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SEPTEMBER 2001 SECTION MEETING

 

The Kick Off Meeting for this year took place at Siemens Energy & Automation in Spring House, PA . The meeting began with a social hour featuring demonstrations by ANDOVER CONTROLS, HONEYWELL, JOHNSON CONTROLS, & SIEMENS BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES.

 

Andover Controls

Johnson Controls

Siemens Building Technology

Honeywell

  SOCIAL HOUR


Ed Gregg, the ISA Philadelphia Section President welcomed back the members of the section and made a few announcements on current ISA events. Over 60 ISA members attended Wednesdays meeting. Ed called for a moment of silence for those involved in September 11th's tragic events and proceeded on to introduce the evening's Speaker John Demsy,PE.

SPEAKER: JOHN DEMSY, PE.

John Demsy, PE, is an Engineering Manager at Andover Controls in Kennett Square, PA.
BSEE -Drexel University, Phila. PA
MSCE
(Systems Engineering) -Stanford University, Palo Alto,CA
Professional Engineer registered in Delaware
18 yrs designing & programming
                 Building Automation Systems for Encompass.
Specializes in open protocol systems integration using Andover Controls.

3 yrs controls engineer for TKLP, Phila, PA, (A&E)
5 yrs Chief Engr for DE Dept of Health & Social Services

Topics that were covered included...

      ·        Building Automation vs Process Control
·        History of Direct Digital Communications
·        Methods of Digital Communications
·        Building Automation Systems protocols
·        Proprietary & Custom Drivers
·        ModBus RTU & TCP
·        BACnet
·        LONworks
·        OPC
·        Details of OPC
·        Steps to specify an open system

 

 

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