FREE Hot Topics
Keep your finger on the pulse and stay up to date by visiting the Hot Topic area on the show floor. Find out what is "hot" and topical by coming along and listening to the industries best presenters. Smart Grid and Home Automation Attracting and Retaining Customers in Tough Market Conditions In tough market conditions small to medium enterprises can be adverse to change. They choose to “baton down the hatches”, cut back spending, tighten their belts, consolidate and hibernate and wait until things get better. A model like that, accompanied by resource intensive business processes and internal systems, can be detrimental as competition increases business opportunities recede.
Sessions will be presented throughout the show............
The National Broadband Network and Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP)
Time: Wednesday 12.30pm - 1.30pm & Thursday 12.00pm - 1.00pm
Presenter: David Ives - AVTEC Consulting
CEU Value: 0.75
Telecommunications in is about to undergo the most radical change since the introduction of broadband in the year 2000. This presentation covers telecommunications in general, with a particular focus on those areas which impact on entertainment and control systems inside the house – especially broadband data and optical fibre-delivered services.
These services will be explained in some detail within the context of the Australian Government National Broadband Network (NBN) using fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP). The presentation will explain the high-level architecture and design of telecommunications networks including hierarchies and topologies. The presentation will also outline various telecommunications technologies, including traditional voice telephony and switching, analogue and digital data transmission, packetized data networks, and internetworking (IP). Twisted pair cable technologies and techniques will be explained and some network performance measures such as Grade of Service and Quality of Service will be explained, particularly as they relate to content delivery. ADSL and wireless technologies will be covered briefly, optical fibre network design and techniques will explained, and a number of competing technologies and standards will be compared. This presentation is suitable for those people who are interested in understanding how telecommunication networks function, and more importantly, how they are likely to change in the next few years.
The 10% Solution and the Hidden Cost of Ignorance
Time: Wednesday 2.00pm - 3.00pm & Thursday 3.00pm - 4.00pm
Presenter: Michael Williams - W.C.Webberspoons Pty Ltd
CEU Value: 0.75
The impact of sustainable home entertainment equipment choices on the Architect, the Designer, The Installer and their Clients. Bear this in mind: The Home Automation market worldwide is a $2 billion per year industry and growing at over 10% each year. There are approximately 24 million homes worldwide with Home Automation Control systems. The current cost of Home Entertainment products on standby alone is 10% of all household electricity usage. The Government message is "turn it off at the power point". Countries such as , , simply cannot do this and there and elsewhere it is just never going to happen when these devices are under the control of an Automation Control system. So what are the alternatives?
Industry Partners Topic>Builders>Architects>Interior Designers
Time: Wednesday 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Presenter: David Vale - AVD
CEU Value: 0.75
Most top Architects, Interior Designers and Builders have all come across "home automation" requests in recent years from their clients. So how dose the modern design professional go about incorporating smart technologies into a residential development? There is a process and this presentation go’s through the 7-step methodology for smart home projects, outlining what to expect from today’s automation designer and will include residential case studies.
The topic will cover....
* Home Automation Market
* A 7-Step methodology for smart home projects
* Residential case studies
Building Systems – Building Green
Time: Thursday 10.30am - 11.30am
Presenter: Robin Mellon – Green Building Council Australia
CEU Value: 0.75
Robin will provide an overview of the work of the Green Building Council of Australia and the environmental rating tools for buildings currently available. He will overview the credits found within Green Star rating tools and their relevance to building systems, from heating and cooling to lighting and shading, as well as the benefits from building green and ways in which the barriers to building green are being overcome.
Emerging TV via The Internet
Time: Thursday 1.30pm - 2.30pm
Presenter: Bradley Little - Netgear Australia
CEU Value: 0.75
With the substantial penetration of Broadband in the Australian market, IPTV is set to play an increasing part in the home entertainment solutions for the home.
In this session we will discuss:
· How IPTV works
· What options are available to the consumer
· How does IPTV fit in to the Digital Home
· How IPTV it will impact your business
Time: Friday 10.30am - 11.30am
Presenter: Jay McLellan - HAI International
CEU Value: 0.75
Learn how to save energy with home automation. Also learn how it prepares a house for Smart Grid, Smart Meters and new rate programs for utilities. The presenter will cover techniques useable today in modern home automation systems and how to plan for new rate programs and smart meters. The presenter will cover several projects and discuss how smart grid is beginning to unfold in homes in the .
Time: Friday 12.00pm – 1.00pm
Presenter: Glenn Houssenloge - Customer Centric Services
CEU Value: 0.75
How can your business survive and strive in an uncertain market? How can you better service your existing customers, acquire new customers and keep your business costs under control? What are the necessary steps in being able to better analyse your business performance at all levels of your end to end process and not just at the bank account?
Buildings as trees, cities as forests
Time: Friday 1.30pm - 2.30pm
Presenter: Paul Lyons - Light Application
CEU Value: 0.75
When Michael McDonough, author and sustainability architect, suggested this be the new paradigm for the future, he was referring to the creation of buildings and communities that are self-sufficient. He also reminds us that "waste is a human phenomenon", so the concept of efficiency and renewable energy is central to the attainment of environmental stewardship. Through integration, energy management, techniques and technologies it is now possible to deliver buildings that are greener and more ecologically synergistic than ever before.
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