Richards-Zeta: Intelligence Files


IN THIS ISSUE	January 2007


Intelligence Files	RZ's Cisco Partner Solution Profile Cisco Systems has just released the Richards-Zeta Building Intelligence Cisco Partner Solution Profile.


Inside Story	RZ System Integrator's Measure Success Richards-Zeta (RZ) System Integrators (SI's) around the world are quickly discovering the power of Richards-Zeta's products, solutions, and systems.


Product Spotlight	RZ Mediator Multi-Protocol Exchange (MPX) The RZ Mediator extracts data from a variety of different physical interfaces, determines semantics through its multi-protocol support, applies domain-centric attributes and proffers this information to a variety of different consumers.


Solutions	CCRE Opportunity Realized~ Hotel 1000 at Madison Tower As a high-end, luxury boutique hotel and residential tower, MTM Luxury Lodging was looking to bring a new level of luxury to the city of Seattle. Their goal was to install, operate and manage a single converged network in which all building systems were managed and operated on the same network as the voice, video and data services provided to the guests.

	Novo Nordisk~ Advanced System Integration Novo Nordisk is a healthcare company and a world leader in diabetes care, with the broadest diabetes product portfolio in the industry, including the most advanced products within the area of insulin delivery systems. This project utilizes advanced systems integration via a variety of various communication protocols.


Events	AHR 2007 Dallas, Texas January 29-31, 2006.

	RZ Sponsor of BuilConn Middles East With the increased demand of IT in building automation, the launch of BuilConn® Middle East in Dubai and Riyadh delivers key education on implementing IT for buildings and facilities.


Recent News	RZ Launches New face of Richards-Zeta Website As the company, product offerings and solutions has grown, so has the need for an advanced, intuitive website which allows users to find all information on RZ and solutions offerings quickly and easily..

	Richards-Zeta Winner of Frost & Sullivan 2006 Industry Innovation & Advancement of the Year Award The 2006 Frost & Sullivan Indistry Innovation & Advancement of the Year Award is presented to Richards-Zeta for introducing its open platform, Internet Protocol (IP) solution to the building automation (BAS) industry.

Cisco Systems has just released the Richards-Zeta Building Intelligence Cisco Partner Solution Profile.

The profile discusses RZ's partner designation as a Cisco Connected Real Estate (CCRE). The profile is designed for Cisco Account Managers to educate them on the RZ Solution and the immediate benefits their customers will begin to realize by using the RZ Mediator. The customer benefits are as follows:

Aggregates disparate building information onto a single Cisco IP network
Reduces CAPEX and OPEX expenses
Integrates legacy building systems without replacement
Extends value of installed IP network (extending the 'network edge'
Links key systems to target applications
Integrates Cisco Unified Communications with building systems for improved control

RZ is also featured in Cisco's On-Line Partner Solution Catalog. To visit this site, please click here.

RZ System Integrator's Measure Success

Richards-Zeta (RZ) System Integrators (SI's) around the world are quickly discovering the power of Richards-Zeta's products, solutions, and systems. Whether looking to RZ for its complete offering of building automation systems or as a value add to their existing building automation offering, RZ SI's are using the RZ platform to assist them in truly achieving success. Secutech Automation, located in Mumbai, India is using the elegance and power of the entire RZ solution to propose advanced intelligent building solutions to numerous vertical markets, including high-tech, healthcare, retail and manufacturing. Facility Solutions Group (FSG) located in Austin, Texas is using the RZ Mediator Multi-Protocol Exchange (MPX) to deliver advanced energy management solutions to large national accounts across many vertical markets. Integration Control & Integration, based in Sydney, Australia is maximizing RZ's full-service division by utilizing RZ's flexible training program and Preferred Control Solutions LLC located in Pembroke, Massachusetts, leveraged RZ's BIG (Building Intelligence Group) division to help jump-start their first RZ projects.

The RZ Mediator as Middleware

The RZ Mediator™ is a middleware solution comprised of both hardware and software. This domain agnostic integration framework is able to communicate with a number of disparate protocols. The Multi-Protocol Exchange (MPX™) software framework plays a central role in the integration process by normalizing both IP and legacy serial based protocols, which in turn allows for intra-protocol communication, the uniform application of services such as logging, and the common presentation of information that is sourced from the array of intelligent machines found in buildings.

Using OMEGA™'s embedded tool suites, custom web-pages may be designed and hosted on the Mediator™ that are then used to present a window into the real-time condition of building systems. Alarms, logs, control sequences and other common features may also be configured using these tools. And since the Mediator™ abstracts and treats all data in the same manner, there is no special distinction or friction associated with creating user defined causal relationships between sub-systems. Any value or combination of values taken from the HVAC, Lighting, Electrical or any other system, can change the operation of others.

AHR 2007

Dallas, Texas
January 29-31, 2007
During the AHR Expo, the RZ Team will be providing interactive demonstrations of IP solutions by linking disparate building systems of different manufacturers and protocols using Richards-Zeta's Mediator Multi-Protocol Exchange (MPX). Visit RZ's booth for product demonstrations and presentations on new features and function. Contact RZ today for complimentary passes to the show.
Booth# 1749

RZ Sponsor of BuilConn Middle East

With the increased demand of IT in building automation, the launch of BuilConn® Middle East in Dubai and Riyadh delivers key education on implementing IT for buildings and facilities.
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Richards-Zeta releases the new face of the RZ Website (www.richards-zeta.com)

As the company, product offerings and solutions has grown, so has the need for an advanced, intuitive website which allows users to find all information on RZ and solutions offerings quickly and easily.

In light of the new intelligent buildings opportunities and projects that are rapidly developing around the world, Richards-Zeta has partnered with several key partners throughout the Middle East, Asia, India and Australia. In an effort to better serve these regions, RZ has launched a new, innovative 'Regions' section of the site. The 'Regions' section highlights an insightful HTML Flash world map with corresponding links to the various regions. The goal for the regions section is to provide a 'home-base' for all world partners and customers. This dynamic site will feature Press Releases, Case Studies and Events which correspond to each Region. RZ is asking for our partners support through this website by providing RZ information corresponding to the 'Regions' Section.

Richards-Zeta Winner of Frost & Sullivan 2006 Industry Innovation & Advancement of the Year Award

The 2006 Frost & Sullivan Indistry Innovation & Advancement of the Year Award is presented to Richards-Zeta for introducing its open platform, Internet Protocol (IP) solution to the building automation (BAS) industry.