Location-Based Services (LBS),an emerging new business based on smartphone and mobile networks,are becoming more and more popular.Most of these LBSs,however,only offer non-seamless indoor/outdoor applications and simp...Location-Based Services (LBS),an emerging new business based on smartphone and mobile networks,are becoming more and more popular.Most of these LBSs,however,only offer non-seamless indoor/outdoor applications and simple applications without giving stakeholders the chance to play an active role.Our specific aim is to solve these issues.This paper presents concepts to solve these issues by expanding the Open Location Services Interface Standard (OpenLS) to allow seamless indoor/outdoor positioning and to extend the content of the services to include information recommended by stakeholders.展开更多
Facility management departments’responsibilities include monitoring and maintenance of building infrastructure,such as water,gas or electricity.Very often these tasks are completed using paper maps,which make integra...Facility management departments’responsibilities include monitoring and maintenance of building infrastructure,such as water,gas or electricity.Very often these tasks are completed using paper maps,which make integrated analysis of networks challenging.Ability to consider interior network structure and provide semantic and connectivity information supporting the required analysis operations are thus crucial.This paper presents an approach relying on Building Information Model(BIM)as a data source for obtaining information about interior utilities.The semantic and connectivity information of BIM is mapped onto a new model called Network for Interior Building Utilities(NIBU).NIBU is based on the semantic categorisation of utilities,and the spatial functions that have to be performed.Three scenarios(‘maintenance operation’,‘emergency response’and‘inspection operation’)are developed to test the proposed approach.The model and its functions are implemented in spatial DBMS.The model is populated directly from a BIM server applying an Industrial Foundation Class(IFC)parser developed in-house.Five analysis functions are implemented to support spatial operations:trace upstream,trace downstream,find ancestors,find source and find disconnected.The investigation proves that BIM provides both the required semantics and attributes,and connectivity information that can facilitate analysis of interior utility networks.NIBU provides a simple yet flexible way to manage interior network information,which can be integrated into Digital Earth.展开更多
National spatial data infrastructures are key to achieving the Digital Earth vision.In many cases,national datasets are integrated from local datasets created and maintained by municipalities.Examples are address,buil...National spatial data infrastructures are key to achieving the Digital Earth vision.In many cases,national datasets are integrated from local datasets created and maintained by municipalities.Examples are address,building and topographic information.Integration of local datasets may result in a dataset satisfying the needs of users of national datasets,but is it productive for those who create and maintain the data?This article presents a stakeholder analysis of the Basisregistratie Adressen en Gebouwen(BAG),a collection of base information about addresses and buildings in the Netherlands.The information is captured and maintained by municipalities and integrated into a national base register by Kadaster,the Cadastre,Land Registry and Mapping Agency of the Netherlands.The stakeholder analysis identifies organisations involved in the BAG governance framework,describes their interests,rights,ownerships and responsibilities in the BAG,and maps the relationships between them.Analysis results indicate that Kadaster and the municipalities have the highest relative importance in the governance framework of the BAG.The study reveals challenges of setting up a governance framework that maintains the delicate balance between the interests of all stakeholders.The results provide guidance for SDI role players setting up governance frameworks for national or global datasets.展开更多
This paper describes a framework for modeling interdependencies between different network systems and building structures.It provides an approach for the integrated analysis of interior building utilities by describin...This paper describes a framework for modeling interdependencies between different network systems and building structures.It provides an approach for the integrated analysis of interior building utilities by describing a framework to model and simulate infrastructure interdependencies and their complex behaviors.It is a graph-based spatial model that can support use cases such as providing the location and specifications of interior utilities to a technician who wants to perform a maintenance operation.This location could be needed for maintenance or replacement,or to investigate the result of damage to the building structure on another utility network,or to estimate the effect of different maintenance operations in different locations along utilities service systems.The model accounts for two important aspects:first,the relationship between interior utilities and building elements or spaces and second,the building hierarchy structure to which the utilities network is related.A proper hierarchy of the building is developed which supports the generation of human-oriented descriptions of interior utilities,where a method for partitions of large building element and spaces as well as a method to reference a network element to another building are developed.The connection of the different utilities network systems and buildings are generated using joints,which are based on a containment relation.An example is presented which shows the effectiveness of this approach for supporting maintenance operations,as well as the independences between the maintenance operation location and the other network systems.The paper presents the data model and explains the links with current 3D building model standards.展开更多
For storing and modeling three-dimensional(3D)topographic objects(e.g.buildings,roads,dykes,and the terrain),tetrahedralizations have been proposed as an alternative to boundary representations.While in theory they ha...For storing and modeling three-dimensional(3D)topographic objects(e.g.buildings,roads,dykes,and the terrain),tetrahedralizations have been proposed as an alternative to boundary representations.While in theory they have several advantages,current implementations are either not space efficient or do not store topological relationships(which makes spatial analysis and updating slow,or require the use of an expensive 3D spatial index).We discuss in this paper an alternative data structure for storing tetrahedralizations in a database management system(DBMS).It is based on the idea of storing only the vertices and stars of edges;triangles and tetrahedra are represented implicitly.It has been used previously in main memory,but not in a DBMS.We describe how to modify it to obtain an efficient implementation in a DBMS,and we describe how it can be used for modeling 3D topography.As we demonstrate with different real-world examples,the structure is compacter than known alternatives,it permits us to store attributes for any primitives,and has the added benefit of being topological,which permits us to query it efficiently.The structure can be easily implemented in most DBMS(we describe our implementation in PostgreSQL),and we present some of the engineering choices we made for the implementation.展开更多
文摘Location-Based Services (LBS),an emerging new business based on smartphone and mobile networks,are becoming more and more popular.Most of these LBSs,however,only offer non-seamless indoor/outdoor applications and simple applications without giving stakeholders the chance to play an active role.Our specific aim is to solve these issues.This paper presents concepts to solve these issues by expanding the Open Location Services Interface Standard (OpenLS) to allow seamless indoor/outdoor positioning and to extend the content of the services to include information recommended by stakeholders.
文摘Facility management departments’responsibilities include monitoring and maintenance of building infrastructure,such as water,gas or electricity.Very often these tasks are completed using paper maps,which make integrated analysis of networks challenging.Ability to consider interior network structure and provide semantic and connectivity information supporting the required analysis operations are thus crucial.This paper presents an approach relying on Building Information Model(BIM)as a data source for obtaining information about interior utilities.The semantic and connectivity information of BIM is mapped onto a new model called Network for Interior Building Utilities(NIBU).NIBU is based on the semantic categorisation of utilities,and the spatial functions that have to be performed.Three scenarios(‘maintenance operation’,‘emergency response’and‘inspection operation’)are developed to test the proposed approach.The model and its functions are implemented in spatial DBMS.The model is populated directly from a BIM server applying an Industrial Foundation Class(IFC)parser developed in-house.Five analysis functions are implemented to support spatial operations:trace upstream,trace downstream,find ancestors,find source and find disconnected.The investigation proves that BIM provides both the required semantics and attributes,and connectivity information that can facilitate analysis of interior utility networks.NIBU provides a simple yet flexible way to manage interior network information,which can be integrated into Digital Earth.
基金Jantien Stoter is funded by the H2020 European Research Council(ERC)under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Programme[grant agreement No 677312 UMnD].
文摘National spatial data infrastructures are key to achieving the Digital Earth vision.In many cases,national datasets are integrated from local datasets created and maintained by municipalities.Examples are address,building and topographic information.Integration of local datasets may result in a dataset satisfying the needs of users of national datasets,but is it productive for those who create and maintain the data?This article presents a stakeholder analysis of the Basisregistratie Adressen en Gebouwen(BAG),a collection of base information about addresses and buildings in the Netherlands.The information is captured and maintained by municipalities and integrated into a national base register by Kadaster,the Cadastre,Land Registry and Mapping Agency of the Netherlands.The stakeholder analysis identifies organisations involved in the BAG governance framework,describes their interests,rights,ownerships and responsibilities in the BAG,and maps the relationships between them.Analysis results indicate that Kadaster and the municipalities have the highest relative importance in the governance framework of the BAG.The study reveals challenges of setting up a governance framework that maintains the delicate balance between the interests of all stakeholders.The results provide guidance for SDI role players setting up governance frameworks for national or global datasets.
基金the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) under the Program:Research Grants for Doctoral Candidates and Young Academics and Scientists
文摘This paper describes a framework for modeling interdependencies between different network systems and building structures.It provides an approach for the integrated analysis of interior building utilities by describing a framework to model and simulate infrastructure interdependencies and their complex behaviors.It is a graph-based spatial model that can support use cases such as providing the location and specifications of interior utilities to a technician who wants to perform a maintenance operation.This location could be needed for maintenance or replacement,or to investigate the result of damage to the building structure on another utility network,or to estimate the effect of different maintenance operations in different locations along utilities service systems.The model accounts for two important aspects:first,the relationship between interior utilities and building elements or spaces and second,the building hierarchy structure to which the utilities network is related.A proper hierarchy of the building is developed which supports the generation of human-oriented descriptions of interior utilities,where a method for partitions of large building element and spaces as well as a method to reference a network element to another building are developed.The connection of the different utilities network systems and buildings are generated using joints,which are based on a containment relation.An example is presented which shows the effectiveness of this approach for supporting maintenance operations,as well as the independences between the maintenance operation location and the other network systems.The paper presents the data model and explains the links with current 3D building model standards.
基金This research is supported by the Dutch Technology Foundation STW,which is part of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research(NWO),and which is partly funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs(project codes:11300 and 11185).
文摘For storing and modeling three-dimensional(3D)topographic objects(e.g.buildings,roads,dykes,and the terrain),tetrahedralizations have been proposed as an alternative to boundary representations.While in theory they have several advantages,current implementations are either not space efficient or do not store topological relationships(which makes spatial analysis and updating slow,or require the use of an expensive 3D spatial index).We discuss in this paper an alternative data structure for storing tetrahedralizations in a database management system(DBMS).It is based on the idea of storing only the vertices and stars of edges;triangles and tetrahedra are represented implicitly.It has been used previously in main memory,but not in a DBMS.We describe how to modify it to obtain an efficient implementation in a DBMS,and we describe how it can be used for modeling 3D topography.As we demonstrate with different real-world examples,the structure is compacter than known alternatives,it permits us to store attributes for any primitives,and has the added benefit of being topological,which permits us to query it efficiently.The structure can be easily implemented in most DBMS(we describe our implementation in PostgreSQL),and we present some of the engineering choices we made for the implementation.
