Beyond open APIs. Ontologies & Faster time to value creation - Joel Bender, Erik Wallin and Terry Herr

What are ontologies, and what are they good for? What does semantic interoperability mean and what is the business purpose of standardization?  Is the real estate industry behind Industrial ways of working? Or actually, better positioned for the future thanks to a solid foundation in BACnet (where applicable)?  What is Brick schema, Haystack Tagging, Real Estate Core, Google Buildings Ontology, Volttron, Microsoft Data Language, taxonomies, and ontologies in general? And how can we tell them apart and/or use them together? Who are the unsung heroes of our time? Who’s making the world work behind the scenes? Who are the true pure breeds when it comes to Building Automation Bravado? And why is it important with standardization? This episode is a true island of reality in an ocean of semantic interoperability and building automation. These are some of the questions that are being answered in the episode! What’s the business purpose of standardization?  Could buildings be in better shape than industrial settings for the future?  Is energy optimization a hygiene factor these days and should be seen as an area that has been solved?  What’s the big thing for buildings during COVID?  What’s the hidden potential in BMS/and BAS, and how could companies take advantage of it?  Do we have enough of the ontologies to get started, or do we have to wait? Beyond open APIs. Ontologies & Faster time to value creation is out at Anchor and all places where Podcasts live.  And finally, a big thank you to Joel, Terry, and Erik, and to the Beyond Buildings podcast Sponsor IDUN Real Estate. Idun ProptechOS the Operating System for property owners, used and supported by Microsoft Azure and some of the World’s largest property developers. Links: Terry Herr, President at Intellimation LLC, Buildings Systems Integration and BAS Analytics specialist, and a deep interest in open interoperable systems. Joel Bender, Programmer/Analyst at Cornell University, Building Automation Rock-star and BACnet Guru. Erik Oskar Wallin, Founder and Chairman of the RealEstateCore Consortium and Chief Executive Officer at Idun Real Estate Solutions, Ontology specialist with a passion for self-learning systems and connected real estate. Nicolas Waern, Podcast Creator, Strategy & Innovation Expert at WINNIIO