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PUBLISHED ARTICLES
Peter Manolescue, senior consultant of securityXML, is a regular contributor of articles for key security and facilities management trade publications including SMT, Professional Security and pfm.

Downloadable versions of the articles are available as links below, or can be read in the following magazines:

IPfocus

Building Engineer, July 04ed., 'Agile Buildings'

"At Last - via 'OBIX'
Many different words and phrases have been used to describe different 'buildings for the future'. People use them to mean what they want them to mean..."

Pages 1 2

Professional Security

IPfocus, March June 04ed., 'Open Systems Protocol'

"Network & IP Systems
In many respects, the security industry is just coming of age. Only in the past couple of years have software developers begun to really focus on the growing popularity of open systems..."

Pages 1 2

Housing Association

Building Services Journal, May 04ed., 'Web service'


"Are any bems truly interoperable?
Despite a great deal of research I have still not yet identified one building energy management system in Europe or the US that is fully 'web services enabled'..."

Building Services Journal

IPfocus, Jan 04ed., 'International IP in Security'

"Exhibition & Conference
How systems of the future will integrate together - starting with a vision of the future..."


 
IPfocus IPfocus, Jan 03ed., 'Securing an advantage'

"What our future holds
Let's look just a few years ahead to what digital technology will mean for business, building automation and security...."
Professional Security

Professional Security , March 03ed., 'Securing an advantage'

"Network & IP Systems
The First IIPSEC exhibition offered security folk a chance to meet and think in terms of other sectors - such as IT and building management - before, maybe, those sectors start dictating to the electronic security industry. Mark Rowe reports some views on the event, and products..."

Pages 1 2 3

Housing Association

House Association , Sep/Dec 03ed., 'Safety Net'

"Safety Net
Care in the Home with Web Services. What can this mean? Madeleine Bath explains..."

Pages 1 2

Building Services Journal Building Services Journal, Dec 03ed., 'Supply and demand'

"Supply and demand
Across the US companies are learning the value of having an energy management strategy. Madeleine Bath looks at what has driven this..."

 

B Eng cover B Eng, Aug ed., 'Is Building Systems Nirvana Closer Than We Think?'

"There is an old joke about a tired traveler who asks a country bumpkin the way to the nearest inn. "If I were you," says the bumpkin, "I wouldn't start from here". Engineers rarely have the luxury of choosing the starting point for the design of a product or system..."
PFM cover BSJ, Jul ed., 'Are we connecting yet?'

"Making building management systems talk the same language is harder than getting European leaders to agree. At a recent conference in Dallas, Peter Manolescue found that an entente cordiale may be just around the corner..."
PFM cover PFM, Apr ed., 'The X-factor in Integration'

"Improving the performance of an organization's fixed assets and ancillary operations whilst controlling and reducing their cost has a simple and powerful appeal..."
SMT cover SMT, Feb ed., first episode 'The Futures Bright, The Futures Organised'

"The fact that tomorrow will be different from today is hardly an earth-shattering prediction. However to accurately identify how it will differ is a challenging and important management task. The original management consultant, Peter Drucker, is not a great fan of futurologists. However he does believe that you can get a good understanding of what is coming by projecting the impact of events that have already happened..."
SMT cover SMT, Jan ed., 'Analogue Vs Digital'

"In the vast majority of cases where digital technology can take over from analogue, the process is well underway and in many cases almost complete. In the vast majority of sectors, analogue systems and products are regarded as old-fashioned and are actually obsolete. But in the security industry, the reliance on analogue still persists and new multi-million pound security systems based on analogue technology are still being specified and purchased..."
Professional security cover Professional Security, Feb ed., 'Three Steps for Building Heaven'

"How sad it is to see a prestigious building with the clean lines of its marble-clad walls 'uglified' by the ironmongery of a CCTV camera, housing and pan-and-tilt mechanism. Who is to blame? Is it the security manager for ignoring the original aesthetics or the architect for not foreseeing the need for such systems? Maybe we are all just victims of today's need for increased security..."
SMT cover Pfm, Jan ed., 'First Conference on Integrated Building by CABA - A Great Success'

"The two-day inaugural Intelligent and Integrated Buildings conference held at the Metro Toronto Convention centre at the beginning of December was organised by the 330 member strong association of CABA (Continental Automated Buildings Association)..."
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