What Is Project Haystack?

Today’s automation systems, equipment, metering systems, smart devices and IoT applications produce tremendous amounts of data.

This data can be very hard to organize and use across different applications because it is stored in many different formats; has inconsistent naming conventions and very limited data descriptors. In essence it lacks information to describe the meaning of the data. And without meaning a time-consuming manual effort is required before value creation can begin.

Taking cues from other data intensive applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Google and others who utilize tags and semantic data models, the work developed by the Project-Haystack community addresses this challenge by defining and easy to use methodology to describe the meaning of data. This enables software applications to automatically consume, analyze and present data from devices and equipment systems.

The open source Project Haystack effort has streamlined the interchange of data and the techniques for managing, presenting and analyzing the vast amount of data generated by today’s smart devices and building and energy systems.

BASSG Applications leveraging Haystack

Air Hippo

Air HIPPO

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Monitor your customer's buildings, lower utility and maintenance costs, boost your productivity with minimal human intervention.

Connect effortlessly to a variety of source systems, data from SaaS applications, static CSV files, and Alerton trend data. There is no need to deal with a customers's IT department. As long as the data provider is able to reach the Internet, AirHippo can just push new data to an analytics server safely.

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Air Hippo features

AirHippo is a great tool that may help other SkySpark integrators overcome the cost and IT hassle hurdle of gathering remote data. It lets you focus on your actual customer's problems by handing over mundane details of operations to machines.

Quick Deployment

You just setup the source of data, point AirHippo to an analytics server where to push data and you are good to go!Nothing from the outside needs to know about your network internals, no port opening, no setting up DMZ, no connections from the outside of your network.

No Duplicate Trending

Once trends have been set up by the BAS, historical data are there to be analyzed. AirHippo keeps the track what's been pushed and never creates duplicates.

No Data Loss

You don't have to be worried of losing the data that your source systems had sent out already. AirHippo can buffer and keep the data in its transaction logs during an outage. It never skips a beat.

Robust in Unrealiable Networks

Once trends have been set up by the BAS, historical data are there to be analyzed. AirHippo keeps the track what's been pushed and never creates duplicates.

Lower Costs

You don't have to buy additional RDBMS modules for your existing BAS solution. You can use AirHippo to quickly and more cost effectively push data to your SkySpark installation.

There is also a Micro License available (100 BAS points) to quickly show and evaluate the power of analytics.

No Additional Hardware

You don't need to purchase, wire and setup any additional hardware. AirHippo simply runs on your existing BAS server.

Recent Testimonials

“We have been using Air Hippo to "push" Alerton trend data to a remote SkySpark SaaS application. In the past we have been collecting data with JACEs, Air Hippo allows for a quicker deployment because it is simply a software install on the BAS server. Air Hippo has been working great and gives us the advertised benefits.

Air Hippo allows for a quicker deployment because it is simply a software install on the BAS server and eliminates the necessity to deal with the local site IT department.”

Pete Segall, ATS Automation

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PB Plus

Project Builder Plus for SkySpark

Work-flow & data push enhancement software!

Fantom based desktop application with templates, syncronization, haystack library, time-series data push & so much more.

• Maintain multiple project from one interface.
• Create projects offline without SkySpark.
• Create templates of equipment (Ahu, Rtu, Power Meters)
• Pull SkySpark db from an existing SkySpark.
• Use PB+ for quick project sizing for capacities needed.
• Map obix points to records.
• Import existing obix connections from SkySpark projects.
• Save connection data and passwords into project for quick edit.

Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac!

 

Create Template Types

Template types are hierarchical definition of
different application layers.

For example
Site -> Equip -> Point
Site -> Meter -> Submeter
Country -> State -> City -> Branch
-> Equip -> Point

 

 

Create Templates of
equipment, meters, solar...

Create ones assign to sites in a few clicks.

 

 

Push Haystack schema from
SkySpark, vice versa

Upload haystack schema from PB Plus to SkySpark

Download haystack schema from SkySpark to PB plus

 

 

Obix Connection Mapping
Live (cur) or Historical

Automatically map live data (cur) for version 2.0
System automatically checks if there is history.
(Only in Case)

 

 

SQL connection
Hierarchy generation & data sync

Upload haystack schema from PB Plus to SkySpark

Download haystack schema from SkySpark to PB plus

 

 

Templatize existing
schemas

Automatically map live data (cur) for version 2.0
System automatically checks if there is history.
(Only in Case)

 

 

Display Name Handlers
Change dis values
based on markers

This simplifies and standardizes the names on the records.

 

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Energy DVR

A Customizable Look of the History of Your Data

EnergyDVR by BASSG is the ideal way to view the history of your system’s data in a customizable, 3D graphical format.

Why do you need EnergyDVR?

No building owner or facility manager has the time to continuously monitor the performance of a BAS for anomalies or abnormalities. But catching and correcting issues is the only way to ensure systems perform at optimal levels.

EnergyDVR (or “Energy Data Visualization Recorder”) is an energy management solution that lets you rewind, pause, play and fast forward through the history of your systems to view performance, much in the same way you control playback of a movie on your home TV or DVD player. You no longer have to comb through trendlogs to find the source of an anomaly and the conditions associated with it. You can simply rewind EnergyDVR to the point in time that the issue occurred down to the second, and get a complete view of the environment and conditions at that time.

No other solution offers the convenience and depth of information of EnergyDVR.

An Easy-to-View and Customizable Interface

Going beyond simple but tedious graphs and numbers, EnergyDVR gives you a 3D-based graphical interface that provides an easily understood visualization of your entire system. You can view your Floor Plan, Plant, Air Handling Units (AHUs), Variable Air Volumes (VAVs) and more.

You can also experience trends in the performance of your facility’s functions, selecting which ones to review through a drag-and-drop tool, going back one day, one week, one month, six months or one year in the system’s history. EnergyDVR even lets you compare these trends to multiple points in time to better spot opportunities for improvement.

All of this functionality is provided in a single, simple-to-navigate dashboard that can be shared with necessary facilities personnel.

Finally, EnergyDVR is highly customizable, letting you design the solution to meet your specific needs or select from a pre-designed template. You have the ability to design EnergyDVR to your exact facility and the needs of your organization – all with a few clicks of the mouse.

Easily Integrated into Your Facility

EnergyDVR runs in the Niagara Framework PX, and is integrated with SkyFoundry’s SkySpark analytics platform. EnergyDVR is available as an add-on package to the BASSG PX-Dashboard and can be loaded into existing JACE (versions 3.4 and up) and Supervisor front-ends.

To see a demo of EnergyDVR, visit http://bas.co/l or contact BASSG for more information.