ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on generating comprehensive and self-updating models of the physical and behavioral aspects of facilities over their life cycle. It describes a project for improving building services by collecting comprehensive data from variable sources and generating high-resolution models of buildings. The chapter examines a range of existing location sensing technologies from the building automation perspective. It outlines the implementation of a specific location sensing system together with respective test results. Building automation is expected to improve building performance by reducing the operation and maintenance costs of buildings, improving environmental performance, augmenting human comfort, and providing higher safety levels. Prior to the implementation of a location sensing system, the available technologies are examined from the building automation perspective. Most available location systems use tags, small items affixed to the actual objects to be tracked. Location information is obtained by signal exchange between these tags and a sensor infrastructure.
