Authors:
José L. Hernández
;
Susana Martín
and
César Valmaseda
Affiliation:
Fundación CARTIF, Spain
Keyword(s):
Middleware, Interoperability, Data-model, IFC4, Heterogeneous Data, Interfaces, Data Consistency.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Coupling and Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources
;
Data Warehouses and OLAP
;
Databases and Information Systems Integration
;
Distributed Database Systems
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Middleware Integration
;
Middleware Platforms
;
Object-Oriented Database Systems
;
Technology Platforms
Abstract:
This paper addresses the existing gap in data interoperability among heterogeneous resources for energy service
systems of building automation. In this sense, the middleware is the core of the communication between
heterogeneous data samples and the application services. This kind of solutions integrates the multiple building
data resources to gather the information within the context of energy and buildings and couples the data in
a single signal. The middleware also manages the data in an harmonized way by means of the representation of
the information in a well-established data-model as IFC4 which is widely used in the building topic. This kind
of harmonic communication allows the exchange of information among the entities in complex platforms by
common formats in order to ease the interpretation of data. Then, interoperability is a key factor for achieving
connectivity that is reached in the present middleware though the event-driven communication mechanisms
and the well-known in
terfaces.
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