Universal Building Naming Schema for Cross-Format Metadata
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Solution Overview
Problem
Building modeling systems are limited by specific formats, restricting the use of equipment and software applications to only one format, making it difficult to universally represent and operate on different building model formats.
Innovation Solution
A universal building schema is implemented, allowing processors to receive building metadata, generate entities, and determine relationships between them, creating metadata strings that can represent any building model format using a standardized naming convention, enabling interoperability across various formats.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a specific building model format is used for each piece of building equipment or software application, then the equipment and software can be built to operate on that specific format, but the use of the equipment or software applications is limited to only the specific building model format
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal building model format that can be used across different building equipment and software applications. The system defines a standardized schema that encodes building components, relationships, and metadata in a format that can be universally processed by various tools, eliminating the need for separate format-specific implementations while maintaining broad compatibility and functionality.
2Loss of information
If building metadata is represented with detailed entity types and relationships, then information richness is enhanced, but the complexity of the data structure increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments building information into distinct entity types (spaces, equipment, systems) with standardized attributes and relationships. Each entity is defined with specific properties and hierarchical relationships to parent entities, allowing detailed information representation through modular, organized components rather than monolithic complex structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses standardized parameter schemas to represent building entities, where entity types and relationships are encoded through defined attribute names and value structures. This standardization transforms complex building information into consistent, processable parameters that maintain information richness while enabling systematic handling across different applications.
Data Source
AI summary
A building system of a building, the building system comprising one or more memory devices storing instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive building metadata, the building metadata describing a plurality of components of the building, generate, based on the building metadata, a plurality of entities, each of the plurality of entities representing one of the plurality of components, and determine, based on the building metadata, relationships between the plurality of entities. The instructions cause the one or more processors to generate a plurality of metadata strings in a universal building schema comprising a plurality of characters representing a first entity of the plurality of entities, one or more second entities of the plurality of entities related to the first entity, and one or more relationships between the first entity and the one or more second entities.