Many stationary engineers are becoming more involved with the technical aspect of the job as it has shifted toward a dependence on building automation.

RS-485 is also used in building automation as the simple bus wiring and long cable length is ideal for joining remote devices.

Some newer building automation and lighting control solutions use wireless mesh open standards (such as ZigBee).

Fire and smoke alarm systems can be hard-wired to override building automation.

OPC is an industry standard used widely in manufacturing, process control, and building automation.

Home automation is the residential extension of building automation.

It uses a fieldbus network protocol and has applications in the field of home automation and building automation.

With this configurable intelligency in this "brain", we are moving to the concept of building automation.

Energy efficiency is - besides comfort issues - the major target of employing building automation.

Schneider said the purchase would strengthen its operations in building automation, an $11 billion dollar market with a growth rate averaging 6 percent a year.