Situation-aware Building Information Models for Next Generation Building Management Systems

摘要

Technical advances in Information and Communication Technology have enabled the collection and storage of large amounts of data, rising hopes of improving asset decision-making and related building management support systems. It appears however that the gap between the required decision-making knowledge and the actual useful information provided by current technologies appears to increase, rather than contract. Thus, often the multitude of patterns afforded by current data analytics techniques does not deliver a set of scenarios prone to effective decision making. This paper advocates a decision analytics solution featuring the use of Situated Logic to create 'narratives' providing adequate meaning to data analytics results, and the use of Channel Theory so as to support adequate situational awareness. This approach is also analysed in the context of a Building Management System-of-Systems paradigm, highly relevant to the emerging complex Clusters of Intelligent Buildings within Smart Cities, featuring collaborative decision-making centres and their associated decision support systems.