Challenges in Facility Management

and Building Management Systems

Adam Kuera, VV041 English for Academic Purposes
27. 11. 2013
Outline
FM, BMS & State of the art
Proposed use cases
Research topics
Conclusions
FM, BMS & State of the art

What we can do now

Facility Management
FM ensures tasks that are not part of organizations core
business
CAFM = Computer-Aided Facility Management
Building Management System
Computer based
Ensures operation and integration of various technologies
installed in the building
Common user interface, logging, alarms/notifications
BMS at MU: over 30 buildings, 5 sites / faculties, 800
devices, common network
CAFM software
BMS software
Issues
CAFM
Based and focused mostly on economical data
Insufficient integration of real operational data
BMS
Flexibility
User friendliness
Advanced tools are missing
Two groups of people:
Knows how to analyze data but cant get them
Knows how to get the data but cant analyze them
Proposed use cases

We want to do it this way

Proposed use cases
Facility manager should be able to query the system in
similar manner to those examples:
Show me which rooms on the second floor of A11 building had
running AC units during last 8 weekends.
Tomorrow morning, I want to receive report about electricity
consumption in 5 minute intervals for those 4 buildings during
this night.
I want to know which devices influence temperature in office
of Mr./Mrs. XY.
Requirements
User must be able to place the queries in convenient way
As close to natural language as possible
Using graphic user interface (GIS)
The system must provide data:
As quickly as possible
In easily understandable way
Tasks and research topics

What is needed to make it real

Develop model
Describe relations between elements of the system
Locations (buildings, rooms,...)
Devices (PLCs, AC units,...)
Environmental variables (temperature, humidity)
Data records/points
Integrate data form various systems BMS, GIS, CAFM
Represent the model in queryable way
Develop applications & infrastructure
OLAP database & Business intelligence tools
Machine learning & Data mining
Complex Event Processing
Provide UI

Allow users to query the systems in convenient way (as

close to natural language as possible)
Present the results in understandable way
Integrate UI with GIS
Compose query
Parse query provided by user
Get subset of needed data based on model
Select appropriate tool (CEP/ML/BI)
Compose query for corresponding tool
Conclusions
Current commercial state of the art systems dont
utilize operation data optimally
Inflexible, slow, isolated, complicated
Modern approaches form the field of information sciences
can be applied in order to support data analysis and
decision support:
Ontologies
Model-driven approaches
Event-driven approaches
Machine learning, Data Mining
...
Thank you for your attention.

Questions?