Discovering the Unseen World Toby Considine Co-Chair oBIX Technical Committee Systems Specialist blog:

The engineered world is invisible and uncontrollable

Established business practices limit information sharing.

Lack of interoperability of information wastes energy

We can no longer afford to make decisions about capital facilities that are not fact based

Information standards will give us visibility and interoperability

Traditional practices do not share information across design, construction, and operation

Every stage of building acquisition is in its own silo Current manufacturing is 66% value added, 26% waste and 12% support. Current construction is 10% value added, 57% waste and 33% support. NIST identified 16 Billion annually in value lost due to non-interoperability of information

Design intents are lost before design

Energy models are extrinsic to design processes

Conflicts are not addressed prior to construction.

Performance and green principles cannot just be bolted on

Use intrinsic energy models to commission the design

Commission buildings to the standard of the energy model

Continuously commission buildings to perform as designed

An integrated information model enables new results

Single model reduces cost while speeding construction

Transfer operating information from design to operations

Create feedback from actual operations to future designs.

Higher performing buildings require interoperable interfaces

Control Protocols are for domain experts only

Control systems are too complex to integrate into operations

Monolithic protocols make system interactions too complex. IP TCP ASCII / Unicode URIs TELNET SMTP IMAP / POP3 HTML

Without nuanced security, systems cannot interact

Interoperable standards create opportunity for service definition

Can my system defend its mission?

Interoperability allows site-based system selection

What could you do if your building was part of your SOA? QoS, Security, Management & Monitoring (Infrastructure Service ) Data Architecture & Business Intelligence Integration Architecture (Enterprise Service Bus) Existing Application Resources and Assets Package Custom Application Services Business Process Components Process Choreography Atomic and Composite Services Enterprise Components Custom Application Package Presentation Layer 8 5 Industry Models Composite service Atomic service

Without situation awareness, services must limit interaction

System integrators must define systems roles

Federated Identity Management ties my identity to my role

Abstraction and security enable interaction

Smart buildings need partners to solve the biggest energy issues.

Buildings that are not responsive are not efficient

40% of energy in North America is used by building operations.

Buildings do not interact with their tenants

Responsive buildings can save 25%-50% of their energy use

The power grid operates under 1930’s business models.

30 days of use is summed and you can read it two weeks later

If you can’t control load, make sure there is always too much

Two-way communication will enable the building to respond

Live markets in energy can improve performance dramatically

Open meter standards enable exchange of live use data

Building agents can respond to prices to solve grid congestion

Only coordination that is simple and secure will scale

Poor data sharing in capital assets are at the heart of some very large societal problems.

We need new business practices based upon information sharing.

We can apply best practices from IT to acquisition and operation of capital assets.

Building information stewardship and open agent-based interfaces bring the hidden world of embedded systems into open and effective use.

Questions? blog:

National Building Information Model Standard (NBIMS)

Open Building Information Exchange (oBIX) open.org/committees/tc_home.php? wg_abbrev=obix open.org/committees/tc_home.php? wg_abbrev=obix server/ server/ -developers -developers

GridWise Architectural Council opframework_v1.pdf opframework_v1.pdf interop.com/2007/agenda/default.as p interop.com/2007/agenda/default.as p

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