Towards an emulation tool based on ontologies and data life cycles for studying smart buildings
Christophe Cérin, Frédéric Andrès, Danielle Geldwerth-Feniger · 2021
In this paper, we share our vision to study a complex Information Technology (IT) system handling a massive amount of data in the context of 'smart buildings.' One technique for analyzing complex IT systems relies on emulation, where the final software system is fully deployed on real architectures, and is evaluated in considering "small" instances of situations the system is supposed to solve. We propose a software architecture for studying the ecosystem of 'smart buildings'. This software architecture is built: 1) on top of ontologies for the description of smart buildings; 2) on a special tool for mastering the life cycle of data produced by sensors and actuators inside the buildings.