SBEO: Smart Building Evacuation Ontology

Abstract

Semantically rich depiction of the concepts for context-aware indoor routing brings appealing benefits for the safety of occupants of smart spaces in emergency evacuation. In this paper, we propose Smart Building Evacuation Ontology (SBEO3), a reusable ontology for indoor spaces, based on three different data models: user, building, and context. We provide a common representation of indoor routing and navigation, describe users? characteristics and preferences, grouping of individuals and their role in a specific context, hazards, and emergency evacuation. Among other characteristics, we consider abilities of individuals, safety and accessibility of spaces related to each person, intensity, impact, and severity of an emergency event or activity. SBEO is flexible and compatible with other ontologies of its domain, including SEAS, SSN/SOSA, SEMA4A, and empathi. We evaluate SBEO based on several metrics demonstrating that it addresses the information needs for the context-aware route recommendation system for emergency evacuation in indoor spaces. In the end, a simulation-based application example exploits SBEO using Context-Aware Emergency Evacuation Software (CAREE).

Semi-Automatic Ontology Development Framework for Building Energy Data Management

“…Therefore, we define our framework as semi-automatic. Finally, we demonstrate the ontology development framework for the building energy domain and provide an exemplary case using this ontology development framework to generate the Building Energy Ontology based on SAREF4ENER [13], SAREF4BLDG [14], SBEO [15], SARGON [16], EM-KPI Ontology [17], FIWARE [18], Schema.org [19], and EPC4EU [20].…”

“…Since we have already determined several ontologies for the building domain in the Ontology Reuse step, we keep only the four concepts: Certificate, Certifier, Energy System, and Energy Conversion System in the UML diagram of EPC4EU. As shown in Figure 3 Ontology Domain Public Available SAREF4BLDG [14] Energy, Building, Device Yes SARGON [16] Energy, Building, Device Yes BONSAI [64] Energy, Building Yes Think Home Ontology [65] Energy, Building, Weather, Person Yes Building Topology Ontology [66] Building Yes BCOM [67] Building, Person Yes IFC [68] Building No SBEO [69] Building, Device, Person Yes BIMERR Ontology [70] Building, Device, Weather Yes SAREF4ENER [71] Energy, Device Yes MIRABEL [72] Energy, Device No SEMANCO [73] Energy, Building No ISO 37120 [74] Energy Yes EM-KPI-ontology [17] Energy, Building, Device, Weather Yes FSO [75] Energy, Device Yes SSN [17] Device Yes SOSA [76] Device Yes vCard [77] Person Yes Time Ontology [78] Calendar Yes DBpedia [36] General Yes…”