Metadata schemas and ontologies for building energy applications: A critical review and use case analysis

M Pritoni, D Paine, G Fierro, C Mosiman, M Poplawski… - Energies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Digital and intelligent buildings are critical to realizing efficient building energy operations
and a smart grid. With the increasing digitalization of processes throughout the life cycle of …

An overview of data tools for representing and managing building information and performance data

N Luo, M Pritoni, T Hong - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Building information modeling (BIM) has been widely adopted for representing and
exchanging building data across disciplines during building design and construction …

[HTML][HTML] A semantic ontology for representing and quantifying energy flexibility of buildings

H Li, T Hong - Advances in Applied Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Energy flexibility of buildings can be an essential resource for a sustainable and reliable
power grid with the growing variable renewable energy shares and the trend to electrify and …

Semantic model-based large-scale deployment of AI-driven building management applications

K Xu, Z Chen, F **ao, J Zhang, H Zhang, T Ma - Automation in Construction, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Digitalization and Artificial Intelligent (AI) are revolutionizing building operation
management. The abundance of data generated with the digitalization of buildings in the …

[PDF][PDF] Design of an effective ontology and query processor enabling portable building applications

G Fierro - … Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of …, 2019 - gtf.fyi
The US Department of Energy reports that commercial buildings constituted 47% of all
energy consumed in the US in 2017 [107]. On average, 30% of this energy is wasted [34] …

[HTML][HTML] Transformational IoT sensing for air pollution and thermal exposures

J Pantelic, N Nazarian, C Miller, F Meggers… - Frontiers in Built …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Today's cities encounter significant challenges concerning urbanization and population
growth, resource availability, and climate change. Concurrently, unparalleled datasets are …

Shepherding metadata through the building lifecycle

G Fierro, AK Prakash, C Mosiman, M Pritoni… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Many different digital representations of a building are produced over the course of its
lifecycle. These representations contain the metadata required to support different stages of …

[HTML][HTML] Semantic digital twin creation of building systems through time series based metadata inference–A review

R Benfer, J Müller - Energy and Buildings, 2024 - Elsevier
Numerous applications are being developed to enhance the energy efficiency of building
systems, including fault detection and diagnosis, performance assessment, and intelligent …

Semantic interoperability to enable smart, grid-interactive efficient buildings

H Bergmann, C Mosiman, A Saha, S Haile… - 2020 - escholarship.org
Achieving a widespread transition to grid-interactive, efficient buildings (GEBs) depends
critically on there being sufficient interoperability among connected building systems. While …

OpenBuildingControl: Digitizing the control delivery from building energy modeling to specification, implementation and formal verification

M Wetter, P Ehrlich, A Gautier, M Grahovac, P Haves… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The current process for specifying, installing and commissioning building control sequences
is largely manual and based on ambiguous natural language specifications. It lacks a formal …