Ontologias como suporte à modelagem da informação na arquitetura, engenharia e construção

Abstract

Ontologies are structures of knowledge organization that can be applied to several domains, including architecture, engineering and civil construction (AEC). In order to establish existing relationships between entities in a given context, it is necessary to link them to representations of graphic modeling, as well as to elaborate their definitions subsidized by a controlled vocabulary. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a technological environment for the management of information in collaborative, interdisciplinary and interoperable processes, which requires the semantic adequacy of entities (be it materials, objects, perspectives) through the validation of commitments Ontological. The connection of Internet of Things (IoT) to the models elaborated via BIM allows to identify and to locate of the entities / objects, to show the interconnection between them and to increase the modeling of the information. This article investigates the theoretical connection between BIM technology, ontologies as controlled vocabularies and IoT within the scope of the AEC. To this end, it presents a review of the literature on the topics mentioned and elaborates empirical descriptions for validation of the preliminary theoretical framework. It is hoped that the simultaneous use of graphical modeling and information modeling will result in the creation of a business perspective in AEC with true correspondence to the real world, while terminologically adequate for IoT.