Pereira, Flavia de Andrade;
Katsigarakis, Kyriakos;
Rovas, Dimitrios;
Pritoni, Marco;
Shaw, Conor;
Paul, Lazlo;
Prakash, Anand;
... O'Donnell, James; + view all
(2025)
A semantics-driven framework to enable demand flexibility control applications in real buildings.
Advanced Engineering Informatics
, 64
, Article 103049. 10.1016/j.aei.2024.103049.
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Abstract
Decarbonising and digitalising the energy sector requires scalable and interoperable Demand Flexibility (DF) applications. Semantic models are promising technologies for achieving these goals, but existing studies focused on DF applications exhibit limitations. These include dependence on bespoke ontologies, lack of computational methods to generate semantic models, ineffective temporal data management and absence of platforms that use these models to easily develop, configure and deploy controls in real buildings. This paper introduces a semantics-driven framework to enable DF control applications in real buildings. The framework supports the generation of semantic models that adhere to Brick and SAREF while using metadata from Building Information Models (BIM) and Building Automation Systems (BAS). The work also introduces a web platform that leverages these models and an actor and microservices architecture to streamline the development, configuration and deployment of DF controls. The paper demonstrates the framework through a case study, illustrating its ability to integrate diverse data sources, execute DF actuation in a real building, and promote modularity for easy reuse, extension, and customisation of applications. The paper also discusses the alignment between Brick and SAREF, the value of leveraging BIM data sources, and the framework's benefits over existing approaches, demonstrating a 75% reduction in effort for developing, configuring, and deploying building controls.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A semantics-driven framework to enable demand flexibility control applications in real buildings |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.aei.2024.103049 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2024.103049 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. under a Creative Commons license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Demand flexibility controls, Semantic models, Interoperability, Modularity, Brick, SAREF |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206849 |
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