Despite the popularity of the subject, one surprising aspect of building automation (BA) is the
scarcity of authoritative literature references regarding the topic. This situation hampers …

The building sector accounts for about 30% of the global final energy consumption. Most of
the consumed energy originates from fossil fuels. The operation of buildings is known to …

At present, the domotization of homes and public buildings is becoming increasingly
popular. Domotization is most commonly applied to the field of energy management, since it …

Devices, methods, and systems for generating an operational user interface for a building
management system are described herein. One method includes generating a widget using …

The intelligent building, a major smart city research and development domain, has grown
beyond the scope of automation, currently focusing on the occupant centered approaches …

Three dimensional (3D) operational user interface genera tion systems and methods are
described herein. For example, one or more embodiments include calculating a number of …

Abstract OPC Unified Architecture (UA) is a platform-independent standard for message-
based communication between clients and servers on various types of network to facilitate …

Abstract Systems, methods, and computer-readable and executable instructions are
provided for implementing a BIM-aware location based application on a mobile device …

OPC UA is one of the most prominent candidates for a middleware in future CPS scenarios.
It provides many concepts which makes it very useful to address challenges in the area of …

Purpose Despite the continuous development of Building Information Modeling (BIM)
standards, not all of its dimensions are supported to the same extent. This is the case of …