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September 24, 2006   HVAC Belt Drive Efficiency Enhanced with Automatic Belt Tensioner

With energy prices soaring, efficiency is the name of the game when it comes to battling the costs of keeping cool.  During an energy audit, efforts to increase efficiency often focus on better sealing, managing replacement air, more efficient motors, sophisticated electronic controls or other high tech solutions that improve the situation but offer lengthy returns on your investment.  In this struggle to squeeze every BTU out of each kilowatt hour, auditors tend to overlook, trivialize or completely ignore climate control fan drive systems as an opportunity to make significant efficiency gains and achieve cost savings.

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September 24, 2006   Sensicast Ships Third-Gen Wireless Mesh Sensor Network Solution

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 2006--Today, Sensicast Systems (www.sensicast.com), worldwide provider of wireless sensor networks for industrial automation and monitoring enhancement, announced it is shipping SensiNet 3.0®--the industry’s first end-to-end, wireless mesh sensor network solution that can be tailored to specific applications using a self-configuring building block approach.

Sensicast’s third-generation mesh networking offering, SensiNet 3.0 is based on a building block deployment approach--for fast installation and scalability (from small networks to very large/multi-facility networks of hundreds of sensors). SensiNet’s patented wireless mesh network technology enables end-user customers such as plant and building managers to quickly install and operate comprehensive, yet tailor-made systems to wirelessly track conditions and processes in their facilities.

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