Frost & Sullivan Lauds Richards-Zeta's Revolutionary Building Management Platform

Based on recent research in the building automation systems market, Frost & Sullivan has selected Richards-Zeta (RZ) as the recipient of the 2007 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation.This award is in recognition of the company's radical Mediator platform, which simplifies connectivity and integration in buildings.The product is distinctive for its fluid and open communication capabilities for building intelligence systems. By employing IP, the Mediator enables two-way communication over a TCP/IP network among controls, sensors, devices, and systems within a facility.

RZ has only one agenda - to open up building automation systems by using the interoperability of its technology. As it aims to offer new technology based on the needs of system integrators, RZ has created open sourced systems as defined by the Information Technology (IT) industry, providing a gateway for converging all data to an IP platform for seamless information sharing. buildings.

Preparing for technological evolutions in building systems, RZ has based its products on standards as proposed by IT. This has enabled the company to not only to normalize all data – proprietary as well as open – into one single standard that is accepted globally, but also leverage from third party applications such as HTML, XML, and Flash for building control applications.

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Richards-Zeta's International Partner's Focus on Promoting Advanced System Integration

Richards-Zeta's International System Integrator (SI) Partner's are focusing on promoting advanced systems integration and normalized building systems data. In collaboration with RZ's factory office, RZ SI's in the International market are seeing increased market acceptance and market demand for the RZ product line. Through the Cisco Connected Real Estate (CCRE) relationship channels, new business opportunities and projects are accelerating at a rapid pace around the world.

Secutech Automation, located in Mumbai, India is using the elegance and power of the RZ solution to propose advanced intelligent building solutions to numerous vertical markets, including high-tech, healthcare, retail and manufacturing. Secutech has successfully sold and is installing numerous high-profile commercial buildings, including Wipro Technologies' new corporate office in Cochin. Wipro Technologies is the number one provider of integrated business, technology and process solutions on a global delivery platform, as well "best IT outsourcing service provider" & "best employer" in India.

By leading with the RZ Mediator as the Supervisory network and field controller w/ Web Server and Enterprise Services and a Multi-Protocol Exchange (MPX) architecture, Secutech Automation has been able to successfully market RZ's IP Solutions. "By installing the RZ Mediator infrastructure, we are able to position the RZ I/O controllers and peripherals as furthering the IP solution," says Nitin Deo of Secutech. "The key selling point is that with the Mediator infrastructure, our clients are not committed to any one manufacturer. Through the numerous serial and Ethernet ports, our clients have the ability and flexibility to integrate any supported 3rd party manufacturers protocol throughout any area of their facility, campus and enterprise."

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The Value of Normalized Building Systems Data

Richards-Zeta (RZ) System Integrator (SI) Partner's around the world are quickly realizing the power of normalized building systems data. The value proposition is simple. With normalized building systems data, all data from multiple physical interfaces (Ethernet, RS-232, RS-485, FTT-10, USB, etc.), systems protocols (BACnet, LonWorks, Modbus, Proprietary~ JCI, Staefa, BC NW 8000, etc.) and domains (HVAC, Metering, Lighting, Energy, Security, etc.) are abstracted and presented in one common IT standard model. This eliminates the need for multiple host workstations for each building system and most importantly now allows the leveraging of the IP network and all the application, services and client views that are available worldwide.

The problem today is that proprietary and closed systems are the norm and the installed base where end-users and building owners are effectively held hostage by the "incumbent" vendor de jour. The physical layer and protocol layer is not necessarily the problem but the means to the problem, as this business model ensures the control of the end-user. This business model leaves the end-user and building owner stuck and with little options to improve, upgrade and advance their building systems .Migration pathways to upgrade legacy systems are obsolete and the end-user is being sold on the need to simply remove and replace the legacy systems with new systems with no backwards compatibility!

Well...the gig is up. End-users and building owners are looking for options! RZ SI's are hitting the market hard, full-filling the needs and the goals of the end-users and effectively differentiating them selves from the norm by providing options. A brand new RZ SI, Mechanical Service & Systems, Inc. (MSS) has immediately begun to see the value proposition of differentiation. In a matter of three (3) months, MSS has proposed, sold, installed, integrated to and opened up numerous BAS systems, including JCI Metasys NCM (N-1), JCI Metasys NAE, Staefa Smart II, Trane Summit, Trane Com4 (Voyagers & Vari-Trak), Barber Coleman NW 8000, Modbus RTU, and different LonWorks systems using RZ’s powerful products and solutions.

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The Largest Enterprise Energy Management Deployment in North America

Simon Property Group, Inc. (SPG), headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a real estate investment trust engaged in the ownership, development and management of retail real estate, primarily regional malls, Premium Outlet centers and community/lifestyle centers. Through its subsidiary partnership, it currently owns or has an interest in 324 properties in the United States containing an aggregate of 245 million square feet of gross leasable area in 41 states plus Puerto Rico. Simon also holds interests in 53 European shopping centers in France, Italy and Poland; 5 Premium Outlet centers in Japan; and one Premium Outlet center in Mexico.

SPG is the largest publicly traded retail real estate company in North America with a total market capitalization of approximately $56 billion.

With over 245 million square feet of leasable property, Simon Property Group was seeking a solution which would allow them to leverage the most innovative and advanced technology in Building Automation fully integrated with Automated Meter Reading. Historically, Simon Property Group has manually read thousands of check meters in order to measure common area, tenant, and heating & cooling plant energy usages. Simon had inherited legacy systems as they expanded their portfolio of properties. Many of these legacy systems needed significant technical updates and had limited support options.

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BuilConn Americas

Rosemont, IL May 22-24, 2007
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.

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AHR 2008

New York, NY
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# 264

Richards-Zeta's Partners Nominated for Industry Awards

BuilConn (May 22-24, 2007) Buildy Awards:
Simon Property Group (SPG) Nominated for Best Integration
Hotel 1000 Nominated for Best Intelligent Building

RealComm Digi Awards:
Simon Property Group (SPG) Nominated for Best Use of Automation - Owner

Winners will be announced at the shows!

Richards-Zeta Featured in AutomatedBuildings.com as well as Engineered Systems Magazine

Automated Building.com featured RZ and Partner's throughout the May Edition

Largest Enterprise Energy Management Deployment in North America

The Value of Normalized Building Systems Data

Engineered Systems Intelligent Buildings Today supplement featured RZ's Hotel 1000 Case-Study. Please click here to read the article, or to watch the video, please click here.

Richards-Zeta August 27-31, 2007 RZ Training Class

Please contact RZ Sales for more information on Training

RZ has also released a complete on-line library of Video Training Tutorials. Click Here to view a sample, or contact RZ today for more information.