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Portable Queries Using the Brick Schema for Building Applications: Demo Abstract

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Sensorized commercial buildings are a rich target for building a new class of applications that improve operational and energy efficiency of building operations that take into account human activities. Such applications, however, rarely experience widespread adoption due to the lack of a common descriptive schema that would enable porting these applications and systems to different buildings. Our demo presents Brick [4], a uniform schema for representing metadata in buildings. Our schema defines a concrete ontology for sensors, subsystems and relationships among them, which enables portable applications. Using a web application, we will demonstrate real buildings that have been mapped to the Brick schema, and show application queries that extracts relevant metadata from these buildings. The attendees would be able to create example buildings and write their own queries.

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U. E. I. Administration. User's guide to the 2012 cbecs public use microdata file. Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS), page 33, May 2016.
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  • (2024)A portable application framework for energy management and information systems (EMIS) solutions using Brick semantic schemaEnergy and Buildings10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.114802(114802)Online publication date: Sep-2024
  • (2021)Query relaxation for portable brick-based applicationsProceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation10.1145/3486611.3486671(150-159)Online publication date: 17-Nov-2021

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BuildSys '16: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments
November 2016
273 pages
ISBN:9781450342643
DOI:10.1145/2993422
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  • (2024)A portable application framework for energy management and information systems (EMIS) solutions using Brick semantic schemaEnergy and Buildings10.1016/j.enbuild.2024.114802(114802)Online publication date: Sep-2024
  • (2021)Query relaxation for portable brick-based applicationsProceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation10.1145/3486611.3486671(150-159)Online publication date: 17-Nov-2021

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