First, Happy New Year to everyone!!

One of our members ran across this blog article and thought it worthy of being shared with the rest of our Haystack Community.

It is written by 

JAMES DICE

energy efficiency innovator

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

You can learn more about them at www.kodelabs.com.

We greatly appreciate their commitment to support the work of Project Haystack!

Desigo Optic is built on Haystack 4, which offers a standardized tagging model that helps simplify the data, leading to more powerful results.

Desigo Optic, powered by FIN Framework, provides a highly-efficient building automation solution with enhanced integration across numerous third-party systems. With Project Haystack semantic data models and tagging features, Desigo Optic offers better workflows for integration, creation of graphics, trend analysis and overall building management. Built for small to medium-sized buildings, but scalable to grow with the building and property portfolio’s needs.

We are excited to announce a new Associate Member has joined Project Haystack. Please welcome Resolute Building Intelligence.

You can learn more about them at www.resolutebi.com.

We greatly appreciate their commitment to support the work of Project Haystack!

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. 

Update on Project Haystack, the Haystack methodology and haystack tagging in 2019!

Project Haystack

Stand G11

Smart Buildings Show 2019 promises to be bigger and better than ever, with more stands, conference presentations and visitors than ever before.

Attendance for the 2018 show was up 45 per cent with visitors coming from all over the UK and Europe. John Hatcher, conference director, commented, "We had a great exhibition and conference, with the theatres at full capacity for both days. There is clearly a thirst for knowledge in the smart buildings industry and we will be adding an additional theatre this year."

This year the show will be moving to Olympia, London on 9-10 October 2019 to accommodate the increased footfall and more exhibitors.

Claire Hatchett, sales manager said, "We have already booked more stands and space than last year. We anticipate selling all the available stands, so if you are thinking of exhibiting please contact me as soon as possible. Smart Buildings Show 2019 promises to be our biggest and best event yet.”

Eric Stromquist and Ken Smyers of ControlTrends interview John Petze and Marc Petock prior to the Haystack Connect 2019 conference and exhibition, taking place May 13-15, 2019 at Paradise Point Resort in San Diego, California. The website is www.haystackconnect.org!

Haystack Connect 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.

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.

Richmond, VA - February 28, 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 the launch of its new marketing website marketing.project-haystack.org. The new site, which went live on February 25th, features a modern and sophisticated design to promote the vast marketing activities driven by the growing Haystack community and focused on promoting the value of smart data and semantic tagging.

To date, the website of the Project Haystack Organization has been solely for the developer community, featuring updates on semantic tagging, forum discussions and activities of the Working Groups.