“The effective harmonization of building data from different systems has long posed a challenge. Recently there has been a big push in the smart buildings market to develop improved frameworks, models and ontologies for smart building data management,” reads our latest research study on the IoT in buildings. “New semantic data models that provide a common means of structuring and tagging data to represent it in a specific logical way across systems are being developed to support data governance, regulatory compliance, and data management demands in building data environments.” Project Haystack is an open-source initiative to streamline working with data from the Internet of Things. Established in 2011 by Intel, Legrand, Lynxspring, Siemens, CABA, and others, the open-source initiative provides a standardized and contextually-rich approach to representing and using metadata across a wide range of applications. Haystack is already in widespread use, and as of April 2021, the organization estimates that the standard is active in over 40,000 sites worldwide. Brick Schema uniform […]