Web-Based Management of Public Buildings: A Workflow Based on Integration of BIM and IoT Sensors with a Web–GIS Portal

• Published in: Buildings (Basel) Vol. 13; no. 5; p. 1327
• Main Authors: Congiu, Eleonora, Desogus, Giuseppe, Frau, Caterina, Gatto, Gianluca, Pili, Stefano
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.05.2023
• Subjects: Alternative energy sources; Architecture and energy conservation; building energy performance; Building information modeling; building information modeling (BIM); Built environment; Case studies; Decision making; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; energy monitoring; Energy research; Facilities management; Geographic information systems; Green technology; indoor environmental monitoring; Internet of Things; IoT sensors; Open systems; Public buildings; Research facilities; Research projects; Sensors; Sustainable energy; Urban environments; web–GIS portal; Workflow
• ISSN: 2075-5309; 2075-5309
• DOI: 10.3390/buildings13051327

In this paper, we present the final results from the research project “Urban Abacus of Building Energy Performances (Abaco Urbano Energeticodegli Edifci–AUREE)” aimed at supporting the renovation process and energy efficiency enhancement of urban building stocks. The crux of the AUREE project is a Web–GIS GeoBlog portal with customized semantic dashboards aimed at sharing information on an urban built environment and promoting the participation of local stakeholders in its improvement. As the latest development of this research, a workflow that integrates the AUREE portal with BIM authoring and an open-source IoT platform is implemented and applied to an experimental case study concerning a public building in Carbonia (Italy). The headquarters of the Sotacarbo Sustainable Energy Research Center was selected as the case study. The presented results proved that it was possible to create a valid open system, which was accessible to both specialist and unskilled users, and aimed at guiding, through a progressive knowledge deepening, common end-users toward proper conscious “energy behaviors” as well as public administrations and decision-makers toward sustainable facility management. Later, the proposed open system could also be suitable to be used as an effective tool to support the rising “energy communities”.