AutomatedBuildings.com Article - What Will I Learn at Haystack Connect 2017?

The Haystack Connect event is known for its solid, “no-fluff” technical program. The speakers address real-world challenges and solutions in integrating data from diverse devices and systems into solutions for facility owners and operators and Internet of Things applications. This year’s conference theme is “Where Data Gets Real,” and the program for the event will maintain the high standards that have been set for the previous two conferences. Here are just a few examples of topics already on the Haystack Connect 2017 program. Note: The Call for Speakers is still open:

Haystack 3.0 Meta Model: a review of the enhancements to the fundamental data types used by Haystack including nested collection types, XStr, and NA. We will also cover how these data types are encoded into Zinc, Trio, and the new JSON encoding.

The Haystack 3.0 Authentication Model: This session will provide an in-depth look at the new Haystack server authentication protocol for security. Topics covered will include a detailed review of the specification with an emphasis on implementing in external systems and devices and porting to other languages.

Major Additions to the Haystack Tagging Library and Equipment System Models. Two major additions were made recently – a comprehensive model for electrical distribution equipment, and a tagging model for boiler systems. Speakers will review both models and the process the community domain experts used in developing them.

Secure Network Infrastructure for Smart Connected Buildings: Creating a secure perimeter to protect the BAS, securing the transport layer to avoid any DDOS attack, isolating every data stream from the BAS to avoid breaches.

Network Analytics: the Next Big Thing to improve performance and reliability of building systems: With multiple vendors collaborating on converged networks with thousands of devices, understanding how healthy your building system is a tough challenge. The rise in analytics and big data analysis has lead to major advancements in energy efficiency and fault diagnostics and detection. Network analysis at the protocol level is key to anticipating problems, understanding root causes, and ensuring a healthy system. Discover what these advancements look like, where they are going, and what the impact will be for you.

The Building IoT: Understanding the building blocks of Building IoT and how to start developing them into buildings today. How big data, data plumbing, cyber security and functional integrations are changing the way we operate buildings.

Integrating Haystack tagging into data visualization, project engineering, and tenant billing software to streamline the project implementation process.

End User Benefits of Haystack Tagging: Project Haystack methodologies are used in millions and millions of square feet of commercial buildings and facilities of all types and sizes. Project teams are rewarded with a higher quality of data; reduced costs, less time to implement and reduced risk. We are often asked, what are the benefits and value driven by Project Haystack methodology for end users? This session will identify the benefits and value via real world examples.

Using Time Series Data in Analysis of Building Systems. Time-series data from sensors and equipment systems is a powerful source of knowledge and insight waiting to be unlocked. When harnessed, it can reveal actionable trends, patterns, variability, rates of change, cycles, exceptions, anomalies, and outliers. This presentation will review time series data in terms of how it relates to Haystack methodologies and how to make use of it.

We see from industry forums that many people are still new to the topic of tagging and metadata in general and often misunderstand what the Haystack Community is doing. Haystack is not a rigid, standard naming convention for control points and it’s not proprietary in any way. All the work of Project-Haystack.org is open source, and Haystack tagging can be used to “markup” data in media from a spreadsheet to a database to a communication protocol. It’s also highly flexible allowing users to add any tags they need for their unique applications.

Data is here to stay and will affect every part of the BAS, energy management, and IoT market. It’s been proven that data can provide real, tangible value when used with analytics and data visualization tools. The challenge that Haystack tagging solves is to “mark up” the data to give it meaning so it can be easily used across applications of all types. That’s the reason for the work of the Project Haystack community, and Haystack Connect is the place to learn all about it. We encourage systems integrators, controls professionals, engineering consultants, to attend the event and get first-hand exposure to the why and how of data tagging.

You can find full details on the event, including Early Bird registration, sponsorships and the Call for Speakers at the haystack Haystack Connect 2017 website here: https://haystackconnect.org/

We hope you can join us.

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