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Day 1 – Tuesday, Nov 13
PLENARY SESSION
The IoT is Distributed Computing Challenge
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Deploying Distributed Analytics – Demonstration of SkySpark Everywhere distributed architecture
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Seamless Cluster-Aware Applications
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Replication in Clustered Systems
GENERAL SESSION
- Update on major new features & roadmap
- Haystack Update
- Market Impact of the SkyFoundry Community
Day 2 – Wednesday, Nov 14
TRACK 1 – SESSION 1
Applications at the Intersection of Analytics and Control
In this session, community members will present examples of applications where the results of analytics are being coupled with control actions to execute changes in the operation of building systems.
SPEAKERS
Jon Schoenfeld
The Belimo Energy Valve is a revolutionary product that combines a BTU meter and valve to provide incredible insight into a building’s energy use, allowing for reduced plant water flow and lower delta T, improving plant efficiency. However, since it was released in 2012, contractors and building owners have struggled to collect months of data and connect each valve to the internet in order to use Belimo’s optimization tool and truly maximize the product’s benefits. Not anymore!
Alper Uzmezler
Hardware independent, tag based controls with Project SandStar which merges SkySpark, the Sedona framework with Project Haystack into a seamless whole. This enables fundamental changes to BMS industry. This enables fundamental changes to BMS industry: Hardware agnostic direct digital controls, Meta-morphing direct digital controls | 1 DDC file for many types of equipment, Tag based historical roll-up – Spark (Analytics) result based DDC change, Abstraction for Analytics – Visuals and Mobile apps and more…
David Unger
Sentient Buildings is working at the cross section of smart home IoT, building operations, and energy management in the NYC area. At Urban American’s BSREP buildings, Sentient’s IoT installation and software “Neuro” are improving efficiency, tenant comfort, and equipment operations while reducing environmental impacts and utility costs. Approximately 1,700 apartments across 12 sites were retrofitted with IoT, wireless, and batteryless thermostats to remotely monitor and control over 6,200 electric baseboard heaters, saving approximately 20% energy-wise and improving tenant comfort. The building management now has a real time portal for managing heating units that utilizes Skyspark as the back end system and makes full use of its distributed architecture across sites. Features include advanced settings and scheduling capabilities, issue tracking, analytics, reporting, critical insights, and work order management.
TRACK 2 – SESSION 1
SkySpark Developer Workshop
Folio, Clustering, Replication & XQuery
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Deep dive into the Folio database architecture
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Arcbeam and clustering review
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Arcbeam isolation
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Arcbeam’s new streamlined approval process
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Replication deep-dive
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XQuery review
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XQuery enhancements for routing and tracing
TRACK 1 – SESSION 2
10:30-11:15am
Applications at the Intersection of Human Activity
The majority of issues identified through the use of analytics require human action to address. Driving that workflow requires effectively communicating results to users—from technicians and building engineers, to energy managers and financial managers. Presentations in this session will focus on the use of visualization tools to communicate and drive the workflow process.
SPEAKERS
Adam Roloff, Altura Associates
As HVAC and controls engineers we live and breathe building analytics data, however it’s easy to forget that for many of the folks managing these properties, there is very limited time to spare beyond executing on their current business workflows and daily duties. Understanding how existing business processes can be leveraged so that building analytics can become a natural part of the larger process is critical to its success as a tool. Our discussion will focus on some of the strategies, tools, lessons learned that have come from reaching out to the folks on the other side of the equation: including facilities O&M staff, energy managers, and capital project planners.
Derek McGarry, PointGuard
The Pathway to Value – Key Ingredients for Success in Analytics. Let’s be real, analytics can be intimidating and complicated. This discussion will explore common barriers and issues that get in the way of delivering value from analytics. We will share lessons learned from the field, and what key ingredients improve the chances for success. Discussion will include exploration of: managed services vs software-only; role of service contractors vs commissioning engineers vs property managers vs facility engineers; KPI’s that matter; people dynamics.
11:15am-12:00pm
The Most Amazing Analytics Findings of All Time
This session will be conducted as a series of 10-minute, rapid fire presentations by community members. Prizes will be awarded based on attendee votes! This was one of our most exciting sessions at SkyPosium 2017 and is back by popular demand.
SPEAKERS
Cory Mosiman, Smart Building Specialist, WSP USA
Building performance metrics have traditionally been evaluated from a facility management perspective, with the overall goal of reducing energy consumption and/or peak demand. Moreover, commercial office spaces are often largely underutilized, and energy consumption isn’t considered in conjunction with how well the building is used/occupied. This presentation will offer a new method for analysis of the building energy consumption in conjunction with the objective space utilization, offering new opportunities for FDD and energy performance validation.
Celeste Cizik
1. Utilizing SkySpark analytics to detect and repair HVAC equipment in a middle school in Denver
2. Detecting and Correcting Economizer Operation
Paul Quinn
SkySpark – Core to Efficiency in a Major New Airport
TRACK 2 – SESSION 2
SkySpark Developer Workshop
Session 2A – Energy App 3.0 & Tariff Engine
- Cluster aware capabilities
- Configuring meter points
- New features in the Energy app views
- Creating tariffs
- Tariff best practices
- Advanced features of the tariffCost() function
Session 2B – New Rule Ext
- New rule engine introduced in 3.0.15
- Migration from 2.1 spark/kpi engine
- Review new Rule, Spark, and KPI apps
- Review new 3.0 navigation model and tools
TRACK 1 – SESSION 3
Utility Rates & Tariffs – Perspectives on a Changing Landscape, Business Impacts and the Role of the SkySpark Tariff Engine
The SkySpark Tariff Engine is a powerful tool. In this session community members show examples of their application of the Tariff engine to calculate energy costs in real world projects.
SPEAKERS
Power Markets, Utility Rate Programs and the Role of Analytics and Controls. National, regional and local power markets are evolving rapidly based on legislative, regulatory and energy policy changes. As well, emerging renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, storage, along with weather and consumer demand create increasingly complex scenarios of supply, pricing, and risk. These factors drive the costs of electricity in complex ways, impacting the opportunities for analytics and control technologies. Analytics need to go beyond fault detection and HVAC operations to be relevant in today’s sophisticated energy economy to provide building owners with a clear understanding of how their buildings operate in context of market dynamics. This enables them to make informed decisions on how to buy and use energy. All of this creates business opportunities for the community.
Stephanie Fetchen
Why should we integrate electric rates with SkySpark? How should we best go about it? Building automation systems and smart meters play a key role in achieving energy efficiency and cost savings for facility owners and operators. Historically, the majority of the reports and quantifications related to energy use are shown in kWh and kW. As rates become more complex pure kWh and kW information is not adequate to support the optimal use of energy and its costs. For, example in some rate programs operators can achieve lower overall costs by using more kWh to help avoid kW demand peaks. They key to these types of analysis is to combine tariff rate data with consumption and demand data. The inclusion of detailed electric rate information in SkySpark enables us to translate kWh and kW into dollars. Providing saving and/or cost information in dollars is much more meaningful to our end users than seeing it in kWh or kW. SkySpark has a tariff engine, but you need rate data to take advantage of it. But rates can be complex, hard to access and presented in many different formats. Complexity in electric rates is caused by the availability of multiple rate options, as well varying levels of details within each rate schedule. So how do you gather the data you need to include electric rates in SkySpark? In this discussion, we will address all of these issues, and options to simplify the inclusion of rates in your systems.
Matthew Giannini
The SkySpark Tariff Engine and Energy App Tariff Views
TRACK 2 – SESSION 3
SkySpark Developer Workshop
Haystack Kind System
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Requirements and progress of WG 551
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Deep dive into proposed “kind system”
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New PHD definition language
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Bi-directional modeling of relationships
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Filter language enhancements
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RDF export
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What does this mean for SkySpark?
TRACK 1 – SESSION 4
3:30-4:25pm
ViewBuilder Bake Off
The community competes to show off examples of the best use of ViewBuilder to create custom Apps, Views and Reports. Speakers will be provided with 10 minutes for rapid fire presentations. Prizes will be awarded based on attendee votes!
SPEAKERS
Jerry Weatherhogg
The “Commissioner” a View Builder App that can be used as either a commissioning tool to trend I/O point values, or as a way to quickly build and deploy SkySpark projects in existing BACnet environments.
Jake MacArthur
Different methods of displaying KPIs around avg, min and max zone air CO2.
Jay Herron
A Utility Benchmarking app provides a high level view of building performance using only historical utility bills and weather data. Users easily can graph utility consumption and cost across time, adjust for different billing lengths, and normalize by site area and weather. Weather is normalized by calculating a baseline regression using cooling degree days, heating degree days, or both over a defined time period, and then applying the baseline to the displayed time period. Facility usage can be compared with the weather baseline, allowing the user to determine if performance has improved or degraded. Multiple sites can be graphed together to compare operation over time, determine underperforming buildings of a portfolio, and prioritize improvements.
Justin Davies
Energy Information dashboards with SkySpark View Builder
Phil Birch
Haystack Tagging Application – This View Builder application uses the project haystack tagging standard to assist in applying tags and names to points in SkySpark. This is done using the haystack tagging standard and regular expression (REGEX). The application first uses these REGEX expressions to attempt to find matches for equipment. A simple UI allows the user to apply the necessary tags with the press of a button, along with applying any other descriptive tags (like “variableVolume”). The application then moves on to tagging the points under these equipment. Using REGEX and equipment association the application attempts to find matches for each point. The UI allows the user to tag these points by a simple button press. If any points did not find a match, they are sorted into an “unknown points” list which the user can then select the point definition and tag them accordingly.
Celeste Cizik
Portfolio Analysis for a Major Resort – Combining energy data and benchmarking to create an “Opportunity Rating” for ECM’s.
4:25-5:15pm
Applying Machine Learning and Other Advanced Math and Analytic Techniques
It’s one of the most talked about topics in data analytics. Yet it’s not magic. Utilizing Machine Learning requires an understanding of the concepts of the various ML tools and the types of problem and data sets it is applicable to. In this session community members discuss their application of Machine Learning.
SPEAKERS
Matthew Giannini
Introduction to Machine Learning functions in SkySpark
Sean Stackhouse
One Class Support Vector Machine Learning (SVM) is a type of unsupervised machine learning that allows for detection of outlying data. The benefit is that we do not have to define out what the out of range values are, the model will find them automatically. Rather the number of outliers found can be adjusted with a simple sensitivity value. Once an “ideal” model is created for a set of data, the model can be applied to similar sensors or equipment and issues identified.
We’ve integrated One Class SVM through R. Combined with viewbuilder, we can view the anomalies, see the trends, tune and save the model, and identify issues. From there, engineering expertise can input the cause of the issue. Future machine learning can utilize the data to create more powerful, supervised learning models.
Adam Wallen
Calculus and Signal Analysis Functions
3:30-5:15pm
TRACK 2 – SESSION 4
SkySpark Developer Workshop
Session 4A – BACnet
- Introduction of BACnet protocol
- Review features of BACnet connector
- Device addressing and ping
- BACnet tuning
- BACnet debugging techniques
Session 4B – View Builder
- Fresco View architecture
- View Builder walk through
- Templates
- Exporting
- Chart customization
- Icons
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