Realizing the Automated Design of Building Automation Systems

The future design of large and complex building automation systems (BAS) needs to be increasingly efficient. The usage of prefabricated devices and design patterns alone is insufficient to face complex demands. New automated design approaches not only need to take over recurrent tasks, they also have to integrate more direct and smoother methods into the overall design process. This paper addresses that broad scope by introducing an automated functional design concept for BAS. Following a continuous top-down design starting at a platform-independent functional level, a semiautomatic composition over different levels of abstraction towards a full-developed and industry-spanning BAS network is accomplished. Here, devices from different manufacturers are integrated into a properly operating system by incorporating formal interoperability checks. The predominant technologies of the proposed automated design approach are ontologies, generative programming and evolutionary algorithms.