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Machine learning improves missing connections in building equipment graphs

Automated Brick Schema Knowledge Graph Completion Across Buildings

Abstract: The Brick schema represents building equipment, sensors, spaces, and the relationships between them as typed, multi-relational graphs, providing machine-readable metadata that supports generalizable control applications. Current methods for producing complete Brick models require extensive manual examination of building schematics and point lists. We observe that as Brick models are knowledge graphs, inferring missing relations is naturally posed as a knowledge graph completion problem. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first application of knowledge graph completion to Brick model generation. We compare three methods, gradient-boosted trees, Pairwise Brick Relation Ranking, and CompGCN, on the relations feeds, hasPart, and hasPoint, which account for the majority of the schematic-reading work in building a Brick model by hand. Models are evaluated on held-out MORTAR buildings and out-of-distribution Kaggle and Building Time Series data. Although CompGCN is the strongest performer on held-out buildings under metrics resistant to class imbalance, leading macro-F1 and AUPRC, no method generalizes uniformly across datasets or relations.

Mon 19 OctMachine Learning
The gist
Buildings have many sensors and equipment connected in complex ways, and describing these connections is important for smart building controls. The Brick schema is a way to map these relationships, but building these maps by hand is slow and hard. The authors test computer methods to guess the missing connections automatically, comparing three techniques on different building datasets. They find that one method, CompGCN, works best on some tests, but no single method is perfect across all cases.
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