Upgrading BRICKS—The Context-Aware Semantic Rule-Based System for Intelligent Building Energy and Security Management

Gabriel Santos, Tiago Pinto, Zita Vale, Rui Carvalho, Brígida Teixeira and Carlos Ramos
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Gabriel Santos: GECAD Research Group, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal
Tiago Pinto: GECAD Research Group, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal
Zita Vale: Institute of Engineering-Polytechnic of Porto, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal
Rui Carvalho: GECAD Research Group, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal
Brígida Teixeira: GECAD Research Group, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal
Carlos Ramos: GECAD Research Group, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 15, 1-14

Abstract: Building management systems (BMSs) are being implemented broadly by industries in recent decades. However, BMSs focus on specific domains, and when installed on the same building, they lack interoperability to work on a centralized user interface. On the other hand, BMSs interoperability allows the implementation of complex rules based on multi-domain contexts. The Building’s Reasoning for Intelligent Control Knowledge-based System (BRICKS) is a context-aware semantic rule-based system for the intelligent management of buildings’ energy and security. It uses ontologies and semantic web technologies to interact with different domains, taking advantage of cross-domain knowledge to apply context-based rules. This work upgrades the previously presented version of BRICKS by including services for energy consumption and generation forecast, demand response, a configuration user interface (UI), and a dynamic building monitoring and management UI. The case study demonstrates BRICKS deployed at different aggregation levels in the authors’ laboratory building, managing a demand response event and interacting autonomously with other BRICKS instances. The results validate the correct functioning of the proposed tool, which contributes to the flexibility, efficiency, and security of building energy systems.

Keywords: context-aware knowledge-base systems; intelligent control; interoperability; semantic reasoning; semantic rule-based systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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