Metadata for Smart Control in Smart Buildings
Pauwels, Pieter; Wang, Lu; Mudiyanselage, Lasitha Chamari Rathnayaka; Barbosa Ramirez, Juan David; Petrova, Ekaterina; Fierro, Gabe; Goia, Francesco
Peer reviewed, Journal article
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2024Metadata
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ASHRAE Journal. 2024, 66 (9), 52-60.Abstract
The topics of data-driven smart buildings and smart control have been emerging in research on smart buildings. A returning point of concern in the creation of a data-driven smart building is the need for metadata and how to encode such metadata. Indeed, in data-driven smart buildings, plenty of telemetric data is collected through sensor points, and the metadata clarifies what such data measures and represents: the meta of data. But what are these metadata, and where can we find them? This article critically reviews the nature of these metadata, while focusing on the different forms that these metadata take in the design and engineering of control systems. This overview allows us to investigate what the added value is of having such metadata available, which will be discussed in an article in the October 2024 ASHRAE Journal.