A KRUKOWSKI et al: COMPREHENSIVE BUILDING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM APPROACH IJSSST, Vol. 11, No. 3 ISSN: 1473-804x online, 1473-8031 print 12 Comprehensive Building Information Management System Approach Artur Krukowski Intracom S. A. Telecom Solutions, 19.7km Markopoulou Av., 19002 Peania, Greece krukowa@intracom.com Sofoklis Efremidis Athens Information Technology, 19 Markopoulou Avenue, Paiania, 19002, Greece sefr@ait.edu.gr Kalevi Piira and Olli Stenlund VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, P.O. Box 1000, FI-02044 VTT, Finland Kalevi.Piira@vtt.fi , Olli.Stenlund@vtt.fi Dusan Arsenijevic UNIBRAIN S. A. Peania, Greece dusan@unibrain.gr Abolghasem (Hamid) Asgari Thales Research & Technology (UK) Limited, Worton Drive, Reading RG2 0SB, United Kingdom Hamid.Asgari@thalesgroup.com Anu Kätkä and Jarno Mitjonen Lonix Ltd Teollisuuskatu 33, FI-00510 Helsinki, Finland Anu.Katka@lonix.com , Jarno.Mitjonen@lonix.com Abstract - The paper presents the results of a joint work on the Integrated Building Information Management System developed and tested in the frame of the European research project I3CON funded from the 6 th Framework Program. This innovative system proposes an innovative approach to dealing with building information managing, employing Wireless Sensor Networks and the Rule Based Engine for monitoring the building environment as well as for automatic control of its infrastructures (water, electricity, heating, cooling etc). It involved also the development of integrated user interfaces allowing location and context aware operation of the mobile system including methods and tools for their implementation for Building Service Operative applications. This allows mobile service personnel to have a full access to the building information system from their mobile terminals enhanced with location awareness (employing latest active RFID technologies), context awareness and multi-modal user interfaces for hands- free intuitive operation of a mobile system with little or no need for manual operation or control. A generic object browser was developed enabling of browsing building automation objects in real-time as well as static building database objects and properties using standard data communication protocols. The described technologies have been already deployed and tested in real environment of the residential Margarita building in the center of Madrid. Keywords: Multimodal User Interfaces, Building Control, RFID Positioning, Content Adaptation, Context Adaptation, Personalisation, Profiling, Wireless Sensor Network, WSN, Building Management System. I. INTRODUCTION I3CON 1 project aims at enhancing the sustainability of the European construction industry by delivering industrially produced, integrated processes and intelligent building systems using distributed control systems with embedded sensors, wireless connections, ambient user interfaces and autonomous controllers. New value based business models with highly specialized SMEs working in radically contracted supply chains are expected to deliver high performance spaces, smart business services and lifecycle solutions. 1 This work was conducted in the frame of the European research project NEM-I3CON-026771-2 “Industrialized, Integrated, Intelligent Construction”. This project received funding from the 6 th Framework Program (FP6) of the European Commission (EC). The EC has no responsibility for the content of this paper. Information in this document reflects only the views of the authors, and is provided as is, and no guarantee or warranty is given that the information is fit for any particular purpose. Within this framework I3CON foresees the use of advanced terminal devices for supporting the diverse set of Building Operational Services (BOS). Because of the nature of their work, communication of building related information to the operational services personnel is expected to employ highly intuitive and natural user interfaces resulting in minimal interaction overhead. Such interfaces are to exploit a variety of modalities, including visual and audible in addition to context & location- awareness. In this work we determined the specification and performed an implementation of multimodal interfaces to building data (real time and static model) accessible via building service gateway (BSG) for use by the operation services personnel, based on narrowband (text, data) and broadband (voice, video, images etc) services, enabling voice/speech/video interactions and user profiling. Parallel to this we developed a Generic Object Browser (GOB) application for viewing dynamic real time objects from building automation systems as well as static building data objects from the BIM databases. In order to enable context and ambient awareness for mobile application we developed an RFID-based wireless