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Title: Interactive Metadata Integration with Brick

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Many different digital representations of a building are produced over the course of its lifecycle. While these representations individually contain metadata required to support different stages of the building's lifecycle, they are largely not interoperable due to differences in structure, syntax and semantics. This impedes the development and deployment of data-driven applications providing fault detection and diagnosis, virtual metering or optimal control. [4] introduces a new platform for the continuous curation of a unified, Brick [1]-based metadata model that can be maintained throughout the building lifecycle. In this demonstration, we present a live proof-of-concept implementation of the platform with support for several metadata representations in the context of a simulated building lifecycle.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
DOE Contract Number:
DE-AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1755717
Report Number(s):
NREL/CP-5500-78692; MainId:32609; UUID:af97d01b-3db3-40ce-be22-542e1d5baae4; MainAdminID:19037
Resource Relation:
Conference: Presented at BuildSys '20: 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 19-20 November 2020
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (5)

Brick: Towards a Unified Metadata Schema For Buildings
  • Balaji, Bharathan; Agarwal, Yuvraj; Berges, Mario
  • Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments - BuildSys '16 https://doi.org/10.1145/2993422.2993577
conference January 2016
Short Paper: Analyzing Metadata Schemas for Buildings: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
  • Bhattacharya, Arka; Ploennigs, Joern; Culler, David
  • Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments - BuildSys '15 https://doi.org/10.1145/2821650.2821669
conference January 2015
Automated Metadata Construction to Support Portable Building Applications
  • Bhattacharya, Arka A.; Hong, Dezhi; Culler, David
  • Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments - BuildSys '15 https://doi.org/10.1145/2821650.2821667
conference January 2015
Plaster: an integration, benchmark, and development framework for metadata normalization methods
  • Koh, Jason; Hong, Dezhi; Gupta, Rajesh
  • BuildSys '18: The 5th ACM International Conference on Systems for Built Environments, Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Systems for Built Environments https://doi.org/10.1145/3276774.3276794
conference November 2018
Evaluation of the opportunities and limitations of using IFC models as source of building metadata
  • Lange, Henrik; Johansen, Aslak; Kjærgaard, Mikkel Baun
  • BuildSys '18: The 5th ACM International Conference on Systems for Built Environments, Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Systems for Built Environments https://doi.org/10.1145/3276774.3276790
conference November 2018