Smart Citizen in a Smart Building in Society 5.0
Razvan Rosu · 2023
The relationship between humans and technology is constantly evolving, and we are currently witnessing three major trends that will significantly impact how we build and inhabit communities. Firstly, the energy cost will continuously decrease towards zero through better harvesting and storing energy from renewable sources. Secondly, the cost of acquiring data from citizens will decrease towards zero through the voluntary installation of IoT devices and cyberphysical systems and due to participatory data-sharing tendencies. Lastly, the cost of computation, through improving materials involved, distributed and quantum computing, and communication through 6G and tactile/senses internet, will decrease to zero. As a result, we must pay closer attention to how we build our society in a way that utilizes these abundant resources effectively. In this paper, we explore the potential of smart buildings equipped with cyber-physical systems as a means of building a new community fabric that enables individuals to live a smart life in Society 5.0. We propose an ontology that exemplifies interaction scenarios between smart building inhabitants, smart building control systems, and the city’s marketplace. Furthermore, we discuss how the virtualization of individuals’ residencies using Building Information Modelling (BIM) and the Internet of Things (IoT) can provide a better understanding of their needs and preferences. Virtualization can help building inhabitants experiment with different configurations and test out new ideas while also facilitating the process of finding solutions in the city’s marketplace. Our proposed system can serve as a foundation for advancing research in connecting needs and reality in smart buildings to the marketplace, with potential applications in anonymized data sharing and community-level solutions.