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What's ahead? With any luck, smoothing out web-based services and a close eye on security.
Another year has passed for me as an avid observer and designer of BAS. These columns have generally focused on the present and near-term future, good or bad, along with how this has been influenced by the past. For this year-end, I'd like to look at my current vision for the future of BAS over the longer term. While pondering this subject, I found it interesting that while my vision has changed over the year, the information that I am basing this on has not changed by very much. Let's hope this means that I am honing in on a more accurate vision of the future of BAS.
CONTROLS/BAS DESIGN, PROGRAMMING, AND DIAGNOSTICS
January's column discussed the importance of ASHRAE Guideline 36P's efforts to develop industry-standard sequences and point lists. However, a related DOE effort is working on the use of the Guideline 36P's sequences as a high-level language that would be unambiguously translated into the machine language for download into BAS controllers. These two developments together will greatly improve the quality/consistency of BAS...