ABSTRACT: For today’s building operation business, intelligent
building performance analysis solutions with the strength for high
replication potential are on urgent demand. While ICT is available throughout
today’s daily life, it is however still a challenge to bring the right data
at the right time to the right decision makers in order to impact energy
efficiency and savings for buildings, while operating in a highly competitive
market place. With a multitude of BMS solutions and their proprietary
performance calculations approach in the market, improvement of Building
Performance needs to address other data sources as well, like geometric data,
weather, occupancy, building services, and control/actuation data. These
diverse data sources ask for an integrating ICT solution for data
acquisition, storage, and analysis contribute to Building Performance
calculations with emphasis on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Accommodating such information exchange demands the services of an effective
and efficient middleware. This paper provides the description of an
integration middleware and discusses relevant complexities experienced
through achievements concerning the EU FP7 CAMPUS21 project.
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