Post on 23-Jan-2015
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Dr. Malcolm Murray
Product Manager - GreenspaceLive
SEMANTIC ENERGY
THE PROBLEM - BUILDINGS
• Buildings account for ~70% of electricity consumption (US)
• Reducing and managing this will make a huge impact
• Very Complex picture
• Needs to be characterized
THE PROBLEM – ENERGY NETWORKSFROM THIS:
THE PROBLEM – ENERGY NETWORKSTO THIS:
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IS KEY
• Characterizing building information
• Managing energy networks
• Load balancing
• This happens, but is not connected
• The Web Can connect!
BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING
• Goes WAY beyond CAD
• Represent building INFORMATION as well as drawings
• Allows us to do much more analysis and management!
• Gaining serious traction in construction
BUILDING INFORMATION MODELING• Complex, but can manage the entire building workflow
BIM INTEROPERABILITY IMPORTANT• Different Domain Experts can carry out their own work
• Links with others
• This is now beginning to happen
• Based on Web technologies (XML) – Still tend to be single model focused.
• Growing support.
GREENSPACE’S SOLUTIONS FOR BIM
CO2ekWh£
http://projectrapier.com
Capital & Lifecycle Cost ModelBased on Sweet Group cost analyses
of recent project data
Embodied Carbon ModelBased on Architype in-house embodied carbon
calculator
Energy & Services ModelBased on BDSP Suntool rapid thermal
engine
http://projectrapier.com
http://projectrapier.com
Autodesk Revit Energy Modellers
SketchUp
RAPIERgbXML
SketchUp
gTools
gModeller – Building Information for Google SketchUp
gWorkspace – Store and Share on the Cloud
gEnergy EPC – Cloud Based Energy Performance Analysis
http://projectrapier.com
ENERGY SUPPLY
CIM (IEC 61970)
• Data standard for Energy Networks
• Can represent energy generation, conversion technologies, networks, distribution technologies, financial details and more.
• Can be represented in XML form.
• Currently used by various Utility companies world wide.
• Extensible
• Focused on modeling future energy grids
• 16 partners across Europe
• Completed last September
• UHI / Greenspace were involved in regional modelling and information representation
SUSPLAN DATA INPUT
SUSPLAN KNOWLEDGE BASEhttp://susplan.eu
SUSPLAN KNOWLEDGE BASEhttp://susplan.eu
SUSPLAN KNOWLEDGE BASEhttp://susplan.eu
NEXT STEPConnecting These Areas
THE SEMANTIC WEB
• Basically an evolution of the World Wide Web.
• Concept introduced by Tim Berners Lee in 1999.
• Extends the scope of the World Wide Web to manage data.
• Connects data across many sources.
SEMANTIC WEB LAYERS
Existing WWW Technology
Mature Sem Web Technology
In Development / Research
LINKED OPEN DATA
SEMANTIC ENERGY
• Semantic Web based platform representing building and energy related information.
• Currently a proof of concept developed by Greenspace.
• gbXML based ontology along with others.
• New way of organising energy information
• Extremely Scalable
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WHERE TO NEXT?
• Need more funding – research proposals
• Market exposure
• Link with other similar work (e.g., UrbanOS etc)
THANKS FOR LISTENING
ANY QUESTIONS?
malcolm@greenspacelive.comhttp://greenspacelive.com
http://projectrapier.comhttp://susplan.eu