Project-Haystack:A community-driven solution to make

device data easy to use

Making data self-describing so applications just work

Wednesday July 22, 2015

Project Haystack Is…

A community of people working to address one of the key challenges in using smart device data… Most device data has poor “semantic modeling” simply put -

information that describes the meaning of the data A manual, labor intensive process is required to "map" the data

before it can be used in different applications

This adds cost and slows the use of this valuable data Project Haystack vision: A standardized methodology

for describing data will make it easier and more cost effective to analyze, visualize, and derive value from our operational data

Project Haystack Is… A methodology for defining the meaning of smart

device data • A growing set of standard equipment models

developed by consensus of the community• A highly efficient REST API that makes it easy to

exchange Haystack tagged data among applications• Software applications and reference

implementations for node.js, C++, Dart, Java, Niagara

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Tagging helps add value to the connected world

Connected Equipment

Smart Devices

Integrated Applications

Visualization

Analytics

Enterprise Services

Control Systems Cloud Services

Maintenance Management

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An Example: The Haystack Community at Work

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Tags Define the Data Produced by Devices

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Tags Describe Relationship Between Equipment

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Tags Enable Rapid Generation of Visualizations

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Using Tags Streamline the Application of Analytics

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Tags Enable data to be used in other Applications

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Using Tags for Enterprise Services

Flexibility: Architectures Using Haystack

Tags exist in end devices

Tags exist in network controllers

Tags applied in server level application

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