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

4 Tagging helps add value to the connected world

5 An Example: The Haystack Community at Work

6 Tags Define the Data Produced by Devices

7 Tags Describe Relationship Between Equipment

8 Tags Enable Rapid Generation of Visualizations

9 Using Tags Streamline the Application of Analytics

10 Tags Enable data to be used in other Applications

11 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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