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Internet of Things for BuildingsThe Semantics of Architecture
Deborah L. MacPhersonKalin Associates Inc.
July 2015
http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikekavis/2014/06/26/the-internet-of-things-will-radically-change-your-big-data-strategy/
By SRI Consulting Business Intelligence/National Intelligence Council [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The Internet of Things (IoT) includes huge quantities of things from all industries and sectors
Things about Buildings include sensors, materials, performance properties, geo-locations, and more
Semantics in Architecture
Names Have a Special Role in Human-Computer Interaction
First, there are things. Anything that anyone wants to say anything about, is a thing. Buildings, people, numbers, reports, whatever: they are all things. Note, there are also of course the linguistic tokens which are used to refer to things: nodes, names, words, numerals, whatever. It is OK for these names to be things themselves, but be very careful not to confuse a thing with its name. It is usually best, if you want names to be things, to keep them very strictly segregated from the other things, the ones they refer to, in order to avoid this very common confusion. Lumping names and the named together almost always causes things to break. People are often careless about the distinction, but its important.
Pat Hayes, Ontolog Forum, IHMC
People are smart. We can understand what something is without knowing it’s name. You have to tell a computer everything.
http://merc.tv/img/fig/umlmechs.gif
For Architects, Names Include•Elements•Files•Folders•Families•Categories
Together, these form file paths limited to 260 characters for storage
Repetition implies groupings and associations between things that may or may not be important in the real world of buildings
When a Name or Grouping is Wrong, Nobody Can Find Anything
In Real Life In a Model In the Specifications
Element NamesRevit TypicalFamily ClassElements ObjectsParameters Attributes
A family is a group of elements with a common set of properties, called parameters, and a related graphical representation
http://www.revitrocks.blogspot.com
http://www.edocfile.com/images/workordernumber2.jpg
File Names
Family Names Explains why elements in a group have similar properties
BIM
11 - Construction Entities by Function12 - Construction Entities by Form13 - Spaces by Function14 - Spaces by Form
21 - Elements (UniFormat)22 - Work Results (MasterFormat)23 – Products
31 - Phases32 - Services 33 - Disciplines34 - Organizational Roles35 - Tools36 - Information
41 - Materials49 - Properties
Consensus vs. Arbitrary Names
REVIT MEP Video Tutorial – Energy Data Setup
https://st.llnl.gov/data/assets/images/research_cali1.jpg
Source > Aggregation > Normalization > Interpretation
What TheyCall It
What ItSays
What ItReallySays
What ItMeans
http://www.healthcareguy.com/
Room Data Sheets
Better Names = Better Construction Documents
Why Do We Care About Interoperability or a realistic IoT for Buildings?
http://herdingcats.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341ca4d953ef0120a7ea6466970b-800wi
Because these are all databases