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VYKON Honors Distributors

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS January 25, 2009 – Today, in a long standing tradition at their annual distributors meeting held in conjunction with the AHR Expo, VYKON, Tridium’s facility automation distribution channel, announced the recipients of several performance and growth awards. The award-winning distributors were honored during a dinner with their industry peers.

All VYKON Authorized Distributors are considered for award recognition based on sales volume, projects implemented, technical competency, marketing excellence and continued commitment to supporting VYKON’s open, intelligent automation and control solutions. These awards reflect the importance that VYKON places on the distribution channel in supporting worldwide growth.

The Summit Award for the highest performing distributor of the year went to Activelogix of Charlotte, North Carolina. Greg Barnes, vice president of Activelogix said, “We are honored to receive this recognition. For us this achievement is a reflection of a lot of hard work from our entire organization, and our customers who see value in using VYKON solutions for their automation and control business with Activelogix. This award is a great foundation for continued success in the coming years.”

Receiving Platinum honors for outstanding achievement were, Cochrane Supply & Engineering, Madison Heights, Michigan; Controlco, Concord, California and Activelogix. Elite Distributor distinction went to Control Consultants, Weymouth, Massachusetts and Long Building Technologies, Englewood, Colorado and the award for Innovator Distributors were presented to Universal Supply Group, Hawthorne, New Jersey; BITS, Waukesha, Wisconsin and Energy Systems Technologies, Grofton, Maryland.

In presenting the awards, Ed Merwin, field sales director for VYKON, congratulated the winners and thanked all of the distributors for their contribution to the business. “These awards were very closely contested and it is a privilege to recognize all of our distributors who earned them. “It is a strong testament to our full commitment and engagement at every level with our network of VYKON partners.”

About Activelogix

Activelogix LLC is a leading provider of Internet-based enterprise automation solutions, including design services, consulting, custom applications and technologies to enable management and optimization of intelligent, energy-efficient, and secure facilities in a multi-vendor, cross platform environment.

Founded in 2002, Activelogix has become one of the fastest growing technology companies in the Southeast, focused on solutions for sustainable energy and facility management. Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Activelogix is a value-added distributor of the Niagara Framework®, throughout the Southeast. Activelogix founders are former employees of Tridium, Inc. and have extensive experience in the design and support of Niagara™ based systems. Activelogix is also a certified NiagaraAX Developer and Vykon Security Partner (VSP). Our primary role is to support our contractor partners in the design and use of the Niagara Framework. We also provide similar services for a growing family of complimentary infrastructure, sensor and actuator components from our world-class suppliers.

Our software and hardware solutions are distributed to end users through a growing channel of distributors, systems integrators and original equipment manufacturers. Typical customer applications include providing real time decision support information to enterprise systems from manufacturing, building automation, energy, or maintenance systems. We excel in our ability to marry rapidly changing information and network technologies with the broad experience of our partners.

Additional information about Activelogix is available on the web at www.activelogix.com.

About VYKON by Tridium

VYKON® by Tridium is open intelligent building automation and control solutions that meet all the challenges of real-world integration and enterprise connectivity and ensures complete interoperability among diverse facility systems.

Powered by the Niagara Framework, VYKON Solutions enable facility managers, building owners, and systems integrators to integrate proprietary and otherwise incompatible products into a unified enterprise solution through the synchronization, management and control of major building system functions vital in a facility, such as heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, energy, lighting, security, fire, safety and more.

VYKON solutions are available worldwide through a network of authorized distributors, systems integrators and value-added resellers. More information is available at www.vykon.com

 

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