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		<title>Alps Control Freak: news bits from around the web, 12.21.09</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/12/alps-control-freak-news-bits-from-around-the-web-12-21-09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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With Christmas just right around the corner, we hope that you&#8217;ve already written to Santa to ask him for more energy-efficient buildings, a greater number of green building construction starts, a massive upcoming tradeshow and a house that spins around following the movement of the sun in the sky.
No? Then you&#8217;d better delve deeply into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is your hotel room leaving the lights on for you? Maybe not for long&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/illumra-wireless-key-card-controls-energy-conservation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Controls]]></category>
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At first, this seemed like a pretty cool application of occupancy-based energy consumption control: a company called ILLUMRA has launched a Wireless Key Card Reader, ideally suited for hotel room use, that turns off HVAC and lighting controls in an unoccupied room. Apparently the card reader doesn&#8217;t need wires or batteries, and can be installed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overwhelmed by your incomprehensibly massive, energy efficiency retrofit project? Here&#8217;s some perspective.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/10/overwhelmed-by-your-incomprehensibly-massive-energy-efficiency-retrofit-project-heres-some-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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If you were able to implement a comprehensive energy efficiency retrofit by updating your building&#8217;s controls, automation processes, lighting and more &#8211; and if you could save 38% of the building&#8217;s energy and lower your building costs by $4.4 million annually, all for the low, low price of $550 million, you&#8217;d do it, right? 
No? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alps Control Freak: news bits from around the web, 10.16.09</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/10/alps-control-freak-news-bits-from-around-the-web-10-16-09/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/10/alps-control-freak-news-bits-from-around-the-web-10-16-09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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Let&#8217;s hurdle downhill toward the weekend today as we breeze through my RSS reader and check out some news items from across the Wild Wonderful Web. Got an interesting piece of news, new technologies or gadgets you&#8217;ve come across? Or do you simply really, REALLY love building controls and you&#8217;re anxious to share? Send me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wirelessly Sensing Everything</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/03/wirelessly-sensing-everything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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Market research firm ON World is projecting a bright future for&#0160;wireless sensor networks&#0160;(WSNs), recession or not. The firm expects WSN R&#38;D spending to reach $1.3 billion by 2012, from $522 million in 2007. The biggest potential markets identified are energy (smart grid, in-home energy control, and renewable energy), environmental monitoring, healthcare, industrial automation, transportation, public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Echelon Announces New Products to Support LonWorks 2.0 Platform.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/03/echelon-announces-new-products-to-support-lonworksr-2-0-platform/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/03/echelon-announces-new-products-to-support-lonworksr-2-0-platform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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New Products Reduce Cost and Complexity of Creating Energy-Aware Solutions
SAN JOSE, Calif. &#38; NUREMBERG, Germany &#8212; Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) today announced a suite of new LonWorks 2.0 products that make everyday devices in buildings, factories, homes and elsewhere smarter, more powerful at less cost, and easier to install. Products in the initial suite, available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watt Stopper Legrand’s easy-to-adjust LS-101 Daylighting Controller</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/01/watt-stopperlegrand%e2%80%99s-easy-to-adjust-ls-101-daylighting-controller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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Watt Stopper/Legrand&#8217;s LS-101 daylighting controller was created in response to growing demands by building owners and managers who want practical, cost effective solutions to save energy and meet code requirements. The LS-101 is a single zone controller designed to switch lights OFF and ON when light levels detected by the unit&#8217;s internal light sensor fall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you speak 2009?</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/01/do-you-speak-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/01/do-you-speak-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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Want to stay in the loop for the next 12 months but are worried that you won&#39;t understand the lingo? David Randall reveals the words and phrases&#0160;you&#39;ll need to keep your street cred intact this year.
The New Year was so young it was barely on solids when the words reached us. And they were not [...]]]></description>
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