SME Workshop | How Open-Source Tools Are Changing Smart Buildings

Did you miss our August Subject Matter Expert workshop? Catch the replay here! We heard from James Coleman, PhD Candidate and Building Automation Systems Analyst at Princeton University where he researches technologies that will power the next generation of intelligent buildings. If you joined the live session, we've included links to the references mentioned in the presentation below.

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• https://nodered.org/ to learn more about the Node-RED programming environment, download and play with Node-RED, or view the library of free programs (flows.
• https://obc.lbl.gov/ contains a collection of resources that describe the effort around CDL and ASHRAE S231P. The PDF version of the proposed standard is not yet available on the ASRHAE website, but you can view the language spec here. In-depth presentation here.
• https://www.timescale.com/ is the website for the open-source time series database I use that’s based on an old and well used open-source database called Postgres.
• https://brickschema.org/ describes what Brick is an what an Ontology is. Link to the interactive explorer site. https://open223.info/ contains a set of links to materials that explain ASHRAE’s S223P effort. You can read the purpose and concepts here and you can explore the standard here.