A complete List of our Newsletters

Since 2005, we have sent out newsletters to help keep our customers informed with the latest and most important information surrounding the automation industry. Take a moment to read through and catch up on our Ongoing Series, Entertainment, Technology News, and more:

JULY 2024 NEWSLETTER: LUTRON CASE STUDY, AI IN INTEGRATION JOBS, CYBERSECURITY

Highlights:

• Phew! Our professions are AI safe.
• Cybersecurity: We need to do a better job!

Featured Product

November 2022 - FULL NEWSLETTER

Highlights:

• Elements of Hunter ACC2 Irrigation System

Ongoing Series

• How Automation Will Affect You Personally:
  • Teach automation and System Integration to your children this holiday season.
• Cyber Attack - The Looming Automation Crisis:
  • Proud to be vulnerable free!

February 2022 - FULL NEWSLETTER

Highlights:

• Encode floating-point and 32-bit data in Modbus RTU Messages
• BACnet SC, Chipkin & Plugfest

Ongoing Series

• How Automation Will Affect You Personally:
  • Are you being Tracked?
• Cyber Attack - The Looming Automation Crisis:
  • Pedestrians of the Future

June 2021 - FULL NEWSLETTER

Highlights:

• FieldServer Tutorial - Using XPath Expressions to extract Live Data Points from an API and how to serve that data over Modbus TCP and BACnet/IP

Ongoing Series

• How Automation Will Affect You Personally:
  • Major Gas Pipeline Attack due to Failures in BAS Security
• Cyber Attack - The Looming Automation Crisis:
  • Pipeline Hack

October 2020 - FULL NEWSLETTER

Highlights:

• Replacing white spaces with single spaces in Notepad++
• BACnet Foreign Device - Explained
• Particle Counting: HACH Met One R4800 Particle Counter

Ongoing Series

• How Automation Will Affect You Personally:
  • How Tax Cheats are Caught - Random Numbers are Less Random Than You Think
• Cyber Attack - The Looming Automation Crisis:
  • How to Spot a Phishing Email - 5 Minute Article

April 2020 - FULL NEWSLETTER

Highlights:

• Google is Tracking Your Every Move - Learn How to Stop Them
• How to Export Multiple Excel Sheets to CSV (or Text Files) with Visual Basic
• Case Study: XProtect CCTV Gateway

Ongoing Series

• How Automation Will Affect You Personally:
  • Amazon Employees Are Listening to your Alexa Recordings. Take Back Control With these Steps
• Cyber Attack - The Looming Automation Crisis:
  • Self-Driving Vehicles - Risks, Ethics, and You

August 2019 - FULL NEWSLETTER

Highlights:

• BACnet Protocol Revisions Create New BACnet Objects
• A Blocked Toilet Led to $500M in Lost Revenue
• Chipkin QuickServer/FieldServer Support Guide
• Giveaway: Enter to win a BACnet Router

Ongoing Series

• How Automation Will Affect You Personally:
  • BACnet Implementation - Avoid Wasting Money, Hire an Expert Instead
• Cyber Attack - The Looming Automation Crisis:
  • How Safe is Your Car? Only 7 Out of 237 Tested Could Not Be Hacked

February 2019 - FULL NEWSLETTER

Highlights

• The ARMs Race
• Multiple Modbus Masters for One Slave?
• Read the NEC for Free (Legally)
• Case Study - Developing New Protocol Gateways for EKM Metering

Ongoing Series

• How Automation Will Affect You Personally: Competing Dynamics at Different Levels of Aggregation
• Cyber Attack - The Looming Automation Crisis: Password Managers - Part 2 of 2

AUGUST 2018 - FULL NEWSLETTER

Highlights

• KNX Protocol - 10 Minute Course
• IP vs. Gigabit - 5 Minute Course
• Barrington Lanstar and Microstar Solutions
• FREE Download - CAS BACnet Wireshark Report Tool

Ongoing Series

• How Automation Will Affect You Personally: Toilet Automation
• Cyber Attack - The Looming Automation Crisis: Smart Locks Can Be Hacked

MARCH 2018 - FULL NEWSLETTER

Highlights

• Differences between Category 5, Cat5e, and Cat6 Patch Cables
• CAT5, CAT5e, and CAT6 UTP (Solid Cable) Specifications Comparison
• Shielded (STP) and Unshielded (UTP) Twisted Pairs
• Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions

Ongoing Series

• How Automation Will Affect You Personally: Retail Automation
• Cyber Attack - The Looming Automation Crisis: Control Systems Vulnerabilities

JUNE 2017 - FULL NEWSLETTER

Highlights

• New Product – 1-Wire Temperature Sensing
• China's Superlative Bridges
• Video – Quantum Computer
• Case Study: Terra Nova Oil Platform – Fire System

Ongoing Series

• How Automation Will Affect You Personally: Automation, You, and the Future
• Cyber Attack - The Looming Automation Crisis: BACnet Vulnerabilities