Development of intelligence analytic models for Integrated Building Management Systems (IBMS) in intelligent buildings

摘要

With the availability of innumerable ‘intelligent’ building products and the dearth of inclusive evaluationudtools, design teams are confronted with the quandary of choosing the apposite building control systemsudto suit the needs of a particular intelligent building project. The paucity of measures that represent theuddegree of system intelligence and indicate the desirable goal in intelligent building control systemsuddesign inhibits the consumers from comparing numerous products from the viewpoint of intelligence.udThis article is designed to develop a model for facilitating the system intelligence analysis for theudintegrated building management system (IBMS) in the intelligent building. To achieve these objectives,udsystematic research activities are conducted to first develop, test and refine the general conceptualudmodel using consecutive surveys; then, to convert the developed conceptual framework to the practicaludmodel; and, finally, to evaluate the effectiveness of the practical model by means of expert validation.udThe findings of this study suggest that IBMS has a distinctive set of intelligence attributes andudindicators. The research findings also indicate that operational benefits of the intelligent building exertuda considerable degree of influence on the relative importance of intelligence indicators of the IBMS inudthe model. This research suggests a benchmark to measure the degree of intelligence of one controludsystem candidate against another.