IBRDML - a unified XML-based description of resources and activities in intelligent buildings

摘要

The present work proposes a standardized and flexible model of the semantics required to enunciate the structures and activities in intelligent buildings using a descriptive language formalized in a DTD of XML. The use of XML documents to model buildings allow to explicitly show the hierarchy of the existing building containers, to ensure the portability of the model between various systems and to achieve a natural mapping of the building components as regards the software in charge of managing them. This new representation model eliminates the presence of database driven management systems, thus giving rise to more simple and compact developments, as well as solving numerous configuration and development problems. Moreover, the availability of tools for transforming XML documents based on XSL enhance the model's portability between various systems through simply applying an XSLT template.