BOCEMON
BOCEMON is an imec.ICON project, consisting of three industry partners (Quares, DYAMAND and Daikin) and
various IDLab teams (PreDICT, KNoWS, HomeLab, Antwerp) within the building management domain.
It's a 2-year project that will start 1/10/2024.
Project aim: To convert office buildings into truly sustainable, comfortable, healthy and
flexible spaces extra services are needed to help building and facility managers to decide on
building upgrade investments, optimally allocate office spaces and dynamically control HVAC systems.
Such services require access to a broad range of data sources (HVAC data, user feedback, BIM models, etc.) via
easy accessible interfaces, but current deployment requires a lot of (manual) work as data is often
distributed over many systems, using different protocols and data models.
There is a clear need to extend the interoperability capabilities between stakeholders and
service providers involved in the building lifecycle, to enable a rapid scaling to many buildings.
BOCEMON will develop tools to allow service providers to prototype, test and deploy their services much faster.
By using a semantic data model a wide range of building services will be supported and
data exchange with diverse stakeholders will be improved.
Accompanying tools will be designed by IDLab.KNoWS for easy service design,
to explore the available data in the semantic data model, and by
IDLab.PreDICT to automatically visualize sensor data on floor plans.
IDLab.KNoWS will collaborate with DYAMAND to design an automatic onboarding service
to improve the discovery and mapping of sensors and actuators onto this domain model.
Hybrid AI based transfer learning methodologies will be designed by IDLab.
PreDICT and will allow the efficient transfer of ML models
(e.g. to derive trends & patterns on user behavior, occupancy, building health state, etc.)
between different building contexts.
AI based algorithms will be designed to support investment decisions to
realize sustainable and comfortable buildings, and
realize a fine-grained occupant-centric and interoperable HVAC control.