Application of Web-Technologies in Building Information Systems: the case of the Monitoring System Toolkit (MOST)

Building information systems collect building related sensor data. This data is processed and distributed to various users. The present contribution discusses the application of web technologies in building information systems and aims to give an overview of interesting applications and current research and development fields. The analysis is conducted using the example of the Monitoring System Toolkit, a vendor and platform independent building monitoring system that is developed at the Department of Building Physics and Building Ecology at the Vienna University of Technology. This work aims to provide a technological overview of communication processes, data storage and distribution mechanisms as well as representation workflows. The migration process from relational to non-relational data stores is introduced, including the extraction of processing logic from a relational database. Furthermore, the concepts behind homogenous data organization (data structures) and communication flows across the application layers and services are introduced.