Final thoughts – data tagging
New IoT sensors and devices will continue to evolve and almost every aspect of a building will become smart, generating massive amounts of data. My biggest concern going forward centers around data tagging and the current lack of a disciplined tagging convention within the industry. Like the issues created by proprietary disparate building systems of the last generation, engineers are creating their own naming and data tagging conventions to describe various elements within a building.
Smart buildings need a data tagging standard that uniquely defines every element within a building to create a common language. Data tagging standards will allow data flow to move quicker and more efficiently between devices, controllers, and interrelated equipment. BrickSchema and Project Haystack were developed to handle these issues; however, they each need to be applied manually, resulting in a very time-consuming and costly process that is prone to errors...
