Smart Spaces for Ubiquitously Smart Buildings

Building Automation Work Package participated in the Third International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM), presenting the paper "Smart Spaces for Ubiquitously Smart Buildings" by Kary Främling, Ian Oliver, Jan Nyman and Jukka Honkola,

Building automation is a domain where interoperability between equipment made by different manufacturers is rare. In addition to competing standards, completely proprietary solutions are also common. This is a great challenge for implementing ‘ubiquitously smart buildings’, where building automation systems, user interfaces and services can interact seamlessly. The paper describes how a Semantic Information Broker (SIB) can be used as an enabler of interoperability, where an ecosystem of supplementary services is created through manufacturer-agnostic agents.