An Intelligent System for Improving Energy Efficiency in Building Using Ontology and Building Automation Systems

Modeling Smart Grid neighborhoods with the ENERsip ontology

“…In particular, the works reported in [18] and [19] stand out as the most similar to the ontology presented in this paper.…”

“…Therefore, the ontologies presented in [18] and [19] are mainly focused on buildings and [18] does not consider micro-generation; whereas the ontology presented hereby goes beyond, since it considers consumption, generation and storage at the level of individual dwellings, residential and commercial buildings, and neighborhoods.…”

“…[18] combines a Building Automation System with an OWL ontology to improve energy efficiency in buildings. However, micro-generation facilities are not considered.…”

“…Notably, ontologies and the ontology language OWL (Web Ontology Language) [16] are highlighted as an increasingly popular way of providing machine-readable data models with formal semantics based on shared knowledge. As a matter of fact, OWLbased ontologies are winning momentum within both the Smart Grid area [17][18][19], in particular, and the M2M area [20], in general.…”

Knoholem: Knowledge-Based Energy Management for Public Buildings Through Holistic Information Modeling and 3D Visualization

“…Furthermore, in the way of enhance the IFC, new relationships are defined using functional diagrams and user activity modeling. ABox contains building specific instances that are created semi-automatically from CAD files using a drawing interpretation tool [4].…”