ABSTRACT
Building systems controllers operate in terms of individual system components at several levels. While this allows, in principle, for a distributed implementation of control logic, it also leads to the configurations of environmental systems as isolated sub-systems. Numerous representational schemes have been proposed to describe building elements components, systems, and structures in a standardized fashion. The chapter explores ways of coupling a control-oriented process model with a building product model. It provides a high-level instance of a combined process-product model. The chapter demonstrates how the control process model can be created using a logical and coherent method, so that it could be used for a diverse set of building control applications. As opposed to abundant literature in building product modeling, there is a lack of an explicit ontology for the representation of building control processes.
