Comments by Ken Sinclair
Publisher - AutomatedBuildings.com

April   Organize, Standardize, Analyze, Visualize, then Monetize $

We live in interesting times. Who knew that our industry's organizational clarity would come from a cloud? And that this cloud would be better organized by a project called haystack. And the organizational output of the haystack would make the invisible visible which would lead to a new way to view and monetize the Building Automation Industry, OK I am done playing with words. Read this month's articles and interviews to see what set me off.

This month's cover picture Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle. When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it.

From Finding the Needle

Project Haystack is an open source initiative to develop tag naming conventions and taxonomies for modeling of building equipment and operational data. The project is developing standardized data models and tag libraries for sites, equipment, and points related to energy, HVAC, lighting, refrigeration and other environmental systems. Substantial libraries of tag names and proposed taxonomy models are already in place.

April articles

April Columns
Controls Devices (3 of 3)   Steven R. Calabrese;  Social Media & Building Automation   Manny Mandrusiak;  BAS Usability   Paul Ehrlich, Ira Goldschmidt & Angela Lewis;  Productive Load Banking  Toby Considine;  Making the Invisible Visible    Ken Sinclair

April Reviews
Weather visualization demonstrates our vision of data presentation ;  Across My Desk ;  Skyscraper Digital Signage Sparks Debate

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This month we welcome  Yorkland Controls has roots in distributing and warehousing heating control products such as Flame Safeguard and Burner and Boiler Management Systems. Over the past several years, we have expanded into new markets including Building Automation and more recently in Lighting Control Solutions .

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