Semantic interoperability is one of those phrases that sounds more technical than it is, but if you strip away the jargon, it simply means this: systems that can communicate and actually understand each other. It’s the difference between having a room full of people shouting in different languages, and having a conversation where everyone speaks and listens fluently.

In buildings, semantic interoperability means that devices, systems, and software can share data that’s structured in a consistent way. Not just the numbers, but the meaning behind those numbers: what they represent, where they came from, how they relate to other systems, and how they should be used.

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Ocean Discovery Institute (ODI) is a nonprofit organization in San Diego’s City Heights neighborhood that uses science to transform lives. Their LEED Platinum-certified Living Lab provides thousands of young people—many of them historically excluded from science—with the tools, mentorship, and hands-on experience needed to become tomorrow’s science and sustainability leaders.

Stok, a long-time leader in sustainable real estate services, partnered with ACE IoT to deploy an Independent Data Layer (IDL) at the Living Lab—ensuring the ODI team has access to building performance data that supports both daily operations and long-term impact.

Read on for a closer look inside the Living Lab—and how data is helping bring its mission to life.

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In this brief video demonstration, ACE IoT and Doug Plumley, Software Architect at Dartmouth College, explore Dartmouth’s BACnet networks using Grasshopper, a powerful tool for understanding the operational technology (OT) landscape in buildings—and the open-source foundation of ACE Sentinel.

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