Discovering the Unseen World

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Discovering the Unseen World

• Toby ConsidineCo-Chair oBIX Technical Committee
• Systems Specialistblog www.NewDaedalus.com

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The engineered world is invisible and
uncontrollable
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Established business practices limit information
sharing.
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Lack of interoperability of information wastes
energy
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We can no longer afford to make decisions about
capital facilities that are not fact based
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Information standards will give us visibility and
interoperability
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Traditional practices do not share information
across design, construction, and operation
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Every stage of building acquisition is in its own
silo

• Current manufacturing is 66 value added, 26
  waste and 12 support.
• Current construction is 10 value added, 57
  waste and 33 support.
• NIST identified 16 Billion annually in value lost
  due to non-interoperability of information

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Design intents are lost before design
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Energy models are extrinsic to design processes
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Conflicts are not addressed prior to construction.
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Performance and green principles cannot just be
bolted on
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Use intrinsic energy models to commission the
design
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Commission buildings to the standard of the
energy model
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Continuously commission buildings to perform as
designed
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An integrated information model enables new
results
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Single model reduces cost while speeding
construction
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Transfer operating information from design to
operations
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Create feedback from actual operations to future
designs.
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Higher performing buildings require interoperable
interfaces
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Control Protocols are for domain experts only
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Control systems are too complex to integrate into
operations
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Monolithic protocols make system interactions too
complex.
HTML
IMAP / POP3
SMTP
TELNET
URIs
ASCII / Unicode
TCP
IP
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Without nuanced security, systems cannot interact
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Interoperable standards create opportunity for
service definition
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Can my system defend its mission?
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Interoperability allows site-based system
selection
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What could you do if your building was part of
your SOA?
QoS, Security, Management Monitoring
(Infrastructure Service)
Data Architecture Business Intelligence
Integration Architecture (Enterprise Service Bus)
Presentation Layer
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Business Process
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Process Choreography
Services
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Atomic and Composite Services
Components
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Enterprise Components
Existing Application Resources and Assets
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Package
Custom Application
Industry Models
Custom Application
Package
Composite service
Atomic service
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Without situation awareness, services must limit
interaction
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System integrators must define systems roles
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Federated Identity Management ties my identity to
my role
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Abstraction and security enable interaction
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Smart buildings need partners to solve the
biggest energy issues.
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Buildings that are not responsive are not
efficient
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40 of energy in North America is used by
building operations.
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Buildings do not interact with their tenants
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Responsive buildings can save 25-50 of their
energy use
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The power grid operates under 1930s business
models.
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30 days of use is summed and you can read it two
weeks later
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If you cant control load, make sure there is
always too much
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Two-way communication will enable the building to
respond
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Live markets in energy can improve performance
dramatically
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Open meter standards enable exchange of live use
data
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Building agents can respond to prices to solve
grid congestion
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Only coordination that is simple and secure will
scale
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Poor data sharing in capital assets are at the
heart of some very large societal problems.
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We need new business practices based upon
information sharing.
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We can apply best practices from IT to
acquisition and operation of capital assets.
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Building information stewardship and open
agent-based interfaces bring the hidden world of
embedded systems into open and effective use.
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Questions?

• Toby.Considine_at_unc.edu
• blog www.NewDaedalus.com

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National Building Information Model Standard
(NBIMS)

• www.facilityinformationcouncil.org/bim
• www.buildingsmartalliance.org
• www.opengeospatial.org

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Open Building Information Exchange (oBIX)

• http//www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?w
  g_abbrevobix
• http//sourceforge.net/projects/obix/
• https//sourceforge.net/projects/obix-server/
• http//groups.google.com/group/obix-developers

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GridWise Architectural Council

• http//www.gridwiseac.org/
• http//www.gridwiseac.org/pdfs/interopframework_v1
  .pdf
• http//www.grid-interop.com/2007/agenda/default.as
  p

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General

• www.AutomatedBuildings.com
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_response
• http//www.thegreengrid.org/home