BEMSERVER: AN OPEN SOURCE PLATFORM FOR BUILDING ENERGY PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
Authors/Creators
- 1. Nobatek/INEF4 Innovation Center, Talence, France
- 2. Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, Anglet, France
- 3. Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela
- 4. Eurecat Technology Centre, Barcelona, Spain
- 5. American University of Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates
- 6. Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
- 7. Cyric Research Center, Nicosis, Cyprus
Description
In the era of new technologies and with the growing need
for reliable ecological energy supplies, researchers eyes
are diverted towards reducing the energy consumption of
buildings which becomes a major concern that requires
a variety of actors being involved (e.g., building owners,
energy/facility managers, occupants, data scientist), who
have different expertise and need to use different tools
This paper introduces BEMServer, an open source Build-
ing Energy Management system solution built to ease the
integration of data analytic and visualization services into
building and energy domain applications. It handles het-
erogeneous data in a transparent way by providing a clear
and unambiguous semantic representation of the modeled
resources. To do so, BEMServer integrates the OntoH2G
formal ontology at its core. The architecture of BEM-
Server, the design and use of OntoH2G in the solution, as
well as the suitability of BEMServer as a middleware in
the H2020 project Hit2Gap are described