One word, DATA.
Data. It’s transforming everything. Data has changed the way companies in every industry do business and manage performance. Data is now an irreplaceable asset. And data has never been more important in delivering today’s smart buildings.
However, a challenge that continues within smart buildings involves the vast differences in how data is identified and named. Definitions are often different, depending on the manufacturer, vendor, or other stakeholders describing the building data.
Data can be bewildering and meaningless. We have so much data available at our fingertips, what are the real pieces of data we truly need and what is just noise? When it comes to data, we need to move past “data drowning” and get to a point where we are automating the collecting, sorting, and exchanging of critical information that directly correlates to improving our operations and meets our business outcomes.
The challenge is to make the data available in the right format and deliver it to the right person at the right place and time within a secure environment. This is the basic requirement to create a data value chain. To realize the full value of data, it must be collected securely, in a timely manner, standardized in the correct format, made ready to be used, put in context with operations and events and presented to the right persons at the right time to enable timely decision-making.
Add to that, the amount of data created by the equipment, systems and devices that make up a smart building has exploded; Today’s automation systems and smart devices produce tremendous amounts of data to the point where we have expanded our reach to a range of devices that can gather and analyze physical data and react to that data in a variety of applications that we’ve never seen before.
Data can be very hard to organize and use across different applications because it is stored in many different formats; has inconsistent naming conventions and very limited data descriptors. It lacks information to describe the meaning of the data. And without meaning, a time-consuming manual effort is required before analysis and value creation can begin. And without proper analytics, this data is not useful.
The challenge is to make the data available in the right format and deliver it to the right person at the right place and time within a secure environment. This is the basic requirement to create a data value chain. To realize the full value of data, it must be collected securely, in a timely manner, standardized in the correct format, made ready to be used, put in context with operations and events and presented to the right persons at the right time to enable timely decision-making.
To help with homogenizing these definitions and democratizing data, Project Haystack, an open-source standard has been leading the way to make working with building data easier to work with and more efficient.
One of the major activities Project Haystack undertakes is Haystack Connect. Haystack Connect provides a unique opportunity for professionals involved in building automation, control, operations and yes, data, to learn and share the latest techniques for connecting systems and utilizing device data in applications, including intelligent buildings, energy management, remote monitoring, and other smart-device applications.
This year’s Haystack Connect 2023 is taking place in Nashville, June 5-7.
Come join the many sponsors and attendees to learn from domain experts, control engineers, developers and building owners and operators who will be sharing their knowledge and expertise on several key important data subject areas within the built environment.
Some of the subjects to be covered include:
- How Haystack Is Extending the Value of Data
- Specifying Haystack
- A New Era for Data-Interoperability and Convergence-Haystack’s Role in a Data Strategy, Digital Twins, IDL, ESG, Analytics, Data Governance, De-Carbonization
- Haystack in Practice in the Built Environment
- Haystack 4 Roadmap
- Working Group Updates
- And More!
Pitch Fest----A Fast Paced, Rapid Fire look at New Products and Services Using Haystack
To find out more, visit www.haystackconnect.org.
The Call for Speakers closes soon. Be sure to submit your proposal and be sure to register! It's going to be a great event for education, networking and fun. Visit the Haystack Connect 2023 website to register or submit to speak.