Alerton

Last updated
Alerton
Formerly
Alerton Technologies
Private [1]
Industry Building automation, HVAC, Intelligent building
Founded1981;39 years ago (1981) in Bellevue, Washington
Founders
  • Al Lucas
  • Clair Jenkins
  • Tony Fassbind
Headquarters Lynnwood, Washington
Key people
Dwayne Wright (Sales Director) [2]
Products Building Management System, Thermostats, Programmable thermostat
Website www.alerton.com

Alerton (sometimes misspelled "Allerton") is a United States company based in Lynnwood, Washington. It is a manufacturer of building automation systems for heating, ventilation and air conditioning HVAC equipment.

Contents

The company was founded in 1981 in Bellevue by three entrepreneurs from whom the company's name was derived: Al Lucas, Clair Jenkins and Tony Fassbind. [3] Lucas was Jenkin's father-in-law; Fassbind was the company's chief executive officer and chief technologist; while Jenkin's succeeded Lucas as president after his retirement, and serviced as the lead business developer. [3]

Alerton's entry into the building automation systems market was through the application of direct digital controls in their products, a technology which had in the early 1980s been largely overlooked by the market's major players. [3] The company developed their own control protocol, Ibex, and transitioned to using the license-free BACnet protocol beginning in 1995; in adopting BACnet, the company became the first to implement this protocol across an entire product line in the controls industry. [3]

Alerton was acquired by the UK building supplies company Novar in 2003; as part of the acquisition, "Alerton Technologies" became "Alerton", a wholly owned subsidiary of Novar Controls and part of Novar's Intelligent Building Systems division. [4] [5] The acquisition was aimed at being a growth opportunity for both firms, and Novar recognized Alerton as "a pioneer in the development of the BACnet protocol". [4]

Alerton became part of Honeywell in 2005 when its parent company, Novar, was acquired. [6] [7] In Honeywell, Alerton is part of the company's Automation and Controls group. [8]

Related Research Articles

ABB Group Swedish-Swiss robotics and electrical equipment company

ABB, formerly ASEA Brown Boveri, is a Swedish-Swiss multinational corporation headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, operating mainly in robotics, power, heavy electrical equipment, and automation technology areas. It is ranked 341st in the Fortune Global 500 list of 2018 and has been a global Fortune 500 company for 24 years. Until the sale of its electricity division in 2020, ABB was Switzerland's largest industrial employer. ABB is traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange in Zürich, Nasdaq Stockholm and the New York Stock Exchange in the United States.

Mentor is a US-based electronic design automation (EDA) multinational corporation for electrical engineering and electronics, headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon. The company was founded in 1981 by Tom Bruggere.

Honeywell American multinational conglomerate

Honeywell International Inc. is an American publicly traded, multinational conglomerate headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. It primarily operates in four areas of business: aerospace, building technologies, performance materials and technologies (PMT), and safety and productivity solutions (SPS).

LonWorks is a networking platform specifically created to address the needs of control applications. The platform is built on a protocol created by Echelon Corporation for networking devices over media such as twisted pair, powerlines, fiber optics, and RF. It is used for the automation of various functions within buildings such as lighting and HVAC; see building automation.

BACnet is a communication protocol for Building Automation and Control (BAC) networks that leverage the ASHRAE, ANSI, and ISO 16484-5 standard protocol.


Tridium Inc. is an American engineering hardware and software company based in Richmond, Virginia, whose products facilitate and integrate the automation of building and other engineering control systems.

Rockwell Automation

Rockwell Automation, Inc., is an American provider of industrial automation and information technology. Brands include Allen-Bradley and FactoryTalk software.

Kofax

Kofax Inc. (Kofax) is an American process automation software provider with international headquarters in Irvine, California.

Harman International American electronics company

Harman International Industries, Incorporated, commonly known as Harman, is an American company that designs, engineers and produces connected products for automakers, consumers and enterprises worldwide, including connected car systems, audio and visual products, enterprise automation, and connected services. Since 2017, the company has been an independent subsidiary of Samsung Electronics.

Direct digital control is the automated control of a condition or process by a digital device (computer). Direct digital control takes a centralized network-oriented approach. All instrumentation is gathered by various analog and digital converters which use the network to transport these signals to the central controller. The centralized computer then follows all of its production rules and causes actions to be sent via the same network to valves, actuators, and other heating, ventilating, and air conditioning components that can be adjusted.

Intermec is a manufacturer and supplier of automated identification and data capture equipment, including barcode scanners, barcode printers, mobile computers, RFID systems, voice recognition systems, and life cycle services.

Broadcom Inc. American semiconductor company

Broadcom Inc. is an American designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless, and storage and industrial markets.

Thermo Fisher Scientific provisioner of scientific consumables, equipment, and services

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an American provisioner of scientific instrumentation, reagents and consumables, and software and services to healthcare, life science, and other laboratories in academia, government, and industry. Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Thermo Fisher was created in 2006 by the merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific, to form a company with US$ 9 billion in combined revenues.

Novar plc

Novar plc was an international building supplies group based in the United Kingdom. Novar was formed in 1921 as Metal Box Company from the coming together of several businesses and trades, including canning and printing. By the 1970s it was a market leader in these fields. In the 1980s the company diversified into building supplies and at its peak consisted of 30 companies supplying products to the construction and DIY industries.

IHS Markit Ltd is an American-British information provider based in London formed in 2016 with the merger of IHS Inc. and Markit Ltd.

Genesys (company)

Genesys, or Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc., is a company that sells customer experience and call center technology to mid-sized and large businesses. It sells both cloud-based and on-premises software. Genesys is headquartered in Daly City, California, and has offices in Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The company was founded in 1990 and was most recently acquired by Permira Funds and Technology Crossover Ventures in February 2012.

Daikin Applied Americas is a global corporation that designs, manufacturers and sells heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) products, systems, parts and services for commercial buildings. Since 2006, McQuay has been a subsidiary of Daikin Industries, Ltd. McQuay world headquarters are located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Products are sold by a global network of sales representatives and distributors. 5 September 2002

KMC Controls

KMC Controls has designed and manufactured HVAC control system products and building automation systems since 1969. KMC was one of the early privately held controls manufacturer with a full line of digital, electronic, and pneumatic products in the United States. The latest products include BACnet digital controllers and thermostats.

Honeywell Intelligrated [sic] is a material handling automation and software engineering company based in Mason, Ohio. In 2017, Honeywell Intelligrated reported revenue of $1 billion. Honeywell Intelligrated has production and service locations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and China.

References

  1. ↑ "Alerton Technologies, Inc.: Company Profile". Bloomberg. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Alerton, Inc.: CEO and Executives". Bloomberg.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Newman, Michael (2013). "2.9.1 ALERTON". BACnet. New York: Momentum Press. ISBN   9781606502907. OCLC   909981984 – via Google Books.
  4. 1 2 Mazurkiewicz, Greg (February 28, 2003). "Novar To Acquire Alerton Technologies". The Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration NEWS. BNP Media. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Novar Controls to buy Alerton Technologies". The Seattle Times . March 1, 2003. p. C1. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Honeywell to Offer to Acquire Novar for GBP 1.2 Billion -US$2.4 Billion-; Offer Unanimously Recommended by Novar Board" (Press release). Honeywell. December 13, 2004. Retrieved October 17, 2017– via BusinessWire.
  7. ↑ "Honeywell to Buy Novar for $1.53 Billion". Business Day. The New York Times. December 13, 2004. Retrieved March 11, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Honeywell Building Solutions - Alerton Building Automation System". Honeywell Partner Connect. Honeywell. Retrieved March 11, 2018.

Further reading

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.