Status: release 1.0.0

This repository holds resources for an initiative to improve interoperability in building management, by focusing on standardising naming of building devices and assets.

Being able to efficiently collect, analyse and leverage data insights from buildings is a catalyst for optimising building performance, improving the use of resources and moving towards predictive maintenance and buildings that can respond to the climate emergency.

The lack of standardised naming and labelling for devices and assets in the built environment means we are failing to leverage the value of data to allow interoperability, improve building efficiency and increase occupant productivity and happiness.

A naming and labelling standard (complementing other industry initiatives ) will simplify and drive consistency, thus increasing value by unlocking the application of technologies such as machine learning.

The work of this community group aligns with and complements other initiatives in the industry such as:

• IFC
• Uniclass and Uniclass2
• Omniclass
• CIBSE Symbols
• UDMI
• Web of Things
• HyperCat
• Project Haystack
• Brick Schema
• Digital Buildings Ontology

In scope for this work are:

• A specification for naming syntax
• A register of building device type abbreviations

The device and asset names defined in this standard are meant to be used in the following applications:

• naming of CAD object instances in drawings
• naming of object instances in BIM models
• naming of control devices in control software (for instance BACnet device names)
• naming of assets in asset management systems
• naming of devices in IoT ingestion systems
• naming of devices and assets in databases
• naming of devices and assets in MQTT topics

At the moment of release 1.0, the standard is primarily focusing on naming of building control devices.

With time, it will also include maintainable asset names.