Building automation/Networking

(Prof. Kabitzsch, Prof. Weber, T-Systems MMS)

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Demographic sustainable and accessible buildings plays building automation a core role. We demonstrate how heterogeneous building functions become compatible through semantic technologies (cf. Fig.). Assistive technologies, such as systems for obstacle recognition and for communication address a multiplicity of user needs in particular in large healthcare buildings and rehabilitation centers. Guidance systems are key to navigation, and robots for care and remote medical services at home improve safety, reduce barriers and through comfortable wireless networking automatize every activities.

EU-project Cloud4All contributes to this setting also some results. This project developed a new infrastructure for a cloud-based software architecture for accessibility, ensuring an individual’s access to accessible technologies, irrespective where they need it and which needs and preferences are linked to the technology needed, without explanation, training, or adaptation by the users.

We present a new recommendation tool allowing to support a house builder’s planning of demands around all functional options of building automation (including classical features such as lighting, control of heating, shadowing and security) and when searching for appropriate controllers. Structural feature of a building are imported from a BIM (http://www.openbim.org/) and results are integrated into the BIM as a multiple model concept.

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