Gridlogix's Automated Enterprise Management Solution Wins Best New Product at BuilConn

Gridlogix's Automated Enterprise Management (AEM) solution won the "Buildy" award for the "Best New Product," recognizing its State of Missouri project involving the integration of 1000 buildings and 28M square feet into a single integrated energy, maintenance, and homeland security solution. Gridlogix's AEM solution allows the State of Missouri, and other customers, to reduce energy and maintenance cost by 20%. Other nominees included, Lantronix, Tridium, and Engenuity.

Chicago, IL (PRWEB) June 8, 2007 -- At the leading industry conference for building interoperability and IT integration Builconn, Gridlogix its customers and a key partner received awards at a gala award banquet attended by the industry's leading companies.

Gridlogix's Automated Enterprise Management (AEM) solution won the "Buildy" award for the "Best New Product", recognizing its State of Missouri project involving the integration of 1000 buildings and 28M square feet into a single integrated energy, maintenance, and homeland security solution. Gridlogix's AEM solution allows the State of Missouri, and other customers, to reduce energy and maintenance cost by 20%. Other nominees included, Lantronix, Tridium, and Engenuity.

David Mosby, The State of Missouri's Director of Facilities Management Design and Construction, won the Vision Award for "demonstrating his vision of whole building integration and interoperability through advocacy, promotion, education and training endeavors." Mosby's vision defined the need for an integrated, real-time, Web-based system for tracking and optimizing extensive space inventory usage and billing, work order management, and energy savings initiatives. Through the Gridlogix related State of Missouri Project, Mosby is delivering real examples of how to leverage interoperability to reduce facility "first cost" and "life cycle cost." Other Nominees included Engenuity Systems, myfacility, Zigbee Alliance, and Cisco.

Gridlogix Partner Pacific Controls, a leading system integrator in the Middle East was awarded the Buildy for "Best Intelligent Building." The award recognizes Pacific Controls new Corporate Headquarters, located in Dubai, which is the 16th LEED platinum building in the world and the first in the Middle East. Pacific Controls was recognized for "the most progressive building technology supporting the vision of whole building integration."

Toby Considine of University North Carolina was honored with an award from the GridWise Architecture Council for advancing interoperability between intelligent systems. Considine is the lead architect for the Gridlogix/Cyrus Technologies integration project at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Considine conceived and architected a solution allowing for a single integrated picture of 144 buildings across the UNC campus. Considine's leadership in standards, projects like UNC, publications, etc are helping others finally see the practical application of interoperability to reduce energy, maintenance, and other costs.

"These awards recognize that our customers are demonstrating measurable success, the kind demanded by leading CEO's and Governors." Said Gridlogix President Carter Williams, "We are seeing the final tipping point where a broad set of customers have real examples integrating their energy, maintenance, compliance and security needs into a single interoperable solution to significantly reduce operating costs with near term practical solutions. Gridlogix is honored to share in our customer's success."

BuilConn® is a unique event that unites all the individuals involved in buildings and IT to take an objective and comprehensive view of buildings and facilities, understand the technologies and trends that shape it, and discover the steps required to implement truly intelligent, integrated buildings. First held in Dallas April 2003, BuilConn has become the event for the convergence of building systems and IT.

About Gridlogix

A leading software solution provider for enterprise software and "machine 2 machine" interoperability. Customers use Gridlogix EnNET to integrate systems throughout the extended enterprise into a real time management system for Energy, Maintenance, Security and Compliance. Gridlogix eliminates "cost of implementation" as a barrier for implementing comprehensive IT enabled cost saving, lean, "Green" and revenue generating strategies. Where Microsoft and Cisco are the "Go To" technologies for integrating 500 million computers in the world, Gridlogix's software integrates these computers to the more than 40 billion microprocessor controlled devices throughout the enterprise, supply chain and customer base. Gridlogix customers include universities, schools, governments, fortune 500 companies, hospitals, data centers, etc.

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