Haystack Based Source-Available Controls

Creation of Project Sandstar Consortium

The goal of Anka Labs is to create a build space industry that is built on collaboration. This has been achieved in other industries like within personal computers.

For example PCI-Sig consortium has over 880 companies.

Their statement declares

PCI-SIG specifications define standards driving the industry-wide compatibility of peripheral component interconnects. Members regularly review them, providing commentary and change requests when necessary. These requests are considered by technical workgroups and applied as appropriate, resulting in collaboratively devised specifications benefiting millions of platforms and add-in devices.

Our Statement with Project Sandstar Consortium that will include Anka Stack is as follow.

Project Sandstar Consortium defines standards improving distributed computing for internet of things with technologies open and closed source. Members will have a voting system utilizing block-chain technology. Based on the votes open hardware and software technologies will reduce hardware and software costs for build space thus allowing distributed computing to enter into smart spaces.

Major Goals of Project Sandstar Consortium is as follows

• Hardware Agnostic Controls (Project Sandstar) (Open Sourced)
• SHAYSTACK CLIENT (Sedona Haystack Client) Sedona Haystack clients allows systems integrators to read, write to point or evaulate a database or cluster of databases with extended queries. (Will be source-available with community purchasing requirements for commercial. Non-commercial source-available for the world)
• Safety first with provisioning with Salt-stack and firewall definitions (https://saltproject.io/) (Open Sourced by Dell Inc.)
• Simplifying distributed computing (Ankalabs.com as OEM of SkyFoundry.com, point based sales to community with profit distribution utilizing blockchain)
• Standardizing APIs for better control equipment (Standardizing rest api functions for tag based control within SkySpark)
• Bringing machine learning and support vector machine methods into controls as a part of future improvements (Standardizing methodologies and APIs to be utilized for predicting and optimizing control) (Will be source-available with community purchasing requirements for commercial. Non-commercial source-available for the world)
• Mobile focus approach with Mobilytik and SkyNotify flutter apps.(Will be source-available with community purchasing requirements for commercial. Non-commercial source-available for the world)
• Dashbording with Visualytik haystack block based programming that arcbeam cluster aware within SkySpark platform. (Will be source-available with community purchasing requirements for commercial. Non-commercial source-available for the world)

Basis of our solution is logic from different vendors to be portable between each other.

Project Sandstar

We have achieved this merging two open technologies, Project Haystack and Sedona Framework.

Standardized Sedona kit called eacio (Edge Analytics Controller Input Output) enables the control logic to be separated from hardware. This kit is standardized and frozen to changes at this time until consoritum agrees for a change. This changes paradigm of smart building controls as it is open source. Sedona framework produces an XML file and non of the definitions won't utilize hardware dependent definitions. This shall easily allow a manufacturer generate new devices or change the CPU without worrying about large software undertaking.

Build space will benefit from moving program between different manufacturer without worrying about compatibility and communication.

Technologies utilized within this part of the stack is as follows

• Sedona Framework (Sedona Lang and Virtual Machine (SVM))
• Poco Web Service (C++)
• Dart web within Record Editor for SkySpark

SHaystack Client (Sedona Haystack Client)

Sedona Haystack client is a Sedona kit that is standardized and frozen to changes until consortium agrees for change.

With Shaystack client we can have eval functions run also we can read points with based on haystack filters or directly with record id calls. We can also have a Sedona component that can write to Haystack point. Within our modBus gateway, we can write modbus point that is imported into skyspark or to any writeable point.

This is the first introduction article. Sandstar Consortium has not been found yet. We are working on methods to create the funding for the consortium. We are explaining what has been written for the stack and the goals for future implementations and goals.

Join us with your thoughts so far within this article. We would love to hear your feedback.

Stay tuned for the next articles. We can bring distributed TRULY open controls that built space TRULY deserves.