Re: [emergency] Open Floor Plans, Building Telemetry, and BIM

["Carl Reed" <creed@opengeospatial.org>]

Thanks, Toby.

Some information that may be of interest and provides the perspective from 
which the OGC will review the COBie Lite specification.

The OGC, the IETF and ISO (and I suspect others) have standards activities 
related indoor maps, location, navigation, and floor plans. The work of 
these three standards organizations is coordinated. For the OGC, this work 
started in December 2009 with a special one day indoor location and open 
floor plan summit: http://www.ogcnetwork.net/node/624 . Since then, the OGC 
has pursued a number of specific standards activities related to indoor 
location, modeling, navigation, and floor plans: 
http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/1537. InDoorGML is 
designed to be consistent (harmonized with) CityGML, an OGC standard for 
modeling 3d urban content (and also consistent with BIM). CityGML is widely 
used in a number of European nations and has recently become a national 
standard in the Netherlands and is implemented in numerous GIS and CAD 
products.

ISO TC 211 is working a standard for consistent expression and modeling of 
spatial reference systems (as opposed to coordinate reference systems). The 
requirement is seamless navigation from say an outdoor environment to an 
indoor environment. Emergency services is a driving use case.

As to telemetry, the OGC has a broad suite of sensor web enablement 
standards that have been implemented for a variety of in-building 
applications. These standards allow for the description (metadata) of a 
sensor including processes, tasking a sensor, requesting observations 
(measurements) from a sensor, and modeling observations in a consistent 
manner .



From: Toby Considine
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 7:39 AM
To: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org
Cc: Deborah MacPherson
Subject: [emergency] Open Floor Plans, Building Telemetry, and BIM


BIM is something big, fat and process-driven. COBie, meant to be an 
interchange format has been hampered by formatted in EXPRESS (ISO10303-21). 
No one wants to process that or use it or validate it. NIBS and the IFC 
Process have been working with hard to adopt, hard to promulgate standards 
for some time. (There is nothing wrong with EXPRESS – it’s simply 
unfashionable today, enterprise and service interactions have gone another 
direction)



Last summer, CERL used the OASIS CAM Specification to create clean schemas 
that are ready for service interactions. The results are NIEM conformant, 
which means ready for enterprise integration.



http://buildingsmartalliance.org/index.php/projects/cobielite/



This TC has an identified interest in Open Floor Plans, currently more an 
aspiration than a specification. To my mind, Open Floor Plans has several 
elements.



1)      There is a UI element, to describe the spatial stuff. How many rooms 
on the 4th floor? Where is room 208? Which rooms share the same ventilation?

2)      There is a descriptive element. This could be a formal profile of 
COBie Light

3)      There is an ongoing telemetry issue, including a need for 
BIM-derived metadata in the telemetry. oBIX and the Energy Services / 
Streams notions described in WS-Calendar and in Energy Interoperation can 
each serve the telemetry. A subset schema of COBie Lite could provide the 
metadata.



There are certainly other valid opinions on how to fit this together. In any 
case, I recommend that TC members interested in this portion of 
Building-Emergency situation awareness submit comments on the COBie Lite 
specification, now out for initial public review.



tc







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Toby Considine
TC9, Inc

TC Chair: oBIX & WS-Calendar

TC Editor: EMIX, EnergyInterop

U.S. National Inst. of Standards and Tech. Smart Grid Architecture Committee







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