On May 1, 2014, BTO hosted a technical meeting at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on Data and Communications Standards and Interoperability of Building Appliances, Equipment and Systems. The purpose of the meeting was to review the craft of integrating today’s automated building devices and systems to identify areas where stakeholder alignment on standards, policies, and processes can enable interoperability and thereby realize emerging value streams for the benefit of the buildings community. The scope of integration includes supporting information exchange within buildings and with external parties (other buildings, and service provider systems such as the electric grid).

Included below are materials from this meeting: the meeting book distributed to participants; summary notes from the meeting; responses to the facilitated discussion questions, as compiled by the facilitator, from the afternoon session; and all the presentations given at the meeting, following the ordering from the agenda.