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NextWindow and Quality Automation Graphics Help Buildings Go Green
SOURCE: NextWindow · POSTED: 12/18/07
Interactive touchscreens help building owners educate the public about building energy efficiency, earn LEED credits
CHICAGO -- Green cars, green buildings, green energy, and now green building data. As Americans become increasingly aware about the importance of being “green” to protect the environment, businesses strive to communicate their green message. NextWindow, an international leader in the design and manufacture of optical touchscreen overlays and OEM touch components, together with Quality Automation Graphics, a provider of control systems graphic design for the building automation industry, are helping building controls companies, building owners, and others convey their green message through the use of interactive touchscreen kiosks that display building energy efficiency data to the public.
Displaying energy efficiency on an interactive display also helps a building owner to earn credit towards the U.S. Green Building Council’s Innovation in Design Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) system, which recognizes companies for innovative strategies that demonstrate quantifiable environmental benefits.
“There’s a growing trend towards building owners using large format monitors to display all kinds of critical building data for a variety of uses,” said Anthony Uhrick, NextWindow VP of Sales, North America. “Using NextWindow and Quality Automation’s interactive touchscreens, with commercial grade monitors, a building owner can educate the public on the viability of green buildings while making the content interactive.”
One of the largest building controls companies in the world is incorporating Energy Star rated 46" LCD's using NextWindow touchscreen Overlays on the LCD. This provides a solution for the building owner to display energy efficiencies about LEED certified solutions used in the building.
“Providing the connectivity into internal building control systems using out of the box software, and 3D photo realistic graphics to display to the public, allows end users a cost effective way to display information,” said Dan McCarty, President of Quality Automation Graphics.
One such company that recently benefited from the touch technology, provided by NextWindow and the consulting services of Quality Automation Graphics, is Signature Advertising in Denver, Colo. They used this solution incorporating these interactive kiosks inside a condominium complex. “Our customers look to us to be on the cutting edge of design and technology,” said Karen Ruby, President/Director of Accounts. “With the recommendation from our value added reseller, we use NextWindow’s touch technology, incorporated in to large format LCD’s. This has allowed us to provide our content in a turnkey interactive display to our customers.”
“The kiosks can help a building owner answer questions such as why the building owner used green building products, and how it is benefiting the environment by conserving energy,” McCarty said. “This technology allows the public to easily interact with historical and live building data and access information quickly and easily using touchscreens.”
About Quality Automation Graphics
An industry leader in control systems graphic design for the building automation industry, Quality Automation Graphics has eight years of experience providing control graphic solutions. The company’s core competencies are graphic design services for the controls industry, focusing on: graphic design outsourcing services, 2D and 3D (for most building control software), 3D symbol library creation, graphic design standards development, and productivity tool design development. For more information, visit www.qagraphics.com
About NextWindow
NextWindow is an international leader in the design and manufacture of optical touchscreen overlays, and OEM touch components, from 12.1” to over 100”. NextWindow is a privately held company based out of Auckland, New Zealand, and has its U.S. headquarters in Chicago. For more information, visit www.nextwindow.com
