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Here are just some of the exciting presentations you can expect to see at this year's Haystack Connect...

Track 1 – Haystack in Practice

The End-User Perspective & Real-World Applications

Transforming Building Operations
Jessica Granderson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Building fault detection and diagnostics technologies (FDD) are already saving owners millions of dollars per year in their buildings, with less than two-year paybacks. Berkeley Lab has joined forces with members of the Haystack community and FDD industry to newly integrate control capability with analytics, moving beyond FDD into automated fault correction and control optimization. This presentation will share the developed solutions, results from their use in diverse field applications, and their open-source Haxall dissemination. The presentation will also discuss the extensions of the work to automated functional testing and demand flexibility, and available technical assistance to transfer these methods industry technology and service providers, concluding with observations on the role of advanced analytics and controls in scaling building decarbonization, and semantic modeling as a key enabler.

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. 

Haystack Connect 2023
June 5-7, 2023
Nashville, Tennessee

Haystack Connect and Nashville...what a fantastic combination and opportunity to network, share your knowledge, and have a great time.

Project Haystack has been democratizing data for more than a decade. Join us as we continue our work towards true interoperability and unlocking the immense value of data. Haystack Connect has always been known for the quality of its technical program and this year is sure to be no exception. Featuring the best and brightest individuals in the building automation, energy efficiency, and IoT markets, the conference's dynamic presentations focus on real-world challenges in integrating diverse systems and data, and provide insights on current and future trends.

Attendees include the community of Project Haystack supporters encompassing engineers, developers and other professionals from leading technology suppliers, system integrators and service firms who come together to further advance the state-of-the-art of managing, presenting and analyzing the vast amounts of data generated by today’s IoT devices, smart equipment and systems. Connect, share ideas and build relationships with other members of the Haystack community who share your vision and passion.

This is an interactive, collaborative environment that allows new ideas to spring to life. Share your knowledge, let your voice be heard, and play a role in shaping the future of the building automation and IoT industries.

Share Your Knowledge, Ideas & Insights

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Haystack Connect is known for the quality of its technical program, which is driven by the Project Haystack community. Presentations focus on real-world challenges in integrating diverse systems and data, and are delivered by individuals leading the effort to streamline data interchange through the use of Project Haystack technology.

The place for the Project Haystack community to network, share, create synergy, and generate business opportunities.

Haystack Connect 2023—organized and produced by the Project Haystack Organization—provides a unique, open-forum for professionals involved in automation, control and the Internet of Things to learn and share the latest technologies and techniques for connecting systems and utilizing device data in applications including intelligent buildings, energy management, remote monitoring, and other IoT devices and applications.

The two-and-a-half-day long conference includes keynote presentations, a vendor exhibition hall, and a packed schedule of technical sessions covering data acquisition, communications, protocol translation, data visualization, analytics, data semantics, modeling and security—all critical technologies essential to using operational data to drive improved performance.

The building automation system marketplace is going through a rapid wave of digitalization, and demand is increasing as end users and owner/operators increasingly focus on sustainability related issues like reducing energy consumption, net zero emissions, and preserving the health and safety of personnel.