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Portable Queries Using the Brick Schema for Building Applications

2016

Sensorized commercial buildings are a rich target for building a new class of applications that improve operational and energy efficiency of building operations that take into account human activities. Such applications, however, rarely experience widespread …

Design and analysis of a query processor for brick

2017

Brick is a recently proposed metadata schema and ontology for describing building components and the relationships between them. It represents buildings as directed labeled graphs using the RDF data model. Using the SPARQL query language, …

Semantic Interoperability to Enable Smart, Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings

2020 · eScholarship (California Digital Library)

Achieving a widespread transition to grid-interactive, efficient buildings (GEBs) depends critically on there being sufficient interoperability among connected building systems. While many critical elements already exist at the technical interoperability level (TCP/IP, BACnet, etc.), a …