TY - JOUR
T1 - An ontology to support flow system descriptions from design to operation of buildings
AU - Kukkonen, Ville
AU - Kücükavci, Ali
AU - Seidenschnur, Mikki
AU - Rasmussen, Mads Holten
AU - Smith, Kevin Michael
AU - Hviid, Christian Anker
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The interoperability of information from design to operations is an acknowledged challenge in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC). As a potential solution to the interoperability issues, there has been increasing interest in how linked data and semantic web technologies can be used to establish an extendable data model. Semantic web ontologies have been developed for the AEC domain, but an ontology for describing the energy and mass flow between systems and components is missing. This study proposes the Flow Systems Ontology (FSO) for describing the composition of flow systems, and their mass and energy flows. Two example models are expressed using FSO vocabulary. SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) queries are performed to further demonstrate and validate the ontology. The main contribution consists of developing FSO as an ontology complementary to the existing ontologies. Finally, the paper introduces a roadmap for future developments building on FSO.
AB - The interoperability of information from design to operations is an acknowledged challenge in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC). As a potential solution to the interoperability issues, there has been increasing interest in how linked data and semantic web technologies can be used to establish an extendable data model. Semantic web ontologies have been developed for the AEC domain, but an ontology for describing the energy and mass flow between systems and components is missing. This study proposes the Flow Systems Ontology (FSO) for describing the composition of flow systems, and their mass and energy flows. Two example models are expressed using FSO vocabulary. SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) queries are performed to further demonstrate and validate the ontology. The main contribution consists of developing FSO as an ontology complementary to the existing ontologies. Finally, the paper introduces a roadmap for future developments building on FSO.
KW - Building information modeling
KW - HVAC
KW - Semantic web
KW - Ontology
KW - Linked data
U2 - 10.1016/j.autcon.2021.104067
DO - 10.1016/j.autcon.2021.104067
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0926-5805
VL - 134
JO - Automation in Construction
JF - Automation in Construction
M1 - 104067
ER -