| I am extremely pleased to be the moderator of such a well known panel of extraordinary gentlemen. I know that any one of them could completely fill our allowed time slot and my challenge will be as in the past, to control the presenters to our allotted time. It will be hard to make these extremely valuable presentations fit into a 10 minute slot, but we would like to allow time for the attendees of the XML symphosium to ask a few questions of our presenters. |
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| The Green Building XML schema (gbXML), a free and open XML schema, has been adopted by the CAD industry leaders as well as HVAC Software vendors as an ideal format for sharing building energy related information. Building design teams using these gbXML-enabled applications are eliminating weeks worth of work from their normal design processes while expanding their team's capabilities. Autodesk, Graphisoft, Trane, and GeoPraxis all support the gbXML schema today. Carrier, York International, Elite Software, Energy Soft, and ECOTECT all announced their next versions will support gbXML as well. Mr. Kennedy will discuss the history and industry issues that have been experienced with gbXML as well as demonstrate the enormous benefits gbXML-enabled application users are seeing today. |
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| ASHRAE has a worldwide reputation as the most authoritative source for information in the HVAC&R industry. Each month, ASHRAE issues ASHRAE Journal magazine, a trusted source of HVAC&R information with a reach of over 56,000 subscribers. ASHRAE.org is the most popular and comprehensive online source for HVAC&R information, and provides over 86,000 visitors a month with industry and Society news, product information, technical literature, and more.
ASHRAE is responsible for developing, publishing and revising the industry standards and
guidelines used to test, measure, design, install and/or operate virtually all HVAC&R
equipment and systems. ASHRAE has long published: "Terminology of HVAC&R".
Written to encourage the use of a consistent and precise vocabulary by Society, the HVAC&R industry and anyone that needs to refer to an authoritative source of HVAC&R technical terminology.
ASHRAE Guideline Project Committee 20 (GPC 20) will provide the HVAC&R industry with XML definitions. When published the XML definition format will be defined in the body of the guideline. Actual definitions will be freely available from the ASHRAE website.
In summary HVAC&R XML definitions will be developed according to Guideline 20 and freely available from the ASHRAE website. Publication of Guideline 20 is expected by 2007 |
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| There are many coherent XML-based Web Services initiatives in buildings, and many fine standards that accomplish different things. Building Design and Construction standards, both for US Government are based around IFCXML. Building Performance analysis relies on the closely allied GBXML. BACnet WS and LON XML are critical for building operation, particularly for the HVAC space. Leasing and tenant interactions rely on OSCRE and its standards for commercial real estate. oBIX sits at the intersection of all these and interacts with the business of business: the Enterprise. Find out how oBIX supports all these standards while making building operations a part of core business services. |
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| LonMark International, and now LonMark Americas, are taking a leadership role in the development and deployment of open, interoperable system standards. LonMark member companies have delivered more than 50 million installed devices around the world and have spent over a decade leading the buildings market into the open systems era. The merging of control systems protocols with data system protocols and XML is an inevitable and natural evolution of the buildings market. Today, LonMark International has mapped all available standard profiles and data types from more than 600 LonMark certified interoperable products into a standard XML format.
This presentation will focus on how new products and emerging technology developments can take advantage of XML and the efforts of LonMark International within the context of market trends and directions.
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