(San Francisco, September 30, 2011) iCONNET SPB EMS (Energy-Management-System) by Controlnet International Inc. is the electricity operating system for next-generation Self-Powered Buildings (SPB) with the most efficient integrated smart-home functions. iCONNET featured at GoingGreen Silicon Valley event September 27 – 28, 2011, organized by Tony Perkins (founder of Red Herring)/AlwaysOn, and sponsored by KPMG, Morgan Stanley and Bridge Bank in San Francisco City Hall.

The ISPBC showcase was hosted by Ray Rothrock from Venrock Venture Capital Group, and panel participants included researcher Carrie Armel from Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency, Stanford University, and Bill Weihl, Green Energy Czar from Google, who supports smart green technologies like iConnet: “Energy-efficiency makes economic sense. It makes money and saves money.”

The iCONNET EMS is a customizable and scalable modular array system that can be adapted into any existing home, high-rise, commercial and industrial buildings. Since current buildings are not designed to provide integrated and optimized connectivity, electricity losses up to 23% occur in the conversion from AC-to-DC power. The multi-voltage iCONNET EMS maximizes energy efficiency of conventional AC-powered buildings.

The iCONNET EMS seamlessly integrates and directs multi-power sources: grid, renewables (wind/solar/thermal) and cloud. More importantly, it can provide direct DC-power to appliances like laptops and smart phones(iPhone). Portable devices can plug directly into the wall-outlet without bulky energy-consuming transformers. The iCONNET EMS effectively reduces loss of energy, heat and waste of resources. In addition to LED-lighting, it can provide a new platform for DC-powered energy-efficient consumer electronics and household appliances like air-conditioners, refrigerators and washers.

The iCONNET EMS is commercially-ready and adaptable immediately, also designed for the optimally performing next-generation building, SPB(Self-Powered-Building), certified by ISPBC.

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International Self-Powered Building Council (ISPBC) is dedicated to advance, develop and drive Self-Powered Building (SPB) innovations and practices with a global action plan. www.ISPBC.org

CONTROLNET INTERNATIONAL INC. is a publicly listed Taiwanese company with over 20 years of extensive history and expertise in grid electricity, smart-grid technologies like SCADA(Supervisor-Control-and-Data-Acquisition) and products with manufacturing facilities in Taipei, Taijung, Shanghai and with plans to develop regional iCONNET factories in the U.S. and EU regions. CONTROLNET manages 30,000 power stations in China and Taiwan. www.controlnet.info

Please contact info@ISPBC.org for more information.

(San Francisco, September 29, 2011) International Self-Powered Building Council (ISPBC) unveils Building 2.0 initiative to help America get back its competitive advantage

at GoingGreen Silicon Valley event organized by Tony Perkins (founder of Red Herring)/ AlwaysOn, and sponsored by KPMG, Morgan Stanley and Bridge Bank at San Francisco City Hall.

Building 2.0 is a multi-tier next-generation green building consisting of:

l   ENERGY SHELL – utilizing power-generating exterior building materials such as the RSI PV-Window-System and RSI ENERGY BIPS services (building-integrated-power-station).

l   ENERGY STORAGE – smart storage core like the MAGELEV.tm System.

l   CONTROL CORE – AC/DC EMS (Energy-Management-System) like iConnet core by Controlnet International Inc.

l   INTERIOR GREEN ANTI-GERM/ANTI-VOC NANOCOATING by XTIO2 Inc. World-exclusive anti-contagion technology with greater than 99.999% SGS-proven anti-bacterial efficacy. XTIO2 provides clean indoor air free of germs, VOCs and allergens.

Current renewable energy industry lacks sustainable business model relying on government subsidies. ISPBC has developed new categories of bankability and insurance plans to make SPBs affordable reality. They can deliver more than 600% ROI from electricity generation providing bankable value and insurable asset to SPB owners. Because of this business model ISPBC can make SPBs almost at the same cost as conventional buildings with critical, embedded value: integrated–energy-security against progressive global weather and environmental issues that cause constant grid-stability problems.

ISPBC works currently with over 1000 SPB-related companies (technology, building materials, finance, insurance, real-estate, construction and electricity) that contribute to the global deployment of Building 2.0. ISPBC provides the movement with resources, strategy and unified standards to reduce wasteful repetition and to form viable marketplace.

ISPBC Building 2.0 is a long overdue plan to UPGRADE AMERICA. Most cities in the U.S. are ideal for this improvement right now, lasting a building’s lifespan. Building 2.0 can become a new economic driver inspiring technology innovation, product development and new job creation. It is the real long-term solution that invigorates the development of new SPB ECONOMY that may surpass the glorious “dot-com” revolution in the 90’s. Unlike virtual “dot-com” assets, SPB is a hard asset built onto the world’s biggest economy – the real estate business.

It’s indisputable that all buildings in the future will generate power like Building 2.0. ISPBC collaborates with the whole building sector providing much needed foundation to pull together all current and new resources to grow this progressive evolution towards a new direction.

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International Self-Powered Building Council (ISPBC) is dedicated to advance, develop and drive Self-Powered Building (SPB) innovations and practices with a global action plan. www.ISPBC.org

(Washington DC, September 22, 2011)  International Self-Powered Building Council (ISPBC) awards Platinum Certification for the iCONNET SPB EMS (Energy-Management-System)  developed by Controlnet International Inc. as the core operating system for next-generation self-powered-buildings (SPB).

Co-developed with RSI ENERGY GROUP (www.energy.tm), iCONNET is a scalable multi-voltage smart engine and electricity network system. It manages and controls buildings of tomorrow with the most efficient integrated smart-home functions, designed to inter-connect clusters of SPBs into energy cloud networks.

ISPBC recognizes that today’s green buildings and consumer-electronic appliances progressively use more DC-power, like LED-lighting, and wind-power and PV require multistep conversions between AC to DC and vice versa. The current building electricity system is not designed to provide integrated and optimized connectivity, resulting up to 30% of avoidable electricity losses.

The AC/DC optimized iCONNET system is designed to support  the multi-voltage SPB. iCONNET represents the brain of the future self-powered buildings (SPB). It maximizes the energy efficiency of conventional AC-powered buildings with enhanced intelligent functions and adaptabilities for DC-powered appliances and a smart storage solution with guaranteed lifespan of five years. The integrated design of iCONNET can also provide more seamless smart-home controls surpassing current market products that require API translation which may have limited connectivity and compatibility issues.

The iCONNET is a customizable and scalable modular array system that can go into any existing homes and large commercial buildings, but it is optimized with architecture and protocols for future SPBs. Existing market demand has kept CONTROLNET at full production capacity with new facilities scheduled for 2012.

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International Self-Powered Building Council (ISPBC) is dedicated to advance, develop and drive Self-Powered Building (SPB) innovations and practices with a global action plan. ISPBC offers fully integrated solutions on a practical level including complete technology resources, products, knowledge, software, financial and business models. www.ISPBC.org

CONTROLNET TECHNOLOGY INC. is a publicly listed Taiwanese company with over 20 years of extensive history and expertise in grid electricity with propriety smart-grid technologies such as SCADA(Supervisor-Control-and-Data-Acquisition) and products and with worldwide manufacturing facilities in Taipei, Taijung, Shanghai and with plans to develop regional iCONNET factories in the US and EU regions. CONTROLNET manages 30,000 power station facilities in China and Taiwan. www.controlnet.info

Please contact info@ISPBC.org for more information.