Operational Decision Support for Buildings
- Title: Operational Decision Support for Buildings
- Description: Intelligent support systems for operators of buildings and spaces, typically of public use, which often require integrated management of conflicting goals, such as user comfort, cost minimization, energy efficiency and emission-reduction requirements, and risk management.
- Domain(s): Energy, Building Products, Building Control, Building Devices, Building Behavior, Building Communication, Building Data, Building Historical Data
- Objectives: Minimal operational cost, minimal environmental impact, maximal user comfort, strategic refurbishment planning
- Stakeholders: operational manager, building owner, facility manager, energy auditor, refurbishment planner
- Requirements: data integration, data analysis, performance analysis, user-specific objectives
- LD Benefits:
- structured vocabularies allow data integration;
- logical basis allows rule-based building analysis
- Challenges
- integrating data on-demand;
- alignment of data and rules for analysis
- Solution Occurs in BLC Stage: Operation,
- Uses Data Generated During BLC Stage: Planning and Design, Operation, May require installation during Retrofitting/Refurbishment/Reconfiguration
- External sources:: KnoHolEM Project
- Wiki contributors: Kris McGlinn (TCD), Pieter Pauwels (UGent)