U.S. Green Building Council, 2101 L Street, NW, Suite 500, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2013 Aug;1295:10-7. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12225.
The real estate industry routinely uses specialized information systems for functions, including design, construction, facilities management, brokerage, tax assessment, and utilities. These systems are mature and effective within vertically integrated market segments. However, new questions are reaching across these traditional information silos. For example, buyers may be interested in evaluating the design, energy efficiency characteristics, and operational performance of a commercial building. This requires the integration of information across multiple databases held by different institutions. Today, this type of data integration is difficult to automate and propone to errors due, in part, to the lack of generally accepted building and spaces identifiers. Moving forward, the real estate industry needs a new mechanism to assign identifiers for whole buildings and interior spaces for the purpose of interoperability, data exchange, and integration. This paper describes a systematic process to identify activities occurring at building or within interior spaces to provide a foundation for exchange and interoperability. We demonstrate the application of the approach with a prototype Web application. This concept and demonstration illustrate the elements of a practical interoperability framework that can increase productivity, create new business opportunities, and reduce errors, waste, and redundancy.
房地产行业通常使用专门的信息系统来完成设计、施工、设施管理、经纪、税务评估和公用事业等功能。这些系统在垂直整合的市场领域中已经成熟且高效。然而，新的问题开始跨越这些传统的信息孤岛。例如，买家可能有兴趣评估商业建筑的设计、能源效率特点和运营性能。这需要整合来自不同机构的多个数据库中的信息。如今，由于缺乏普遍接受的建筑物和空间标识符，这种类型的数据集成很难实现自动化并容易出错。未来，房地产行业需要一种新的机制来为整座建筑物和内部空间分配标识符，以实现互操作性、数据交换和集成。本文描述了一种系统的流程，用于识别在建筑物内或内部空间中发生的活动，为交换和互操作提供基础。我们使用原型 Web 应用程序演示了该方法的应用。这一概念和演示说明了实用互操作性框架的要素，该框架可以提高生产力、创造新的商业机会，并减少错误、浪费和冗余。
