Project Haystack Press Releases

Richmond, VA – May 13, 2020 – The Project Haystack Organization (www.project-haystack.org), a collaborative community addressing the challenge of utilizing semantic modeling and tagging to streamline the interchange of data among different systems, devices, equipment and software applications, today announced they have published the seventh issue of their Connections Magazine.

The Connections Magazine Spring 2020 reports on the latest news from the Project Haystack community from around the world and documents how their mission "Making Data Easy to Work With", is addressing one of the most important challenges of the entire building and facilities management industry. Facility owners, operators, managers and service companies recognize that a standardized approach to semantic data modeling is key to overcoming the hurdles related to effectively using the data produced by the built environment. Many of the articles in this issue were written by end users including design consultants, commissioning experts, smart building consultants, property managers and developers – all of whom are demanding smarter, interoperable solutions. This issue also focuses on companies that are responding by providing Haystack-compatible products and solutions.

Richmond, VA - January 21, 2020 - Project Haystack (www.project-haystack.org), a collaborative community addressing the challenge of utilizing semantic modeling and tagging to streamline the interchange of data among different systems, devices, equipment and software applications, today announced the latest companies joining the growing list of Project Haystack Associate Members and Project Haystack will be presenting one of the free educational industry sessions sponsored by automatedbuildings.com during AHR Expo 2020, Haystack 4 - What it is and Why it Matters, on Tuesday, February 4th.

Resolute Building Intelligence and KODE Labs are the latest companies to join the Project Haystack Organization. 

Richmond, VA – October 30, 2019 – The Project Haystack Organization (www.project-haystack.org),  a collaborative community addressing the challenge of utilizing semantic modeling and tagging to streamline the interchange of data among different systems, devices, equipment and software applications, today announced they have published the sixth issue of their Connections Magazine.

The Connections Magazine Fall 2019 issue reports on the latest news from the Project Haystack community from around the world and documents how rapidly the data revolution is overtaking the built environment. Both IT and OT contingents are recognizing that sematic data modeling and metadata tagging is key to clearing the hurdles related to ease-of-use, unified data flow, edge-to-cloud, and data security. Not to be missed is the fact that the storytellers in this issue include the end users of the data generated by equipment systems including commissioning experts, smart building consultants, large-portfolio property managers and developers – all of whom are demanding smarter, interoperable solutions, and companies that are responding by providing Haystack-compatible products and solutions

Richmond, VA - May 6, 2019 - Project Haystack (www.project-haystack.org), a collaborative community addressing the challenge of utilizing semantic modeling and tagging to streamline the interchange of data among different systems, devices, equipment and software applications, today announced today announced that Haystack 4, the next generation of the Project Haystack data modeling standard, is now in public review.

"Understanding the need for semantic modeling of device and equipment data has matured significantly in the last decade and the requirements and techniques for applying semantic modeling to equipment data are advancing rapidly. Haystack 4 builds on the 8 years of experience in applying Haystack across thousands of buildings worldwide, the input from practitioners in the community throughout that time, as well the collaborators that have participated in the activities of Haystack Working Groups," said John Petze, Executive Director of Project Haystack.