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BRICKS: Building’s reasoning for intelligent control knowledge-based system

2019; Elsevier BV; Volume: 52; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.scs.2019.101832

2210-6715

Gabriel Santos, Zita Vale, Pedro Faria, Luís Gomes,

Data Stream Mining Techniques

Building energy management systems have been largely implemented, focusing on specific domains. When installed together, they lack interoperability to make them work correctly and to achieve a centralized user interface. The Building's Reasoning for Intelligent Control Knowledge-based System (BRICKS) overcomes these issues by developing an interoperable building management system able to aggregate different interest domains. It is a context-aware semantic rule-based system for intelligent management of buildings' energy and security. Its output can be a set of alarms, notifications, or control actions to take. BRICKS itself, and its features are the innovative contribution of the present paper. It is very important for buildings' energy management, namely in the scope of demand response programs. In this paper, it is shown how semantics is used to enable the knowledge exchange between different devices, algorithms, and models, without the need for reprogramming the system. A scenario is deployed in a real building for demonstration.