GE Lighting and Trane, a brand of Ingersoll Rand, have announced a new way for building owners to control the largest consumers of energy in commercial buildings — HVAC and lighting — with a combined solution for energy management.

A drive for cost savings and energy efficiency has brought a wave of new players and capabilities into the building automation market, according to ABI Research. Rather than competing directly with the giants of the established building automation market, these new entrants are bringing additional managed data services.

LodgeNet Healthcare, a leading provider of integrated patient communication solutions, announced that its environmental control project with Siemens Industry Inc.’s Building Technologies Division has gone live at Maple Grove Hospital in Maple Grove, Minn.

Constellation, a business unit of Exelon, announced that Constellation’s VirtuWatt™ Link web services application is now available with the Opus Building Automation System (BAS) by Novar, a Honeywell business unit and a leading provider of multi-site energy management solutions.

Horizontal configurations of variable-speed water-source heat pumps designed for commercial applications are available. The models feature sizes up to 5 tons and complement existing vertical models in the Trane Axiom™ variable-speed portfolio.

Automated Logic Corp. (ALC) is providing critical building monitoring and control for the new High-Performance Computing Research Center (HPCRC) at Princeton University. The facility is one of only nine high-performance data centers in the world to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification.

The WattNode BACnet meter (MS/TP) is a cost-effective energy and power metering solution for building automation systems using the BACnet protocol, states the company. It complements the company’s Modbus® and LonWorks® meters.

Constellation, a business unit of Exelon, has announced the nationwide launch of VirtuWatt™ Link, a web service application to facilitate automated load response program participation.

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