A review of building information modeling (BIM) and the internet of things (IoT) devices integration: Present status and future trends
By Shu Tang, Dennis R. Shelden, C. Eastman, Pardis Pishdad-Bozorgi, Xinghua Gao. Automation in Construction, 2019
753 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Abstract The integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) with real-time data from the Internet of Things (IoT) devices presents a powerful paradigm for applications to improve construction and operational efficiencies. Connecting real-time data streams from the rapidly expanding set of IoT sensor networks to the high-fidelity BIM models provides numerous applications. However, BIM and IoT integration research are still in nascent stages, there is a need to understand the current situation of BIM and IoT device integration. This paper conducts a comprehensive review with the intent to identify common emerging areas of application and common design patterns in the approach to tackling BIM-IoT device integration along with an examination of current limitations and predictions of future research directions. Altogether, 97 papers from 14 AEC related journals and databases in other industry over the last decade were reviewed. Several prevalent domains of application namely Construction Operation and Monitoring, Health & Safety Management, Construction Logistic & Management, and Facility Management were identified. The authors summarized 5 integration methods with description, examples, and discussion. These integration methods are utilizing BIM tools' APIs and relational database, transform BIM data into a relational database using new data schema, create new query language, using semantic web technologies and hybrid approach. Based on the observed limitations, prominent future research directions are suggested, focusing on service-oriented architecture (SOA) patterns and web services-based strategies for BIM and IoT integration, establishing information integration & management standards, solving interoperability issue, and cloud computing.
Subfields: Building and Construction, Computer Networks and Communications, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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Citations in the corpus
- From BIM to digital twins: a systematic review of the evolution of intelligent building representations in the AEC-FM industry (2021, neutral): “Existing studies have adopted BIM and IoT technologies for many aspects such as designing a building, monitoring, and management of construction processes, building facilities, and indoor environment management (Machado et al. 2018, Shahinmoghadam and Motamedi 2019, Tang et al. 2019).”
- Digital Twin: Vision, Benefits, Boundaries, and Creation for Buildings (2019, background): “from sensors and IoT devices) are underway [17]; these efforts, in turn would benefit the buildings that already have implemented BIM or are willing to undertake the effort and cost of creating BIM documentation.”
- A research agenda for augmented and virtual reality in architecture, engineering and construction (2020, background): “Tang et al. [168] note that to facilitate the integration between IoT devices and built environment systems the following is required: integrating built environment systems with relational databases, a new data schema, a new query language, leverage semantic web technologies, and develop and hybrid…”