Seed Use Cases

This page presents a summary of existing known use cases based on existing linked data applications and platforms and prototypes developed in R&D projects.

Use Case Category Template

In order to keep this web page insightful and digestible, please:

1. Create a link to the use case through the title, in the following format - [ [ title_of_use_case|Title of Use Case ] ] and add use case to the new link
2. Keep description short and to the point, also for the title (Suggestion: include the category name or just extend it with a particularity of the use case)
3. Use the categories displayed at the bottom of this web page
4. Use the following template to describe use cases:

• Title: The title of the use case
• Description: A short description of the use case
• Data Domain(s): Please use the categories in 'Data Domains'.
• Objectives: A short description of the objectives of the use case
• Stakeholders:
• LD Benefits:

1. benefit 1

• Challenges

1. challenge 1

• Data is Processed During BLC Stage: Planning and Design, Construction, Commissioning, Operation, Retrofitting/Refurbishment/Reconfiguration, Demolition/Recycling
• Uses Data Generated During BLC Stage: Planning and Design, Construction, Commissioning, Operation, Retrofitting/Refurbishment/Reconfiguration, Demolition/Recycling
• Data Standards Used: e.g. IFC
• External sources:
• Use Case Description in BIM*Q Tool: A link to description in the BIM*Q tool
• Wiki contributors:

Use Cases

Use Cases are currently categorized as high level and generic. High level use cases are those which set out to meet a specific goal which may involve several sub use cases. They are not envisaged to be composed into any super use case. Often, these can be made up of several 'generic' use cases, although generic use cases should be (or are envisaged to be) applicable to more than one high level use case.

High Level Use Cases

Version and Access Control

• Title: Linking Product Data to BIM Models

Optimized Building Design for Energy Efficient Operation

• Title: Building Energy Management System for Energy Efficient Operation
• Title: Holistic approach for energy management in buildings
• Title: Collaborative design and simulation platform for designing energy-efficient buildings and their optimal energetic embedding in the neighbourhood
• Title: BEMS Planing and Design
• Title: Energy efficient design of new and retroffited buildings in healthcare districts
• Title: Operational Guidance for Life Cycle Assessment studies on the Energy Efficient Buildings
• Title: Holistic and optimized life-cycle integrated support for energy-efficient building design and construction
• Title: Linked HVAC product data for automated energy performance simulation

Optimized Building Use for Energy Efficient Operation

• Intelligent and Integrated Control Based on Building Behaviour (of devices)
  • Title: Minimize Energy Cost
  • Title: Building Energy Management System for Energy Efficient Operation
  • Title: Real time management and optimized control
  • Title: Energy Forecasting
  • Title: Virtual City operational environment to evaluate, design and optimize urban energy systems
  • Title: Monitoring and control of the existing energy consuming systems of the buildings.
  • Title: Holistic approach for energy management in buildings
  • Title: Advanced Strategies for Energy Optimization
  • Title: Suggestion Tool for Facility Manager to Re-configure Building for Optimised Energy Consumption
  • Title: An Open Platform for Managing Building Energy
  • Title: Decision Support Advisor for Innovative Business Mode and User Engagement for Energy Efficient Districts

• Intelligent and Integrated Control Based on Building Behaviour (occupancy)
  • Title: Minimize Energy Cost
  • Title: Advanced control for terminal devices of heating, ventilation, and cooling systems based on improved understanding of occupancy patterns in rooms
  • Title: Sound monitoring for determination of occupancy to improve building energy management and efficiency
  • Title: Building Energy Management System for Energy Efficient Operation
  • Title: To demonstrate advanced control capabilities for the integrated usage of heat recovery, heat re-distribution, and natural ventilation/shading by using integrated Access Control Systems
  • Title: To optimise load balancing between renewable sources and back-up systems on campus level based on the exploitation of timetables, event schedules, calendars and aggregated occupation patterns
  • Title: Real time occupancy level estimation
  • Title: Sustainable Energy Management System for Underground Stations
  • Title: An Open Platform for Managing Building Energy

• Intelligent and Integrated Control Based on Predictive Energy Simulation
  • Title: Assessment of Energy Optimization Scenarios
  • Title: Virtual City operational environment to evaluate, design and optimize urban energy systems
  • Title: Forecast energy consumption and production on district level
  • Title: Holistic approach for energy management in buildings
  • Title: Collaborative design and simulation platform for designing energy-efficient buildings and their optimal energetic embedding in the neighbourhood
  • Title: Energy and environmental benefits assessment through modeling and simulation for different typologies of buildings and different climates
  • Title: Building Energy Management System for Energy Efficient Operation
  • Title: Suggestion Tool for Facility Manager to Re-configure Building for Optimised Energy Consumption
  • Title: An Open Platform for Managing Building Energy

• Intelligent and Integrated Control Based on Energy Tariffs
  • Title: Facility energy demand curve optimization based on available price tariff (dynamic energy market participation)
  • Title: Holistic approach for energy management in buildings
  • Title: Decision support for energy trading and supply/demand regulation

• Customer Control over Energy Use/Prioritization, Trading and Supply/demand regulation
  • Title: Identifying priorities during periods of limited energy availability
  • Title: Optimization of energy use through flexible demand-response to reduce peak loads in building through shifting/postponing consumption peaks
  • Title: Strategy-driven decision on the use of produced energy
  • Title: Decision support for energy trading and supply/demand regulation
  • Title: Energy consumption priorities in case of delivery limitations
  • Title: Energy consumption and production agreement/contract
  • Title: Collaborating Smart Solar-Powered Microgrids

• Visualisation and Monitoring of Building Data (e.g. Energy Consumption) for Decision Support
  • Title: Visualization of Energy Management System (EMS) data
  • Title: Manage and optimize energy flow
  • Title: Integration of BIM and district level 3D models with real-time data from sensors and user feedback to analyze and correlate buildings utilization and provide real-time feedback about energy-related behaviors
  • Title: Monitoring and energy management of the existing energy consuming systems of the buildings
  • Title: Decision support for energy trading and supply/demand regulation
  • Title: Adapt energy consumption to dynamic prices
  • Title: Smart Energy Management System for Household energy data collection

• Management of Building Personal and Activities
  • Title: Energy and maintenance action management

• Identification of Best Practices for Energy Efficiency
  • Title: Identification of the best practices to optimize energy profile for a building

Building Re-Design and Recommissioning for Energy Efficient Operation

• Title: Decision support tool for district renovation planning
• Title: Holistic approach for energy management in buildings
• Title: BEMS Retrofit
• Title: BEMS Commissioning
• Title: Support of Self-Organizing Energy-Efficient District Projects
• Title: An Open Platform for Managing Building Energy

Business models for constructing and retrofittting energy-efficient residential districts

• Title: Support of Self-Organizing Energy-Efficient District Projects
• Title: Improve the current renovation rate by developing a new participatory integrated design methodology

Fault Detection and Management

• Title: Holistic approach for energy management in buildings
• Title: Monitoring and alert for detecting faulty building automation systems.
• Title: Facility Management for Unwanted Behavior Detection
• Title: Fault detection in building

Intelligent and Integrated Control of Buildings (non-energy related)

• Title: Operational Decision Support for Buildings
• Title: Identification of the best practices to optimize energy profile for a building
• Title: Find an incentive plan to improve the behaviour of a set of energy units
• Title: BEMS Operating
• Title: Energy and maintenance action management
• Title: Integrated Energy Management System for SmartCities

SME Use of Public Linked Building Data

• Title: Integration of Data for Enhanced Business Models

Building data publication

• Title: (Open) Building Data Portal

Smart (Context-Aware) Building Applications

• Title: Indoor Navigation

Digital Building Reconstruction

• Title: Virtual Reconstruction of Demolished Buildings
• Title: Reconstruction of Existing Historical Monuments

Building Commissioning

• Title: Requirement-checking at Building Commissioning Stage

Generic Use Cases

Cross-model change management

• Title: Cross-model Linking between Different BIM Models

Visualization

• Title: Visualization of 2D Building Geometry
• Title: Visualization of Energy Management System (EMS) data

Other

• Title: Integrating Tabular Data Outputs from Simulators with other Data Sources using Linked-data and JSON
• Title: Optimize Building Use Comfort
• Title: Implement Thermal Energy Management
• Title: Preparation to Participate in District Level Energy Management

Data Domains

Suggested list of categories to be used as tags for related domains. Please feel free to add or edit this categories if you find they are incomplete.

• Building Product (includes Geometry, excludes devices) (e.g. 2D, 3D, Zones/Spaces, materials, cost, durability, etc.)
• Building Devices (e.g. HVAC, sensors, actuators, etc.)
• Building Control (e.g. Scheduled Automation, Intelligent automation [fuzzy reasoning, agent based, etc.] )
• Building Behavior (e.g. inferred data like building state, user activities, etc.)
• Building Communication (e.g. communication protocols and interfaces, message structures, etc.)
• Building Data (e.g. measured data, set points, data structure, data storage etc.)
• Energy (e.g. predictive energy models, energy tariffs, etc.)
• Geolocation and Weather (e.g. location of building, relationship to district, predictive weather models, local weather data)
• Historical Building Data (e.g. historical data, heritage data, original plans, etc.)
• Norms and Regulation (Important terms and concepts related to norms and regulations.)
• Best Practices Methods and Technologies (Different technologies that could meet both district and building level requirements in terms of performance, energy efficiency, and sustainability)
• Actors(the actors who are involved in the activities related to all building life cycle stages)

Building Life Cycle Stage

The Building Life Cycle is defined here as having six stages. Find a further description of each stage by clicking on it. For a description of how these stages are categorized, click HERE

• Planning and Design
• Construction
• Commissioning
• Operation
• Retrofitting/Refurbishment/Reconfiguration
• Demolition/Recycling

Stakeholders

List of stakeholders to be used as tags for related domains. This are categorized as human, organisation and non-human stakeholders. Also provided is an indication of the stage of the building life cycle that the stakeholder is involved. Building Life Cycle Stages Key - Design: Des, Construction: Con, Commissioning: Com, Operation: Op, Refurbishment/Reconfiguration: R, Demolition/Recycling: Dem, (All indicates all stages)

Human Stakeholders

• Building/Facility Owner
• Architect
• Operations Manager
• Energy Manager/Auditor
• Energy Modeler
• Facility Manager (need to make a clear distinction between this and operation manager)
• Facility Technician
• Engineer
  • Structural
  • Automation
  • Building Energy Management System
  • HVAC
• Financial/Cost Manager
• System Administrator
• Occupant
• Developer (e.g. software developer)

Organization Stakeholders

• Energy Supplier
• Device Manufacturer/Distributor
• Materials Manufacturer/Distributor

Non-human 'Stakeholders'

• Data Provider
• Application
  • Metering system
  • Automation Server/Control System
• Device
  • Data Storage System (energy data, sensor data, etc.)
  • Communication Interface
  • Energy Consumer
  • Energy Generator

Scenarios

Two proposals for scenarios related to optimization of the performance

• monitoring of building energy performance -> publish -> calculate performance or simulation -> compare performance -> optimization of the performance
• building (street lighting, water, gas, etc.) model -> simulation -> performance estimation -> optimization of the performance

Relevant Documents

• some of the DURAARK deliverables could be of relevance, eg

 * http://duraark.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/DURAARK_D2.2.1.pdf,
 * http://duraark.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/duraark_d7.7.1.pdf
 * http://duraark.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/DURAARK_D7_2.pdf
 * http://duraark.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/DURAARK_D7.3.pdf