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Join us for a Project Haystack webinar, June 10, 2026 at 11:00am ET

The Haystack Labs working group has been on a roll. Over the past couple of months, a series of commits to the Xeto GitHub repository have landed meaningful advances across multiple domains — from valve and damper modeling to AC power normalisation to a brand-new proposal for modeling motors and VFDs. Here's a quick roundup.

Project Haystack’s webinar, “Haystack 5 and Xeto for Python Developers,” led by Rick Jennings (SkyFoundry) and Scott Muench (J2 Innovations), delivered a fast, focused walkthrough of Haystack 5’s major new capabilities—especially how to use them hands-on in Python.

This webinar from July 23, 2025 emphasized the critical role of metadata validation in achieving true interoperability in smart buildings. Xeto, a new open-source tool and specification repository, was introduced as the foundation for Haystack 5’s next-generation capabilities.

The place for the Project Haystack community to network, share, create synergy, and generate business opportunities.

Haystack Connect 2025—organized and produced by the Project Haystack Organization—provides a unique, open-forum for professionals involved in automation, control and the Internet of Things to learn and share the latest technologies and techniques for connecting systems and utilizing device data in applications including intelligent buildings, energy management, remote monitoring, and other IoT devices and applications.

The two-and-a-half-day long conference includes keynote presentations, a vendor exhibition hall, and a packed schedule of technical sessions covering data acquisition, communications, protocol translation, data visualization, analytics, data semantics, modeling and security—all critical technologies essential to using operational data to drive improved performance.

CxEnergy 2024
April 29 - May 2, 2024 
San Diego, California

Project Haystack is proud to be among the Supporting Organizations for this year's CxEnergy 2024 Commissioning, Energy Management & Building Technology Conference & Expo April 29-May 2 in San Diego, CA.

As per our agreement with CxEnergy, all Project Haystack Member receive a 10% discount on the registration fee with promo code SUPPORTING10. We encourage you to share this promo code with other members on social media, on calendar events, and in newsletters.

Project Haystack also receives ONE complimentary registration to CxEnergy with promo code SUPPORTING. So, this is first come, first serve!!! Note that additional registration is required for pre-conference CxA Workshop, EMP Seminar, TAB & Cx Seminar, or Golf Tournament.

More details available by clicking here.