Welcome and Introduce Yourself

Hello.


I am Dr. Gurusamy Pandian and have been continuously associated with the IET since 1996. Active volunteer involving and organizing technical events for the Engineering community  in Chennai LN from the day one.

Welcome and thanks for introducing yourself Gurusamy Pandian‍!

Thanks for introducing yourself Chaminda‍ - welcome to the community!

Hi All, I am Dr Ozak Esu, IET Council Member and Smart Buildings Technical Lead at BRE(Building Research Establishment). My work involves tackling challenges encountered in the adoption and implementation of IoT devices and networks within buildings. I look forward to actively engaging with you on the subject of IoT and its vast applications.

Welcome Ozak-Obazi Esu‍ Pleased to have a Council member and former winner of YWE in the community!

Hi Ozak-Obazi,

“vast applications” certainly!

I have been working for many years on the application of computer technology/software to lift(UK)/elevator(US) systems which until recently seemed to follow a parallel and disconnected path to the more traditionally recognised building services (HVAC, Access control, energy management, etc, etc). Lifts are probably a special case in that they produce a great range of data (eg car movements, direction commitments, door operations, passenger calls, call allocations to cars, etc) at a very high rate.


In the last few years the IoT has featured with increasing frequency in research publications as well as product development announcements for lifts, and as a result we are seeing a growing level of integration with other building services – passenger calls via mobile devices linked to secure building access, predictive maintenance through intensive condition monitoring,  passenger information feeds from building diaries and tenant/service floor locations (this subject is to be documented in more detail in the forthcoming revision of CIBSE Guide D: “Transportation Systems in Buildings” to be published later this year).

It seemed to me that to use the Internet of Things as its originators intended (and though with much in common, there are several views on exactly what this term actually means!) it is necessary to be able to communicate between the “things” at a semantic level (ie independently of the data encoding, protocols, network topology, etc required to get data from one device to another, both devices must share the same understanding of what it means). To support this goal in the domain of lift systems I have published a schema – Standard Elevator Information Schema – which, in addition to the items listed above defines more complex elements of processed information such as demand profiles, car journey plans and energy consumption. The schema specifies (in a format that is both human and machine readable) the properties, relationships and validation rules that define the information model, which could form the foundation upon which all elements of building transportation control and monitoring systems are constructed. SEIS is published for open access under the Collective Commons licence (www.std4lift.info).

I wonder if you, or anyone else reading this forum, are aware of any similar schemas for information that concerns other building services, either published or under development?

Jonathan Beebe


(PS I didn't know whether to pick this up from Ozak-Obazi's introduction or start a new discussion thread - Natalia D'lima please decide)

Wow! Glad to see you’ve taken me up on my offer to actively engage right away, Jonathan.
Thanks for your message and clear description of your interest area i.e. “Transportation Systems in Buildings”.
At BRE, we have a dedicated team undertaking work to develop schemas and ontologies. Our unique focus in this area is looking into already existing schemas and methods that go beyond the limits of the construction industry, linking ontologies and extending schemas [Examples: schema.org (https://schema.org/), IFC (https://technical.buildingsmart.org/standards/ifc/ifc-schema-specifications/), Hact (https://hact.org.uk/uk-housing-data-standard-version-32), Trustmark (https://www.trustmark.org.uk/ourservices/data-warehouse/data-dictionary) and many others].
There is already a working group extension for IoT in progress for schema.org (https://schema.org/docs/iot-gettingstarted.html) and SAREF(http://saref.linkeddata.es/). Also, there is similarity in the various established built environment schemas with those that come from the gs1 (https://www.gs1.org/voc/).
Additional schemas for information that concerns building services which I am aware of are:

• Brick - https://brickschema.org/

• Project Haystack - https://project-haystack.org/

• BoT - https://w3c-lbd-cg.github.io/bot/

It will be insightful to see suggestions from others in the forum.
If you don’t mind, can you kindly provide your contact details in a private message which I will forward on to one of my colleagues? There is an ongoing initiative for establishing interested parties to become an authority that can define their particular product groups and you will be ideal for a lift ontology based on the great stuff here (www.std4lift.info). I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Kind regards,
Ozak

So many new members of the IoT community over the last few months - we're growing fast!! Welcome to all!!

Phil Sellick
Jenny Yu
Ramamoorthy
Daniel Hobbs
Chineme
Daniel.Nock
Esraa Sada
deroha
Mikeshewitt
Kalpa Kalhara Sampath
Lo Wing Sun
Christopher Millar
Buti
Craig P
Danielle Thomasson
CKYew
Peter Skibsted
Dushyant Batra
Abu Sayed
Isabelle L Hang
MarkA
Michael Wilmot-Dear
Chaminda
Kushal Bhanot
Beaumondo
Ozak-Obazi Esu
Chigozie Emenike
Steve Cooper
Mark Collins MIET
Engr. Ojo
Nandula Karunasingha
Dr Sanjay Kurmar Maurya
Corrina Thomson
Jeremy Watson
Jochem Gonzales
KarthikBG
Shreelakshmi Dinesh

Hello,


I am Corrina Thomson, a recently qualified ICT engineer (telecoms and broadband) and have many years of experience writing about engineering.


I have written for E&T Magazine and Nuclear Engineering International, amongst others.


My interest in IoT is around the uses, connectivity, and security aspects. I am on a steep learning curve with IoT and hope this community will help me to learn more.


I am committed to CPD and am a STEM Ambassador.


If you have any article ideas or any questions, please feel free to message me.