The exponential growth of cities in India due to urbanization resulted in increased use of non-renewable energy resources to meet the essential power requirements of urban built environment. It is essential for urban planners to provide innovative solutions in context of urban energy simulation based on virtual 3D city models. The recent 3D geoinformation science studies are insufficient in providing optimal solutions because of lack of emerging concepts and integrated softwares. Presently 3D GIS data can be generated into various LODs (Levels of Detail) depending upon the application requirement and input data used. There are various 3D GIS softwares like Google SketchUp, ESRI CityEngine etc., which are being used mostly for data creation especially for boundary representation for geometry abstraction without semantic information. The 3D GIS data conversion from native format into City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) enhances it by providing information both at geometric and at semantic level in interoperable format. A building information model of Geoinformatics department building in IIRS campus is created using Google SketchUp and exported to energy modelling program in gbXML schema. The present investigation explores the semantic characteristics of developed CityGML model for solar thermal and photovoltaic energy production potential assessment based on building semantic components. The amount of solar irradiation incident on bounding features and also illumination obtained through openings of building is quantized using SunCast and RadianceIES application of IESVE Software, respectively. The simulated energy data are integrated with building semantic features and stored in open-source PostGIS RDBMS to address basic semantic queries.
Different associated properties of city models like building geometries, building energy systems, building end uses, and building occupant behavior are usually saved in different data formats and are obtained from different data sources. Experience has shown that the integration of these data sets for the purpose of energy simulation on city scale is often cumbersome and error prone. A new application domain extension for CityGML has been developed in order to integrate energy-related figures of buildings, thermal volumes, and facades with their geometric descriptions. These energy-related figures can be parameters or results of energy simulations. The applicability of the new application domain extension has been demonstrated for heating energy demand calculation.
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