July 23, 2025 • 11:00am-12:00pm (EST)
The webinar will emphasize the critical role of metadata validation in achieving true interoperability in smart buildings. We will introduce Xeto, a new open-source tool and specification repository, as the foundation for Haystack 5’s next-generation capabilities.
Register today at https://bit.ly/3Ug7oZC
You will learn:
- Applying tags isn’t enough—validation ensures metadata is complete, accurate, and aligned with application needs.
- This enables reuse of metadata, reduces onboarding costs, and supports cross-application compatibility.
- Provides all stakeholders confidence. Confidence that work is done to specs. Confidence that apps will work as intended. Confidence that AI models will yield valid results.
Xeto is a command-line and web-based tool that:
- Defines metadata specs
- Validates metadata against those specs.
- Supports translation between ontologies (e.g., Haystack → Brick).
- It’s central to Haystack 5’s early-stage commercialization and open ecosystem.
Project Haystack received U.S. Department of Energy BENEFIT funding to:
- Lower energy costs.
- Improve building digitization.
- Support workforce development.
- The project spanned three years, focusing on tool development, validation, and field deployment.
Haystack’s success is driven by contributions from:
- OEMs, integrators, consultants, and application developers.
- The Xeto.dev repository allows all stakeholders to contribute, validate, and consume metadata specs.
- Building Owners: Lower costs, better data quality, futureproofing.
- System Integrators: Faster deployment, reusable specs, less manual work.
- Manufacturers: Interoperability, reduced support costs.
- Application Providers/Data Scientists: Structured data, better AI models, faster time to value.
Register today at https://bit.ly/3Ug7oZC
You will receive the webinar link via email by Tuesday, July 22. The webinar will be hosted on Zoom.
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