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 …

An ontology-based methodology to establish city information model of digital twin city by merging BIM, GIS and IoT

J Shi, Z Pan, L Jiang, X Zhai - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2023 - Elsevier
With the development of digital city and smart city construction, the City Information Model
(CIM) has played a critical role as a container of spatial–temporal data to establish the …

Brick: Metadata schema for portable smart building applications

B Balaji, A Bhattacharya, G Fierro, J Gao, J Gluck… - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Buildings account for 32% of worldwide energy usage. A new regime of exciting new
“applications” that span a distributed fabric of sensors, actuators and humans has emerged …

Brick: Towards a unified metadata schema for buildings

B Balaji, A Bhattacharya, G Fierro, J Gao… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Commercial buildings have long since been a primary target for applications from a number
of areas: from cyber-physical systems to building energy use to improved human …

CIoT-Net: a scalable cognitive IoT based smart city network architecture

J Park, MM Salim, JH Jo, JCS Sicato, S Rathore… - … -centric Computing and …, 2019 - Springer
In the recent era, artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to support numerous solutions for
human beings, such as healthcare, autonomous transportation, and so on. Cognitive …

Ontologies and Semantic Web for the Internet of Things-a survey

I Szilagyi, P Wira - IECON 2016-42nd Annual Conference of the …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The reality of Internet of Things (IoT), with its growing number of devices and their diversity is
challenging current approaches and technologies for a smarter integration of their data …

[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] …

Materializing the promises of cognitive IoT: How cognitive buildings are shaping the way

J Ploennigs, A Ba, M Barry - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Relatively tiny examples have demonstrated the potential of cognitive IoT (CIoT) in its full-
stack, namely, semantic modeling, learning and reasoning over sensors data, and machine …

Building management insights driven by a multi-system semantic representation approach

C El Kaed, B Leida, T Gray - 2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet-of-Things paradigm has brought exciting opportunities to increase productivity
and efficiency but also customer experiences. Thus, IoT promoted both the interconnectivity …