Publication details
Towards Flexible Intelligent Building Data Analysis
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | 11th Summer School of Applied Informatics Proceedings |
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| Keywords | Facility management;Intelligent buildings;Smart buildings;Building automation;Building management systems;Systems integration;Ontology;Semantics |
| Description | Costs related to the operation of facilities (buildings and devices) represent a significant part of expenses of an organization. To analyse the effectiveness and performance of facilities, advanced software systems are available on the market. Such systems focus mostly on the analysis of financial data, human resources information, or static data concerning the buildings (e.g. room area). However, a large amount of precise, detailed and up-to-date information can also be gathered from building management systems (BMS) that integrate various building automation and electronic systems. The building operation data is currently unavailable for advanced analytical tools. This situation is largely attributable to two factors: inaccessibility of BMS data and missing semantic information. The paper proposes a middleware layer that facilitates a data retrieval and an analysis by providing data access and semantic interfaces and models for querying the building systems. |