and be the experts.

There are numerous factors for this trend, including energy efficiency, government incentives, and technology improvement. But HVAC contractors are still the boots on the ground in this electrification mission.

In this showcase, The ACHR NEWS introduces the latest cooling equipment available for the upcoming summer season in order to help contractors distinguish between brands.

Hybrid systems offer a pathway that balances environmental concerns with practical considerations, ensuring a more sustainable and feasible transition towards cleaner energy sources.

Every year, The ACHR NEWS introduces the latest heating equipment that is available for the upcoming winter season.

Every year, The ACHR NEWS introduces the latest heating equipment that is available for the upcoming winter season.

If contractors in colder climates focus on educating their customers on what new higher-efficiency furnaces bring to the table, often times the furnaces will sell themselves.

The residential heating showcase is designed to help HVAC contractors learn about the new heating equipment that is available for the upcoming cooler months.

Due to a lack of training, time constraints, and numerous other reasons, many HVAC contracting companies are not performing combustion testing, potentially compromising customers’ safety.

There are plenty of reasons to shut down a potentially dangerous furnace, just make sure the facts back up that decision. 

If contractors don’t have a plan in place to handle red tag furnace second opinions, they can expect some mistakes.

The residential heating showcase is designed to help HVAC contractors learn about the new heating equipment that is available for the upcoming cooler months.

A homeowner in Pickering, Ontario works with an experienced HVAC pro to improve comfort, efficiency, and energy savings with a high-efficiency hydronic forced-air furnace upgrade.

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A very important area for Java are Enterprise Systems. With the advent of new technologies like Ruby on Rails, Java EE 5 or EJB 3 the landscape for Enterprise Systems appears to be changing a lot at the moment. In this episode Markus talks with Eberhard about what Enterprise Java actually is, why and where it is used. Based on that they discuss what the future might look like and how to make Enterprise Java shine in the future.

In this episode Arno and Alex talk about the basics of software development processes. They discuss why and when software development processes are needed and also why some developers don't like them. They discuss the theories behind different processes and talk about defined vs empiric processes in general. This episode is the first in a row that will later on describe specific processes like eXtreme programming or the unified process.

SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) appears to be just another hype - after all we have been building distributed systems for quite a while now. But the real value of SOA is non-technical. In this episode Eberhard and Markus discuss the advantages and disadvantages, what SOA actually is and how it compares to other approaches that have been tried out before.

In this, as well as in the next episode Eberhard and Markus continue their discussion about SOA (the episode got too long, so we had to split it into two ... SOA 2a and SOA 2b). In this episode, we talk about the various perspectives on SOA (CBD, EAI, BPM), about fundamental requirements towards an SOA, and we discuss the role of models in defining sustainable architectures. We also discuss how a programming model based on the described approach typically looks like. We then discuss a number of issues any large-scale SOA faces (and for which the SOA paradigm does not really provide an out-of-the-box solution: In this episode we discuss data type ownership and (weak) typing of data types.

This is the second snippet of the SOA 2 double-episode. Eberhard and Markus continue the discussion with the issue of service reuse and a couple of development process issues. We also look at the duality between infrastructure development and application development in the context of an SOA. We then discuss the great spaghetti misunderstanding :-). We conclude this episode with a look at how to integrate BPM into the conceptual SOA framework we've built up to now, and we'll also briefly skim over a number of technologies related to SOA. Note that this episode, as well as the last one, is based on a set of slides; these can be downloaded from here. This episode covers slides 39 through 74.

In this episode Markus and our Guest Andy Longshaw talk about enterprise architecture. More specifically, we talk about some of the patterns in Andy Longshaw's and Paul Dyson's book Architecting Enterprise Solutions: Patterns for High-Capability Internet-based Systems. These includes things like replication, load balancing, monitoring and application management.