Blending Building Information with Smart City Data

The increasingly urbanized world together with modernization and industrialization trends has led to the explosive growth of city information. Cities can be considered as data factories that daily produce a huge amount of data from different sources such as people, infrastructure, machines, events, sensors, and smart devices. In the context of Smart City, built environments play an important role and convey a lot of useful information that can be used to realize the Smart City goals. Currently, the Building Information Modeling (BIM) methods are used intensively to capture the building information. Conventionally, building models are used during the planning and construction phases of buildings and mainly address the static aspects of buildings. In the Smart City era however, the situation is changing. During the operation phase, buildings are now producing more data than ever before. This paper is aiming to address the data integration challenges of BIM in context of Smart City by utilizing the current research work in the Linked Data domain in order to facilitate the interoperability between and beyond BIM resources.