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The Project Haystack organizations is pleased to announce the publication of the eighth issue of the Project Haystack Connections Magazine! It is a true testament to the mission that the Haystack Community is committed to and highlights many of the accomplishments that have been made over the past six months. We feel it is especially relevant during these challenging times as we redefine how we work and manage the built environment.

The theme of our Fall 2020 issue is 'Making It All Work Together'. It holds another collection of articles contributed by Project Haystack members and supporters that include CM Industrial, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Intelligent Buildings Group, BAS Services & Graphics, BrainBox AI, BuildingFit, Conserve It and J2 Innovations.

Project Haystack  is excited to announce an important new resource, part of the new Haystack 4 Developers website (https://project-haystack.dev), called Examples (https://project-haystack.dev/example).

This resource of Examples, addresses requests from many members of the community to have access to actual examples of fully-tagged Haystack projects.

We are excited to announce a new Associate Member has joined Project Haystack. Please welcome e-Magic.

e-Magic Inc. specializes in providing expertise and software for design, development and integration of large scale Industrial IoT systems globally.

e-Magic solutions run on-premise, as well as in the Microsoft Azure Cloud.

The Project Haystack organizations is pleased to announce the publication of the seventh issue of the Project Haystack Connections Magazine! It is a true testament to the mission that the Haystack Community is committed to and highlights many of the accomplishments that have been made over the past six months. We feel it is especially relevant during these challenging times as we redefine how we work and manage the built environment.

The theme of our Spring 2020 issue is 'The Mission: Making Data Easy to Work With'. It holds another collection of articles, Project Haystack members and supporters that include Charlton Morris, Newcomb & Boyd Consultants and Engineers and Georgia Tech, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Intelligent Buildings Group, Altura Associates, Johnson Controls, Lynxspring, Tridium, J2 Innovations, Widesky, and Siemens.

We are excited to announce a new Associate Member has joined Project Haystack. Please welcome BrainBox AI.

BrainBox AI is producing remarkable energy savings using AI to continuously make micro-adjustments to existing building HVAC systems. It monitors a multitude of data points and then makes decisions about how to optimize the HVAC system in real-time. This process of continual monitoring, assessment, and adjustment is being achieved with advanced deep learning methodologies and understanding of the HVAC environment.

On February 4, 2020, John Petze, Executive Director and Marc Petock, Executive Secretary of the Project Haystack organization, in cooperation with automatedbuildings.com, conducted a free educational session "Haystack 4 - The Continued Evolution of Semantic Tagging – What it Is and Why it Matters".