LAS VEGAS, Nevada, 26 January 2022: LONMARK International, a non-profit corporation supporting the testing and certification of products, people and companies supporting the ISO/IEC 14908 and ANSI/CTA-709 series of networking standards, shall be offering free education sessions on February 1 during the AHR Expo, from January 31 to February 2 in Las Vegas, the organization said through a Press release. The sessions will take place in Room N232, LONMARK added.

LONMARK, which will be at Booth #C1167 at the exhibition, said it will also be highlighting two new and exciting demos, which it added, will showcase a live version of eViewIoT platform.

eViewIoT is an integrated IoT platform used by leading retailers as well as companies with portfolios of deployed IoT assets to remotely control and monitor, collect data and provide real-time support for key IoT devices and equipment, LONMARK said. Built-in applications can reduce energy consumption, provide proactive alarming/alerting and help in visualising data to the benefit of customers, LONMARK said.

In addition, LonMark said, it will have a remote demo that highlights the following benefits of LonMark web services:

• Multi-protocol data normalization for IoT service access
• Multi-protocol system integration using the open source Node-RED tool
• Multi-protocol system monitoring and control from a BACnet workstation and custom web pages
• Support for local data logging and alarm services

According to LONMARK, the schedule of the education sessions are as follows…  

9am-10am: Building Automation Adapts to the Smart Grid 

In this session, the audience will hear about the latest Smart Grid regulations, which require standardized interface points for diverse appliance types to be ready for the Smart Grid. Increased usage of renewables, stricter carbon limitations and new electricity consumers, amongst other things, require more flexibility on the demand side. Appliances have been a target for several years but no harmonized implementation models have been developed. This session will review the new regulations, the proposed solutions, and the impact on building controls.

– Rolf Bienert, LonMark International

10.30am-11.30am: Why should Smart Cities Demand True Interoperability for Lighting Controls Solutions?

This presentation argues that in the same way as the electricity supply is standardized, so too should the communication protocol be standardized to allow scalability and true interoperability across multiple communication methods and applications. In this way, the technology “decision risk” will be significantly reduced leading to faster and more effective implementation.

– Mark Verheyen, LVX Global

1pm-2pm: Cost Effective IP-Based High-Speed Wireline Communication Technology

Control networks are becoming larger and more complex, placing tremendous demands on the underlying communications technology. System designers need solutions that can deliver higher bandwidths, provide ample overhead for security, support more nodes, and reliably communicate over long distances.

– Michael Navid, MegaChips

2.30pm-3.30pm: Reducing Smart Building Complexity with the Smarter Stack

The complexity inherent in smart buildings can be overwhelming, especially when large numbers of vendors, products and technologies are involved. This session will introduce the recently released, game-changing, open-source Smarter Stack from the Monday Live! Group. The Smarter Stack tool puts order to this complexity by modeling components and their stakeholders onto a single business-centric stack.

– Tracy Markie, Engenuity Systems

4pm-5pm: A New Web Services Standard for Building Controls

This education session will cover the new ANSI/CTA 709.10 web services standard. The session will focus on how integrators can use the new standard to interface existing and new building control networks that use the BACnet or LON protocols to cloud services. The session will include a description of how the ANSI/CTA 709.10 standard provides a common information model and data model for the IoT that enables the construction of digital twins of the physical devices in a building network.

– R ich Blomseth, Dialog, a Renesas Company

According to LONMARK, the following members are sponsors of this year’s education seminars and booth demonstrations: Dialog, a Renesas Company; Engenuity Systems; MegaChips and Smart Controls.