A semantic requirement ontology for the engineering of building automation systems by means of OWL

Authors:
Stefan Runde;Henrik Dibowski;Alexander Fay;Klaus Kabitzsch
Affiliations:
Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute for Automation;Dresden University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Institute for Applied Computer Science;Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute for Automation;Dresden University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Institute for Applied Computer Science
Venue:
ETFA'09 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE international conference on Emerging technologies & factory automation
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The increasing complexity of modern building automation systems (BAS) results in higher initial investment costs for BAS compared to the costs for conventional building installation. This fact scares many potential customers off the application of BAS, although these systems offer significant energy cost saving potential. To reduce investment costs for BAS, automated design processes offer significant optimization potential. For such an automated design process, consistent requirements for the individual BAS are mandatory. Within this paper, the authors propose a solution for a Requirement Ontology which is based on the knowledge representation language OWL (Web Ontology Language) for the automated design process of BAS.