Sixth Metabuilding Labs general meeting: progress and looking to the future

On 26-27 November 2024, the sixth general meeting of the Metabuilding Labs Project, organised by ÉMI Nonprofit Kft. took place at its facilities in Szentendre, Hungary. This event, of great importance to the innovation community in construction and related technologies, brought together a diverse group of participants and highlighted significant advances.

Two days of collaboration and achievement

During two intensive days of work, 12 sessions were held to present the progress achieved in the framework of the project. More than 40 consortium partners from 13 countries actively participated in this meeting, sharing key ideas and experiences.

The main objective was not only to review what has been achieved, but also to define future activities and strategic objectives that will guide the development of the project until its completion and beyond. Central to these discussions was the fundamental role of the Metabuilding platform as a vehicle for fostering open innovation and collaboration between companies and organisations.

Guided tour: an immersion in ÉMI’s test infrastructures

One of the highlights of the meeting was a guided tour of the ÉMI test infrastructures, a key component of the Metabuilding Labs project. This visit allowed attendees to gain a deeper understanding of the scope and complexity of the Open Innovation Testbed (OITB) activities, an infrastructure designed to boost innovation in the construction sector.

The Open Innovation Testbed, developed collaboratively, offers a unique environment where companies, researchers and other actors can experiment, test and validate new technologies under controlled conditions. This experience was key to demonstrating how Metabuilding Labs is building a strong network to support technological innovation in Europe.

Looking to the future

In addition to assessing the progress of the project, the meeting served as a platform for charting the way forward. Topics such as sustainability, integration of new technologies and opportunities to expand the collaborative network beyond the borders of the current consortium were addressed.

Metabuilding Labs is positioned as a pioneering project that connects innovative companies with resources, knowledge and tools to transform the construction sector and make it more efficient, sustainable and digitised.

Participation of Minsait and Onesait Platform

In the Metabuilding Labs project, Minsait uses the Onesait Platform to monitor and manage the data generated in the experiments carried out in the Living Labs. These Living Labs are collaborative spaces designed as test and experimentation environments in real conditions.

The role of the Onesait Platform is to centralise the information captured by the sensors installed in the buildings, allowing technology providers and users to analyse the data efficiently. This analysis facilitates clear conclusions about the performance and effectiveness of the tested technologies, driving data-driven decision making.

The following image shows the main functional blocks of Onesait Platform that are being used in the project to implement pilot monitoring. It is currently in the development phase.

By way of summary, the role of each module is as follows:

• Dataflow modules to define and execute data flows and Digital Twin Engine to manage each of the pilots as a digital twin in Onesait Platform are used to obtain the data. This includes having views to include in the dashboards of the digital twins and storing their data.
• Each pilot will have a web application to allow users to view and work with the data. These applications are managed with Onesait Platform’s Applications module. Each web application will include dashboards, forms and reports developed with the Dashboard Engine, OP Forms and Report Engine modules respectively. In addition, the Dataflow and Notebooks modules will be used to define the processes for generating alerts and KPIs based on the data required by each pilot.
• Finally, Onesait Platform’s transversal tools are used to manage all the elements developed as well as to facilitate the maintenance of the web applications and user accesses and roles.

Conclusion

This sixth general meeting of the project reaffirmed the consortium’s commitment to open innovation and international collaboration. This event not only made it possible to assess the progress of the project, but also to evaluate the results of the project.

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