A Methodology for Non-programmers to Automatically Establish Facility Management System with Ontology in Building Information Modeling

The application of building information modeling to facility management system has proven to help reduce management costs during operation and maintenance phase. However, whenever this type of facility management system is built and changed, it is often necessary to communicate with 1) programmers and facility experts, 2) facility experts, and 3) facility experts and systems. The study established a framework for abstracting the information of BIM to the architecture and attributes of ontology model based on interviews with several facility experts. Also, write a transition function that transforms UML to SWRL. Finally, the execution result of ontology model is automatically obtained through the ontology platform. Therefore, the experts only need to systemize the domain knowledge to form the UML, and then the result of the logic flow chart can be obtained. In the result section, the facility management system is developed to assist the emergency response through different facility managers and firefighters. The results of the implementation found that in the case of no need for programmers and personally establish and alter the system, the facilities related personnel have higher grasp and trust in the system, and save more time in addition to the convenience of personnel communication.