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Case study: Integrating an intelligent campus

A flexible and adaptable solution enabled future expansion for this campus.

WSP USA has followed these best practices — goal-setting and metrics development, design of foundational infrastructure to support integrated building systems and system selection based on the aforementioned criteria  — to enable an intelligent campus  with  connected building systems across  the   combination of commercial, industrial and transportation buildings .  

A large client  wanted  a tool to manage operations for building management systems and campus-level utilities. The owner’s desire was to understand, manage and improve energy consumption data to meet  sustainability targets, including net zero energy. Across its campus of 90-plus existing buildings, 35 disparate building management systems existed, as did 1,500 meters that monitored gas, water, thermal and electrical consumption. Many were legacy, outdated systems that could not share data in their current state and were connected to various, unmanaged and disconnected networks.   

The two biggest challenges for this client were:  

• T he associated high cost to upgrade the entire campus to meet sustainability and performance goals while maintaining 24/7 operations .    
• T he selection of new systems and/or devices to improve energy performance, occupant experience, operational efficiency and equipment performance.   

WSP USA led visioning sessions to understand and define stakeholder expectations and establish workflow organization. These sessions brought together stakeholder groups that usually worked in silos  —  such as facility managers, sustainability organizations and  information technology   —  to improve the overall operations of the campus and identify a common vision.   

In smart building projects like this one,  IT  stakeholders had a crucial role as more existing and new systems were connected to fewer common networks.  WSP USA also advised the owner on best practices in implementing a smart building by using Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and U.S. Department of Energy research initatives such as the  Better Buildings Initiative .  

A detailed site assessment was necessary to evaluate the existing systems and infrastructure across the campus. Campus facility managers were involved in site walks to capture the institutional knowledge of how systems operate. A range of subject matter experts and thought leaders in the areas of technology, sustainability, building utility ( mechanical, electrical, plumbing , lighting, acoustics) and financial advisory services were included as part of the team to understand the variety of systems across the campus. The team of consultants advised the stakeholders on the roadmap for upgrading and integrating systems as well as developing future-ready standards for continued operations into the foreseeable future. Phasing of the upgrades was crucial due to the continuous operations and necessary infrastructure improvements.  

WSP USA developed a flexible and adaptable solution to enable future expansion for this intelligent campus. All meters and systems were integrated to a converged network to improve  IT  operational efficiencies and management. Additionally, all existing systems were upgraded to share data using common communication protocols and follow a similar metadata tagging model. Data from every system was stored in a central data repository serving as the “source of truth” and is maintained by  IT  for availability to different users.   

While there was a current market desire for all data to be visible from one central point or system   considered a  single pane of glass, the solution included multiple applications to meet stakeholder operational, visualization and reporting needs. This enabled the best – in – class applications to be selected for each of the operational requirements or identified goals rather than compromising features for a single application. This design required the outlined foundational infrastructure to support the modular approach and the ability to modify and/or add features or additional applications in the future.    

The applications had to be user-intuitive and convenient to ensure long-term use by the stakeholders. In many cases, the applications streamlined the stakeholders’ current work processes and reduced the manual labor necessary to produce monthly reports. In addition, one application provided a single user-interface for control, giving convenient access to many systems across the campus and significantly improving the stakeholders’ ability to complete daily tasks.   

Based on the identified sustainability goals and operational efficiency metrics, dashboards and reports were built to compare the real-time performance of each building in meeting these goals. Low – performing buildings were highlighted to easily help stakeholders focus on the worst performers in improving campus performance. The dashboards then provided insights into what actions stakeholders could take to diagnose and correct current problems or information needed to support equipment replacements or future capital projects.   

As the campus continues to expand and upgrade, it will need the ability to adapt its tools to meet evolving sustainability goals and improve upon learned performance. Interoperability and flexibility among systems will continue to be important throughout these upgrades.   

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Integrated building management and BMS systems explained

The Building Management System (BMS system) and the practice of building automation in the age of IP, IoT (Internet of Things) , big data , advanced analytics and hyper-connectivity. An intelligent and integrated building management systems evolution and solution overview.

Building management typically used to cover specific aspects of the management and efficiency of buildings overall. Yet, the building management systems market has been changing faster in recent years, with accelerating evolutions in intelligent and integrated building management systems as a result.

Today, we are amidst big changes once again and this time it’s highly transformational for the industry as IoT (Internet of Things) , advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (AI),  cloud computing and an increasing movement towards the edge ( edge computing ) and IP ( Internet Protocol ) are all essential drivers in an increasingly connected data age .

The essence of these changes: hyper-connectivity for integrated building management systems whereby the increasing connected role of the building management system (BMS) makes it take center stage again. And it’s not just about the fact that various other systems are being connected to building management systems as we’ll see.

As mentioned the role of IP and IoT, as well as related technologies and ever more data, is essential in these evolutions and continues to change the market.

The BMS market is expected to reach USD 19.25 billion by 2023

Moreover, we’ve only started to begin seeing what IoT and technologies such as big data analytics and artificial intelligence mean and will mean for building management and BMS in an increasingly intelligent buildings environment and ongoing hyper-connectivity. Myriad evolutions in the construction industry where we see the increasing importance of BIM (building information modeling) , augmented reality, digital twins , and a range of emerging platforms, making the picture even more complex. And, of course, it all integrates with all the other technologies.

What is intelligent building management and why a Building Management System?

Before looking at the many evolutions in BMS it might be useful to first look at what a building management system or BMS is and why people also speak about intelligent building management systems and integrated building management systems as all these terms are used across this article.

Building Management Systems and Building Automation Systems

With its very long history and many evolutions, building management has its jargon and that does often lead to confusion.

The BMS is now the hub whereas before you could argue that it was the IT system that defined the criteria for the design of the building (Martin Feder)

You’ll also notice that some research firms look at the BMS market, while other focus on the iBMS market, for example. As the name indicates a BMS, short for Building Management System, is an integrated system enabling the management, control and partial automation of several building systems and functions.

The term BMS is often interchangeably used with BAS, short for Building Automation System.

It is also often interchangeably used with the acronym BEMS, standing for Building Energy Management System and with EMS, which stands for Energy Management System as we’ll see next.

A BMS is not an EMS or a BEMS but in the connected BMS energy is key

EMS and BEMS are also often used interchangeably but they are not the same. While there is a difference between BMS and (B)EMS this confusion is understandable given the evolutions in building management systems and the roots of building management systems.

As Martin Feder, who has been active in building management for over 3 decades and is responsible for the BMS certification badge of the EcoXpert partner program of Schneider Electric, reminds us in an interview on building management evolutions and drivers in the age of IP and IoT, in the really early days of building management the systems were called building energy management systems, so BEMS. However, as the building management market evolved, the ‘E’ of energy was dropped.

Yet, energy is now more important in building management again. That’s exactly part of the scope of this article in which we look with we look at how the BMS has become the center of building management and of connectivity with systems that include energy and so forth as Martin describes.

In a more recent interview, conducted end 2019, on building systems integration, Martin and Jeff Groat from US-based building automation integrator Wadsworth Solutions point out that in a fast-evolving landscape the role of BMS and integrators becomes even more important as we’re at an inflection point.

However, in the meantime the term BEMS has not just been the subject for many opinion pieces on the difference between BEMS/EMS and BMS but is also approached as a separate market and does come with different platforms and forecasts. To make things more confusing, instead of BEMS many also use the term EMS or Energy Management Systems, again distinguishing it from BMS.

The Buiding Energy Management Systems market is poised to reach exceed $13 Billion by 2026 (global revenue for 2017 was $4.0 billion) in the article mentioned below   on BEMS that also covers the difference between Building Energy Management Systems and Building Management Systems from Navigant Research.

And what about power management? Quoting EcoXpert power management systems and advanced metering expert Kevin Morin from our interview on critical power buildings and power management in the connected age of IoT on what the BMS is about now: “Building management systems have the control of temperature/HVAC, primarily for comfort of occupants. Power management systems not only track energy performance of the BMS, they should also provide important insights into power distribution parameters throughout the building in both real-time and as a trend over time”.

The building management system and the intelligent building management system

A BMS is often defined as a control system, consisting of software, hardware and quite obviously communication protocols to control and monitor a vast range of building systems and controls.

Originally the number of building systems was quite limited and somewhere around the eighties integration started and the BMS became an integrated BMS for integrated or intelligent building management. In many definitions of a BMS you will find that it’s not just an – obviously computerized – control system but an integrated control (and monitoring) system and you’ll encounter another acronym as well: iBMS or IBMS standing for, you can pick intelligent or integrated BMS.

The concept and view of the intelligent building and intelligent building management really has to do with the convergence and integration of information technology (IT) and the increasing usage of analytics and actionable data as enabled by IP and more IT-oriented systems and information-intensive applications and technologies within the BMS space several years ago. Integrated building management is overlapping but de facto is more used in a context of building management whereby building functions are integrated at the start.

In an age where the BMS is the center of connectivity in the building that will increasingly dominated by new connectivity technologies, IoT and intelligence gathered through more data and information sources ( IoT and sensors are one thing, leveraging the intelligence another and more about intelligent buildings) these differences will only matter in the jargon of whomever needs it.

Intelligent buildings and smart buildings

When we talk about analytics, actionable intelligence, the Internet of things and artificial intelligence, which increasingly plays a role in the overall building and in IoT and big data as such, another term that inevitably pops up is the smart building.

As building management and the BMS evolve and change with the advent of IoT, AI and predictive analytics, and as the evolutions with regards to buildings are universal, discussions about differences between intelligent or smart buildings will soon be archaic or purely academic

Smart is the term that seems to be loved by anyone active in IoT and analytics and other technologies in convergence and context: from smart buildings and smart offices to the smart home , smart cities and even smart hair dryer (which is not a joke but you can ponder why you would need one).

The difference between an intelligent building and a smart building today? Mainly age. We’ve been using the term intelligent buildings for a long time, smart buildings are more recent in our jargon. Some point to differences between both, among others with regards to the building controls and the presence (or not) of artificial intelligence, predictive analytics and more. Trust us, soon enough it will all just be intelligent building management or simply building management as the market evolves (fast) and integrated building automation case studies demonstrate the benefits without a focus on the jargon.

According to an update on global IoT investments until 2021, IDC forecasted investments of $40 billion for smart building technologies (whereby the research company sees smart building as a cross-industry IoT use case which makes the link between smart and IoT clear, even if IoT is simply also transforming BMS) for the current year (2017).

According to Navigant Research, the IoT market for intelligent buildings will exceed $22Bn in 2026. The drivers are obviously pretty similar to those in other building managament and building automation evolutions we cover below and with the findings of the industry experts mentioned in this overview.

Building management systems: the center of the nervous system and brain of buildings

Whereas building management and BMS systems mainly used to look at the automation of building elements in the field of HVAC equipment, over the years they began to include lighting control, access control and so forth.

As the IT world entered the BMS space, the design of buildings became very much around network connectivity, yet as we’ll see that is changing.

Martin Feder puts it this way: “since more or less 2012 there is an increasing realization that the Building Management System is now actually the hub whereas before you could argue that it was the IT system that defined the criteria for the design of the building. Now, with among others the importance of energy, green building, the standards, the legislation and the many changes it’s become the BMS”.

And with the growing importance of energy, not in the least because of regulations, demand for eco-friendly buildings, and the role of energy, BMS systems in a way also moved back to their roots – as that’s what they originally were about, albeit a very long time ago. They arent’ about power management but increasingly connect with various systems, including energy. Martin describes how the BMS is taking center stage again as the hub of connectivity with other building systems.

Martin Feder: “The BMS has become the integration center of connectivity to other systems, including less obvious ones. It’s the integration center of connectivity to power, lighting, energy, lifts, and far more. You can even think about specfic systems in specific types of buildings such as acoustic systems in hospitals”.

Coming from a situation of proprietary standards, followed by rather slow technologies such as OPC ( Open Protocol Connectivity),  going hand in hand with developments on the level of networking technologies and IT as well as evolutions in building technologies, we can now speak about a genuine transformation in building management on various levels: the technologies, the disruptions in the market, the changes in customer expectations, the business models and the role of the BMS.

Integrated and intelligent building management, leveraging new technologies, protocols and intelligent solutions is the name of the game in which the building management system is the center of the building’s nervous system and brain in which the IoT, data analytics, cloud and soon AI and cognitive systems will play an increasing role as control devices in rooms and spaces move to the IP level as Martin Feder puts it in the previously mentioned interview on building management and IoT. Where is the IoT? Pretty much everywhere and soon at the edge and in intelligent autonomous decisions with the BMS as a visualization hub as well.

The factors driving the Building Management System to be the integrated center of connectivity in building management

The advent of IP about a decade ago and, more or less recently, the rise of the IoT (and cloud, big data analytics and other third platform technology realities) , had and will continue to have a tremendous impact on the evolutions in building management and BMS as mentioned.

With the evolutions in IoT, artificial intelligence and cognitive, analytics at the edge (edge computing, fog computing) and more, the face of building management continues to evolve and the BMS increasingly takes center stage in the bigger building picture, beyond the traditional scope of BMS and in its connecting with several other systems and building-related areas.

The growing integration of IoT with building automation systems is driving the growth of the BMS market based on software

In the interview about building management systems and IoT, Martin Feder explained how IP and IoT are leading the market towards an integrated approach whereby the BMS is becoming the digital hub of buildings.

With changing expectations from building owners, the regulatory challenges which Martin mentioned (with the example of the – new – Energy Performance and Building Directive or EPBD and Switzerland’s energy consumption taxation model) and the increasing focus on ecology with more attention for building certifications such as LEED, building management professionals are pushed to this integrated approach whereby the BMS has become the integration center of connectivity to other systems in all possible areas within the scope of the building (such as lighting, energy, lifts, you name it) .

This is even more the case if we look at the distribution of intelligent technologies at the edge whereby the BMS becomes far more important. And it also forces building management professionals to look at the building overall, instead of only the BMS part as traditionally was the case.

It is exactly what is happening and what is taught in the BMS partner certification program of EcoXpert .

Intelligent technologies and hyper-connectivity: the distribution of intelligence and centralizing role of the BMS

The movement to IP and to IoT is far from finished. As Martin explained in the interview and as mentioned, there is an evolution towards autonomous decision making at the edge whereby field controllers and even small actuators are moving to the IP and IoT level at the edge.

The keywords here are obviously data and analytics in order to gain an end-to-end view and an increasing automation, autonomous decision making and gathering of insights and intelligence with the BMS as the hub in a far more holistic approach and IoT as a key driver.

So, while there is a decentralization as is typical in IoT with intelligence, analytics and the edge (you can again think fog computing and cognitive indeed) , at the same time there is a centralization within the building management space whereby the BMS is the integration center of connectivity with it all and with several areas that are related to buildings but don’t fall under the traditional scope of building management as it used to be.

Evolutions in building management and building automation communications protocols

Traditional building automation communications protocols and standards which have moved to IP and thus enabled Internet connection , such as BACnet (BACnet/IP, BACnet/IPv6), LON (LON/IP) and KNX (KNX IP) have become almost global standards and one could even argue that BACnet/IP is almost the de facto standard Martin says, with many providers nowadays offering IP BACnet controllers.

In the BMS space, IoT will gradually replace traditional communication networks such as BACnet by web services and closely imbricate with Internet oriented languages for software customization (Jean Commeignes)

IP has been and still is a true game-changer in the building management and BMS market. What the future will bring for these building automation protocols is another question. In an interview on the role of IoT in light and room control (L&RC), Jean Commeignes, who is responsible for the L&RC partner certification and badge in the EcoXpert partner program, stated that he believes that in building management IoT gradually will replace the more traditional communication networks, including BACnet, by webservices.

Towards an even more integrated Building Management System

The move towards integration in buildings and building projects as such isn’t new. For a variety of reasons integrated building management systems, also called intelligent building management systems have become a standard.

Yet, in the current hyper-connected reality the move towards integration and mainly interconnectedness takes on a new dimension which is driven by the changes caused by the drivers which Kevin mentions and the various technologies whereby the Internet of Things and the possibility to gather ever more insights in a better, smarter, faster and cheaper way, joins the several reasons and causes of this evolution.

Moreover and as stated, it’s not just about the Building Management System as a digital hub alone, it’s also about having a far more holistic view at the building across all its aspects. We briefly touched upon some drivers above. Let’s take a more in-depth look and also tackle some research.

Drivers of the ongoing integrated/intelligent BMS approach

Among the more traditional drivers which have led to a more integrated building management approach and building managemen system view are:.

Cost benefits, simplified building operations/maintenance, increasing demand for energy-efficient and eco-friendly buildings, and growing integration of IoT drive the BMS market

• The role IT started to play and most of all the mentioned advent of IP.
• The increasing maturity and interaction possibilities on the level of open protocols such as the ones mentioned.
• The sheer possibility to add intelligence and higher degrees of automation across several aspects of the operation of the building.
• The need to reduce costs by having a more holistic view, hand in hand with the value of the building (with peer pressure being an element in larger companies) .
• The growing awareness with regards to ecology and need to cut on carbon emissions and so forth, among others driven by regulations such as the mentioned EPBD. According to Navigant Research (October 2017) the market of energy efficient technologies in Europe alone is worth $83.5 billion.
• Regulations as such , beyond the aspect of ecology and with strong differences per country and also a focus ongreen building certifications such as LEED (and the value they add to the building) .
• A growing focus on that overall value of a building whereby integration, technologies, ecology and a changing building market all play a role.

Drivers of the Building Management System in the age of IoT and digital transformation

While many of these drivers still remain important (reducing utility costs in the building, more efficient management, intelligence, building value and, most important of all nowadays, regulations) the possibilities enabled by iot, cognitive and so forth are added to more drivers such as:.

• Strongly increased expectations from both building owners and occupants . The impact of technologies such as cloud, big data analytics, mobile, new digital experiences/services and so forth have impacted all of us, regardless of our “role”. Describing all these changed expectations really would take an article on its own. We tackled some of building owners but also think about how the expectations of building occupants (and of regulators) impact those of building owners, which has the typical cascade effect of digital transformation: small and medium building owners want to save costs, meet regulation, be more efficient and enhance comfort of their customers, companies moving into large buildings have their expectations and are impacted by the expectations of their management and even workers, guests of hotels expect higher levels of comfort and control, the list is endless.
• The rise of IoT and the perfect storm of a convergence of new technologies enabling digital transformation and innovation drive the evolutions in BMS as well, how else could it be? These technologies don’t just make more intelligence possible, all the way to the edge of the building, they are replacing many standards and technologies as we know them now. Data analytics and decisions based on this data become autonomous on the field control level but in the end you always need that central hub.
• The decreasing costs of technology and of smart devices is a direct driver but also an indirect one as it has boosted the uptake of IoT and related technologies, within the building management space and far beyond. In industrial markets and critical power buildings where these technologies are increasingly embraced for myriad reasons, the building management aspects (e.g. factories and Industry 4.0 ) inevitably will fit in the broader picture of IoT and digital transformation.
• The increasing attention for smart cities as populations continue to rise and smart city visions are increasingly turned into action. According to September 2017 research by Navigant Research, smart buildings (which obviously need smart building management systems and are pivotal to make smart cities happen) in smart cities investments are expected to exceed $10 Billion by 2026. If we know that, as the press release states, buildings are responsible for around 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and 70 percent of energy consumption and look at earlier mentioned drivers the picture becomes clear.
• The attitudes of facility managers with regards to connected services. A survey among facility managers, conducted by Morar Consulting for Schneider Electric and unveiled in June 2017, found that 44 percent of facility management professionals expect investments in connected services overall to increase in 2017 whereby mainly managers of large buildings, the natural BMS market, see the benefits in connecting their systems to the Internet in ensuring smart, productive and profitable operations and to deliver better value and maximize energy. 70 percent of responding facility managers predicted that digitization and IoT would impact their building and maintenance policies within the next year.

The list goes on but there is little doubt to where it is all heading, which matters most in the end. Just as in the healthcare industry we see the role of EHR systems changing with big data, artificial intelligence and the IoT being integrated with it, the increasing usage and possibilities of the same technologies and, most of all their benefits and next level impact in building management, energy management, lighting and room control, etc. are making the BMS more than ever the digital hub of the changing building management reality.

Analysis, research and expectations regarding the evolutions and drivers of inteligent and integrated building management

The Internet of Things, cloud computing, (big) data analytics (BDA), fog computing and artificial intelligence further accelerate the evolutions in building management, always with the BMS as that mentioned hub and IoT indeed as a true building management game-changer as well.

Ample BMS market research shows that IoT and other technologies are among the key drivers of the industry and of BMS investments, obviously always within the context of all the other evolutions and drivers as we mentioned them and explore them more below.

IoT, self-governance and analytics at the service of BMS evolutions and demands

The convergence and integration of IT and OT, along with changing demands, is putting the BMS more central again (Martin Feder)

According to a July 2017 report on the BMS market evolutions between 2017 and 2023 for instance , the press release cited the growing integration of IoT as one of the major factors driving the market (poised to grow from USD 6.65 billion in 2016 to 19.25 billion by 2023 with an impressive compound annual growth rate of 16.71% between 2017 and 2023 according to this specfic research) , along with important cost benefits, simplified building operations and maintenance, and of course growing demand for energy efficient and eco-friendly buildings, as known largely inspired by regulations but also by peer pressure and other factors as Martin pointed out.

The mentioned report also expects smart devices for building management purposes will become more self-governing and intelligent in terms of sharing data with building automation systems and the cloud. That intelligence won’t just happen in the scope of IoT, cloud and data sharing . It’s here in the scope of analytics and of cognitive as well. Convergence.

The leading and increasing place of connected buildings in IoT endpoints for data collection and analysis

The role of the Building Management System as the digital center of connectivity is not just strongly related with the increasing importance of data analytics and actionable data as such but also with the increasing data collection from equipment, devices and connected end points overall ( both phenomena of course being intertwined) .

As mentioned in an article on smart buildings, 451 Research found that data collection from buildings and other structures (including HVAC and so forth) ranked fifth in the list of equipment, devices or connected end points where data collection happens most.

It is preceded by respectively 1) datacenter IT equipment, 2) cameras and surveillance equipment, 3) datacenter facilities equipment and 4) smart phones and end user devices. You probably just read our thoughts: these are indeed all candidates for connection with the BMS or components which play a role in it. There are ample other categories where one might expect this, including environmental sensors, industry specific endpoints and more, further adding to the list of connected systems Martin Feder mentioned as depicted above.

It’s clear that, with smart buildings as a fast growing use case as mentioned earlier, IoT usage will become ever more important in a scope of building management, especially as connected buildings already are among the lead in IoT endpoints . To quote from the 451 Research press release, “Datacenter Equipment, Cameras and Surveillance, Smartphones, and Connected Buildings Lead IoT Endpoints”. Knowing that, as Martin also said, the field level is moving to IP and IoT and we are also moving to autonomous decision makers on the smallest levels of the overall building (actuators, sensors and so forth in a single building space or specific building system) it is equally clear that data collection at the connected building level (and, more importantly how it is used) will dramatically increase.

The integrated BMS market: evolutions and top integrated building management system vendors

There are dozens of vendors of integrated building management systems. Some vendors also has various solutions, depending on the type of building.

In January 2017 Technavio looked at  the global integrated building management systems (iBMS) market with forecasts until 2021. The report also contains a list of 67 integrated building management system vendors that will play and impactful role in the overall market during the forecast period according to the research firm. Yet, let’s first take a look at the market predictions and drivers according to the company.

Integrated building management systems: segments and regions

The company expects the global iBMS market to reach a total value of $22.51 billion (in 2016 the market was worth $12.50 billion) . The market value data are higher than those in previously mentioned building management system data. Yet, as per usual all depends on what is included and more.

Several start-up companies offering building integration software are venturing into the Integrated Building Management Systems market (Technavio)

The Technavio report looks at the overall integrated building management systems market, so not just the building management system software. As the graphic from the press release below indicates, the global iBMS hardware market is expected to reach $10.72 billion by 2021. The remaining part of the total $22.51 billion market in 2021 is for services and software, bringing us far closer to the previously mentioned research that looks at BMS software or Building Automation Systems alone. Also Technavio – how else could it be – points to drivers such as cost and energy savings and increasing awareness with regards to the benefits of effectively managing building facilities. Other factors include the flexibility which is provided by open iBMS solutions, enhanced productivity, enhanced security and higher ROI.

According to the graphic commercial and residential buildings account for 37 percent of the market and the EMEA region will dominate the global iBMS market. In 2016 that EMEA market was valued at $4.78 billion, more than a third of the global market.

The main drivers why the EMEA region will be the major iBMS revenue contributor:

• Growing awareness among end-users  for optimizing their building automation systems and enhancing ease of operations.
• Growing demand in the MEA part of the EMEA region with increasing demand from African countries such as Algeria, Nigeria, and South Africa and Middle Eastern countries such as the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

However, the company also expects the APAC region to contribute the maximum revenue in terms of new business for integrated building management system vendors in a landscape where globally strategic acquisitions are to be expected whereby the large integrated building management system players seek regional partners who can help them in strengthening their local presences.

The major integrated BMS vendors and building management system solutions

Both the report from Technavio on integrated building management systems and the previously mentioned report on the evolutions of the BMS market sum up the top vendors in the market.

According to Research and Markets the key vendors in the building management system market are Honeywell, Siemens, Johnson Controls, Schneider Electric, United Technologies, IBM, Ingersoll-Rand and Delta Controls.

Technavio went a step further and made a list the top five vendors in the worldwide iBMS market with some explanations per vendor.

That top 5 is composed of Cisco, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, Schneider Electric and United Technologies. More in the list of intelligent building management systems and iBMS vendors below which starts with the 5 top vendors in the integrated building management systems solutions space and contains some more vendors of intelligent and integrated building systems (and links to their building systems) of prominent vendors, according to Technavio.

Ranked per region, Technavio has added iBMS vendors (on top of the 5 mentioned ones) such as:

• For the Americas : Advantech, Bosch, Building IQ, Building Logix, Control4, Convergentz, Delta Controls, Emerson Electric, Phoenix Energy Technologies, and Siemens
• For the APAC region : 3S Technologies and Automation, AllGreen Ecotech, Azbil Corporation, Bajaj Electricals, Cylon, Jardine Engineering Corporation, MS Group, NEC, Oberix, and United Technologies
• For the EMEA region : Advanced Control Solutions, Alerton, AMB, Armiti Trading, Atrina, Avanceon, Building Maintenance Services, Demont Engineering, Eagle Technology, and Giza Systems

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What's the best example of building system integration and its benefits.

Clint Bradford

Anyone who understands IT knows how valuable centralized networks can be. They allow for greater control over systems and help both systems and people collaborate better, opening up new possibilities never before realized. 

Many businesses have quickly understood the benefits of integration and evolved accordingly, embracing cloud computing, automation, and virtualization. Though the commercial property industry has generally lagged behind other sectors in adopting these technologies, building owners are now increasingly seeing the value of integration as well. 

But what is system integration? What are the best examples? Taking a deeper look at this innovative approach will show you how integration can help you protect your assets and streamline your operations. 

What Is System Integration? An Example

When it comes to dealing with buildings, what is system integration? With examples from industries that already made the leap years ago, building owners have plenty of system integration case studies to look at. But in the end, the key to integrating a building’s systems involves simply getting them to work together. Successful execution is typically performed by a master systems integrator (MSI). 

IT ecosystems often include a hodgepodge of legacy infrastructure, software formats, and Internet protocols mixed in with cutting-edge technology. Automated building systems are no different. In a smart building —as in any other environment using a centralized IT system—an MSI seeks to integrate hardware and software seamlessly, connecting legacy infrastructure with modern additions like sensors, analytics software, and other smart technologies that make automated buildings run more smoothly. While the various building subsystems can work just fine without integration, they will not work or communicate as efficiently and seamlessly, and opportunities for more sophisticated automation, improved performance, and increased efficiency may be missed. 

An MSI needs to not just understand buildings, but the entire construction or retrofitting process, as well as the IT aspects of creating an intelligent and integrated building . While hiring an MSI with deep domain expertise at any stage can be beneficial, getting them involved from the start is the best way to get the most out of your partnership. 

A Case Study

Let’s take a look at an example of how system integration happens with an MSI. 

A Fortune 500 corporation wants to retrofit its 400,000 square-foot headquarters to include smart and green technologies . The project involves keeping the shell of the building, which was built new in the mid-1990s, with some new construction. They want to:

• Keep much of the existing HVAC and lighting systems, which are less than five years old, but install sensors to make them greener, and incorporate smart sensors and meters for the building’s new components. 
• Reduce energy consumption.
• Reduce water consumption.
• Improve the comfort and health of building occupants. 

Hiring an MSI

The building owner understands that introducing an MSI from the very start will greatly benefit the project . With an MSI joining the team at the beginning of the design process, they can offer valuable insight and guide decision-making on an ongoing basis to ensure the final result will fulfill the project goals in the best way possible. 

Designs for the retrofit included linking smart water meters and new sensors for the lighting, security, and HVAC systems to the building management system (BMS). The MSI guided equipment selection and ensured the design accounted for this system architecture. The MSI also suggested installing indoor air quality sensors that will later be used to trigger automatic HVAC adjustments that support a healthy environment .

Additionally, the MSI noted a number of challenges that must be addressed for successful integration and ongoing operations. These include:

• Lack of cybersecurity protection in current system.
• Current system uses proprietary protocols.
• Slow network speed and an inability to handle the large volume of data that will be generated by smart devices.

With these insights, the MSI was able to architect a system that seamlessly unified all building systems, devices, and sensors using open protocols and API connections. For more robust security and scalability, a hybrid cloud to on-premises connectivity model was designed, with the MSI overseeing migration and ensuring best security practices were followed throughout the project. Network speed was also improved. 

Once the new system was installed, they used advanced analytics to identify areas of potential energy and water waste and make meaningful recommendations to optimize efficiency without sacrificing occupant comfort. This included sophisticated automation strategies based on sensor data and predictive analytics, such as adjusting temperatures, lighting, and ventilation in individual areas based on real-time and predicted occupancy. 

The MSI also provided training to ensure stakeholders understood and could use the new system to its full potential as well as ongoing support after completion of the project.

Choosing Buildings IOT for System Integration

Choosing Buildings IOT as your MSI partner for system integration can help you transform your building in the smartest and most efficient way possible. 

Buildings IOT’s industry-leading MSI:

• Provides all-under-one-roof services.
• Offers cutting-edge software like IOT Jetstream for data flow integration and onPoint for analytics and control.
• Can develop custom software solutions to meet your needs.
• Knows how buildings operate and understands the technologies and protocols needed to ensure optimal performance. 
• Specializes in open protocols and state-of-the-art API connectivity.
• Experienced at extracting and sharing data from silo systems to streamline operations. 
• Deep expertise in cloud integration.
• Maintains relationships throughout the project and afterwards as a long-term partner. 

With Buildings IOT, you can create a truly smart building that gives you a new level of control, opens up opportunities for more advanced automation, and offers greater efficiency and comfort than ever before.

Buildings IOT offers the services and technologies you need for seamless system integration. Contact our expert team to learn more.

Clint Bradford writes about problems encountered and solutions delivered during our smart building project process.

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In theory, building automation and management systems (BAMSs) can provide all the components and functionalities required for analyzing and operating buildings. However, in reality, these systems can only ensure the control of heating ventilation and air conditioning system systems. Therefore, many other tasks are left to the operator, e.g. evaluating buildings’ performance, detecting abnormal energy consumption, identifying the changes needed to improve efficiency, ensuring the security and privacy of end-users, etc. To that end, there has been a movement for developing artificial intelligence (AI) big data analytic tools as they offer various new and tailor-made solutions that are incredibly appropriate for practical buildings’ management. Typically, they can help the operator in (i) analyzing the tons of connected equipment data; and; (ii) making intelligent, efficient, and on-time decisions to improve the buildings’ performance. This paper presents a comprehensive systematic survey on using AI-big data analytics in BAMSs. It covers various AI-based tasks, e.g. load forecasting, water management, indoor environmental quality monitoring, occupancy detection, etc. The first part of this paper adopts a well-designed taxonomy to overview existing frameworks. A comprehensive review is conducted about different aspects, including the learning process, building environment, computing platforms, and application scenario. Moving on, a critical discussion is performed to identify current challenges. The second part aims at providing the reader with insights into the real-world application of AI-big data analytics. Thus, three case studies that demonstrate the use of AI-big data analytics in BAMSs are presented, focusing on energy anomaly detection in residential and office buildings and energy and performance optimization in sports facilities. Lastly, future directions and valuable recommendations are identified to improve the performance and reliability of BAMSs in intelligent buildings.

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1 Introduction

1.1 preliminary.

Building automation and management systems (BAMSs) are intelligent systems of both hardware and software, connecting heating ventilation and air conditioning system (HVAC) systems, lighting, security, and other systems to communicate on a single platform. That said, BAMSs deliver crucial information to operators and/or users on the operational performance of buildings, which aim at promoting energy efficiency and optimizing water consumption, enhancing the safety and comfort of the occupants, reducing maintenance costs, extending the life cycle of the utilities, etc (Ippolito et al. 2014 ). This is possible by networking a plethora of sensors and components responsible for the monitoring and operation of mechanical, security, fire, lighting, HVAC and humidity control and ventilation systems (Su and Wang 2020 ).

With the broad utilization of information and communication technologies (ICTs), sensing and measurement technologies along with the cloud computing, big data storage and data analytics, conventional BAMSs are being revolutionized. Vast quantities of building automation and management data are produced, gathered and saved (Sardianos et al. 2020 ; Himeur et al.). This has offered an excellent opportunity for implementing big data mining and analysis in BAMSs. In this context, as the quantity of data collected in BAMSs is enormous, the ”big data” phenomena is surfacing this field and revolutionizing the way we manage data by using AI-big data analytics tools (Quinn et al. 2020 , Himeur et al.). Accordingly, with advanced sensing and metering technologies in BAMSs, data split into multiple modalities and many variables can create a comprehensive source of information to analyze. This allows for more targeted analysis, but also means that more powerful, intelligent, and sophisticated tools are needed to identify the most enormous patterns/variables (Muntean et al. 2021 ). As a consequence, the big data analytics market in the building energy sector is expected to grow at a Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.28%, during the forecast period, 2021–2026. Footnote 1 Data collection in the building industry is becoming all-embracing. This wealth of big data allows informed data-driven decision-making by designers, facilities managers, and owners during building design, operation, and retrofit (Berger et al.). On the other hand, for existing or outdated buildings to make full use of the services offered by the flourishing data analytics market, the necessary enhancement to the existing system for deploying the new technology must be addressed and sorted out (Varlamis et al. 2022 ). The main challenges of gathering and analyzing data of old buildings are the outdated technologies and the conventional error-prone data collection means (Jia et al. 2019 ; Al Dakheel et al. 2020 ). Nevertheless, data analytics can assist in designing and implementing the new system adaptation and existing system renovation (Elnour et al. 2022 ).

Besides, it is of utmost importance to know the current state of AI-based building automation before presenting the actual study concerning user input, demand, response, energy-saving, and automation. In this respect, it is obvious that AI adds new dimensions to building automation environments by enabling autonomous data analysis for operation optimization. Therefore, many AI-based contributions have recently emerged as key solutions for (i) predicting building occupancy, (ii) forecasting thermal comfort, (iii) boosting energy saving, and (iv) enabling demand-side response (Himeur et al. 2020 ). Additionally, as mentioned in previous studies, (O’Grady et al. 2021 ) people can spend up to 90 percent of their lives in buildings; this highlights the importance of user input, behavioral data, and behavioral analytics for optimizing and automating building operations. To that end, a significant research effort is ongoing to develop AI-based behavioral change technologies to promote energy saving in residential and office buildings (Sayed et al., Varlamis et al. 2022 ), understand consumers demand patterns for successful demand response development (Cruz et al. 2021 ; Pratt and Erickson 2020 ), optimizing occupants’ thermal comfort (Zheng et al. 2022 ), transforming water management (Doorn 2021 ), improving fault detection and diagnosis (Yun et al. 2021 ), etc. Moreover, AI-based big data analytics are contributing to building automation by making BAMSs self-learning, self-configuring and self-diagnosing, and self-commissioning (Katipamula 2019 ). Additionally, using AI-based analytics can adapt existing building systems to promote the deployment of BAMSs with fewer investments from building owners.

From another hand, as AI models are very competent to learn common human error patterns, their use in big data analytics is significant. They can (i) detect and resolve possible flaws in datasets, (ii) learn by watching how the operators and users interact with the analytics programs, and identify anomalies and surface unexpected insights from large-scale datasets fast (Mahmud et al. 2020 ; Diamantoulakis et al. 2015 ). In this context, AI models assist operators and users of BAMSs to perform the different tasks related to the big data cycle, among them the operations of collecting, pre-processing, aggregating, storing, analyzing and extracting various kinds of features (Hu and Vasilakos 2016 ; Bode et al. 2019 ). Moving on, the integration of AI-big data analytics can (i) optimize energy and operational efficiency, (ii) automate monitoring and control through wireless platforms, (iii) provide quick and better decision making, (iv) smartly control the facility and reduce risk failures, (v) lower life cycle costs, and (vi) increase safety and security measures with ease (Aghemo et al. 2014 ; Zhou and Yang 2016 ; Aste et al. 2017 ).

1.2 Paper contributions

Due to the importance of using AI-big data analytics in BAMSs, a plethora of works have been proposed to (i) address different challenges, (ii) improve and automate building operation, and (iii) optimize building user experience. In addition, different reviews have been introduced to discuss the advances made in this research topic, such as (Zhang et al. 2021 ; Molina-Solana et al. 2017 ; Zhao et al. 2020 ). However, most of them have only focused on addressing one task at a time, e.g., energy management, rather than covering multiple BAMS tasks together (e.g., water management, occupancy detection, comfort optimization, fault diagnosis and anomaly detection (FDAD), etc.) (Sun et al. 2020 ; Wang et al. 2021 ; Fan et al. 2018 ). To that end, we present in this paper a comprehensive systematic survey reflecting the latest developments in the field of AI-big data analytics and their utilization in BAMSs from different perspectives. For example, Zhang et al. ( 2021 ) discuss sensor impact verification and evaluation for FDAD in energy systems, while Molina et al. ( 2017 ) review the contributions of data science for building energy management issues. Moving on, data mining strategies used for building energy management are overviewed in Zhao et al. ( 2020 ). Similarly, in Sun et al. ( 2020 ), data-driven techniques for energy prediction in buildings are described. Besides, Wang et al. ( 2021 ) focus on studying the practical problems related to implementing ML models for building energy efficiency. It also investigates the commitment of existing studies to comfort and energy saving (i.e., Save energy with/without compromising thermal comfort). Moreover, in Fan et al. ( 2018 ), unsupervised data mining methodologies for energy efficiency improvement are analyzed. Lastly, in Pinto et al. ( 2022 ), Pinto et al. discuss the roles of transfer learning integration for smart buildings and systems.

To that end, we present in this paper a comprehensive survey reflecting the latest developments in the field of AI-big data analytics and their utilization in BAMSs from different perspectives. Thus, we first introduce a generic taxonomy for classifying AI-big data analytics frameworks based on various criteria, including the learning method, building environment, computing platform, and application or challenge addressed. Typically, an overview of existing works and discussions is presented, highlighting some of the challenges, limitations, and shortcomings. Then, three case studies are presented illustrating the use of AI-big data analytics for critical concerns in the buildings sector, that is, energy efficiency and management, to provide the reader with insight into real-world applications. The optimization of energy consumption in buildings has been a hot research topic recently Footnote 2 in terms of efficient planning, proper management, and preventive maintenance. Lastly, future directions to ease the use of AI-big data analytics models in BAMSs and improve their feedback are derived. To summarize, the contributions of the presented work are manifold:

Providing a thorough review covering the general use of AI-big big data analytics in BAMSs and shedding light on their increasing importance for developing efficient and smart BAMSs.

Presenting a well-designed taxonomy of existing AI-big data analytics frameworks, which helps in understanding intriguing relationships between various concepts and variables in the field. Different criteria have been adopted when analyzing existing frameworks, including the learning method, building environment, computing platform, application, etc.

Conducting a critical analysis and discussion to (i) extract diverse relevant lessons that are learned from overviewed works; and (ii) highlight open issues and current challenges, among them data scarcity, data benchmarking, security and privacy, scalability and interoperability and real-time big data intelligence.

Presenting three case studies that describe the use of AI-big data analytics in BAMSs for buildings energy management and optimization, such that the first two case studies demonstrate unsupervised and supervised energy anomaly detection strategies in residential and office buildings, and the third one is about energy and performance optimization in sports facilities.

Deriving a set of future research and development directions that attract considerable interest in the near and far future, and help in improving the performance and reliability of BAMSs.

Table  1 outlines some of the main differences between the actual review and other survey studies. It also sheds light on some of the main contributions addressed by this review compared to the others in terms of overviewed resources (i.e., ML tools and computing platforms), application scenarios, discussed challenges (i.e., security issues), evaluation metrics, case studies, and proposed future directions (i.e., multimodal data analysis, in-situ sensor calibration in BAMSs, smart building digital twins, blockchain edge analytics, etc.).

1.3 Review methodology

A well-established review methodology is adopted in this paper, where we first conduct a comprehensive literature search in the most popular scientific databases, including Scopus, Elsevier, Wiley, and IEEE. Following, most of the works that deal with the use of AI-big data analytics for BAMSs are included in this study. Many keywords and their combination are then used in the search, e.g., ”building automation and management systems”, ”big data analytics”, ”artificial intelligence”, ”machine learning”, ”deep learning”, ”transfer learning”, ”energy prediction in buildings using machine learning”, ”thermal comfort in building using machine learning”, ”fault diagnosis and anomaly detection in buildings”, ”security in building automation and management systems”, etc. Therefore, research studies introduced between January 2015 and February 2022 are discussed in this framework. This period has arbitrarily been selected to evaluate the recent and pertinent contributions. Typically, this framework discusses English-written peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings papers, and book chapters. The selection process adopted in this review relies on adhering to the specifications of the PRISMA (Moher et al. 2009 ), which is a practical and efficient approach for writing survey studies. Concretely, a search was performed for the last seven years (January 2015–February 2022). To eliminate duplicate references, a reference manager software was utilized, and only the remaining frameworks have then been considered after filtering them by their titles, keywords, and abstracts.

In addition to reviewing existing AI-big data analytics contributions for BAMSs, three case studies are also included in this article to provide the reader with more explanations about using AI tools in tackling the buildings’ energy consumption question in terms of (i) unsupervised energy anomaly detection, (ii) supervised energy anomaly detection, and (iii) energy and performance optimization for sports facilities.

1.4 Organization of the paper

The rest of this paper is structured as follows. Section  2 highlights the significant advances made in the development of BAMSs. Section  3 provides an overview of the interdisciplinary AI-big data analytics research in BAMSs following a well-defined taxonomy. Section  4 evaluates and critically analyses overviewed frameworks to identify the open issues and current challenges. Section  5 presents three case studies that describe the use of AI-big data analytics in BAMSs for energy anomaly detection in residential and office buildings, and energy optimization in sports facilities. Moving on, Sect.  6 presents the future directions for improving the performance of BAMSs. Finally, conclusions and significant findings are summarized in Sect.  7 .

2 Evolution of BAMSs

In the last decades, BAMSs have been rapidly developed; indeed, from the 1950s to 1990s, they have been transformed from pneumatics to electronics then open protocols (e.g. BACnets). Moving forward, with the digitization era, BAMSs have further progressed by (i) integrating more powerful and smart technologies, (ii) becoming easier to implement in different kinds of buildings, and (iii) using high-quality softwares to aid the users in getting the most pertinent information from their buildings. Indeed, digitization has significantly accelerated with the launch of smartphones, where these devices have abruptly replaced mobile communicators, cell phones, etc. and become more practical in many real-world applications as they deliver different benefits, such as supporting apps.

2.1 Progress made during the two last decades

We briefly described in this section the most significant achievements made in the development of BAMSs during the last two decades, which can be summarized as portrayed in Fig. 1 . Typically, in 2008, it became possible to virtualize BAMSs in data centers, and hence receives greater security and availability and enables more flexible access to buildings’ data. In 2009, WiFi was integrated to BAMSs to help in flexibly and remotely monitoring appliances in households and commercial centers (Wang 2009 ). Following, in 2010, due to the growing utilization of smartphones and tablet computers in smart city applications to control smart and location-based products, BAMSs have been also positively influenced through developing more sophisticated and portable BAMSs solutions (Aste et al. 2017 ).

The significant progress made in the development of BAMSs during the last two decades

By 2014, audio files had been deployed in BAMSs using the text-to-speech (TTS) technology. The latter enabled to support preventive inspections and maintenance, work contracts, service requests, work contracts, equipment audits, etc (Mundt et al. 2014 ). In 2016, IoT began to significantly influence the society after that IoT devices found their way into the building management sector, where six billion devices were installed and more than 31 billion were expected in 2020 (Aste et al. 2017 ). Explicitly, the importance of automation has been increased in both existing and new buildings. Following, in 2018, commercial buildings have progressively evolved into smart buildings and routines have been improved and/or automated in BAMSs, resulting in enhanced comfort and efficiency (Markoska and Lazarova-Molnar 2018 ; Lee and Karava 2020 ). Lastly, in 2020, AI joined the spectrum of BAMSs to help in early fire detection, and energy demand prediction. Moreover, it becomes possible to identify behavioral change through the analysis of real-time data. Thus, BAMSs learn from experiences and historical data for automatically adjusting the indoor conditions (Yaïci et al. 2021 ).

2.2 Big data sources

This section discusses and describes the essential sources of heterogeneous big data used to implement AI-big data analytics in BAMSs. Indeed, developing and accelerating the advance and deployment of BAMSs require the installation of a large number of smart sensors, smart meters, and other measurement devices in the different parts of each building, which helps in (i) increasing the observability of its transient and dynamic events, and (ii) gather actual data related to the diverse functionalities of the building. This will later help the AI-big data analytics in accurately analyzing this data and extracting pertinent features and therefore facilitating the operation and monitoring of all building technology, especially in larger buildings. Figure 2 portrays the overall architecture of a BAMS and its principal data sources. The control module is the central brain of the BAMS, and most of the controllers are built using the industry standard BACnet protocols in addition to Konnex (KNX); an open communication standard for commercial and domestic building automation, LonWorks; a standardized bus system used in centralized and decentralized building automation control (Merz et al. 2018 ), and Modbus; a network communication protocol for connecting electronic equipment in industrial automation systems. Overall, a BAMS can provide various services to control (i) heating and cooling, (ii) lighting, (iii) security, (iv) access control, (v) fire and life safety, and (vi) elevators and escalators.

Principal services of a BAMS system

3 Overview of AI-big data analytic frameworks

3.1 overall taxonomy.

To understand the challenges related to AI-big data analytics in BAMSs, it is essential to perform a generic taxonomy of existing AI-big data analytics techniques used for monitoring the smart buildings. Specifically, Fig.  3 provides a structured analysis framework that helps in overviewing existing techniques and shedding the light on the organization of the presented framework.

Taxonomy of existing AI-big data analytics frameworks

3.2 AI-learning process

The first step in any AI process is system learning. This can take four primary forms: supervised learning, unsupervised learning, semi-supervised, and reinforcement learning. In this section, we present an overview of existing AI learning architectures used to improve the performance of BAMSs.

3.2.1 Unsupervised learning (U)

Unsupervised learning learns from raw data without prior knowledge and mainly deals with unlabeled datasets. Although it does not need to annotate data as supervised learning, the learning phase can be more computational as all the possibilities are checked. The accuracy is lower since there are no corresponding outputs (labels) (Himeur et al. 2021 ).

3.2.1.1 U1. Clustering

It is a category of ML algorithms used for separating data (e.g. energy consumption observations, ambient conditions, etc.) into different classes or clusters following a specific goal. Clustering algorithms usually pertain to one of the following groups, i.e. hybrid, fuzzy-based, model-based, and density-based approaches. Using the clustering process facilitates the classification tasks when dealing with various problems, such as anomaly detection of energy consumption, indoor environmental quality (IEQ) monitoring and detection of pollutants, detection of abnormal water consumption, etc.

K-means, C-means and fuzzy C-means (FCM) were among the most investigated clustering approaches. They have been applied for non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) and appliance identification (Ji et al. 2019 ; Zhang et al. 2020 ), energy performance evaluation and ranking in working spaces (Sun and Yu 2021 ), energy efficiency assessment in industrial buildings (Liu et al. 2018 ), building management and identification of operating anomalies (when analyzing electricity, gas and water consumption) (Akil et al. 2019 ), IEQ monitoring (Dogruparmak et al. 2014 ; Cao et al. 2020 ; Alghamdi et al. 2020 ; Roger Rozario 2021 ), energy forecasting (Tian et al. 2020 ; Chen et al. 2020 ; El Motaki et al. 2021 ), and data sampling for better visualization (Qin and Zhang 2017 ).

In Culaba et al. ( 2020 ), an energy prediction model is introduced using a k-means model to cluster data, and a support vector machine (SVM) is employed to forecast energy consumption. In Himeur et al. ( 2021 ), three clustering algorithms, namely one-class support vector machine (OCSVM), density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN), and local outlier factor (LOF), are used to detect anomalous energy consumption in households by analyzing energy footprints. Besides, in Afaifia et al. ( 2021 ), hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) is implemented to model residential energy consumption and promote energy efficiency. Clustering-based techniques have been used in BAMSs because of their simplicity and relatively computational efficiency. Also, clustering models generally have few parameters to tune. However, they have different limitations that affect their applications in BAMSs, among them the manual selection of the optimal K , dependency on initial values, troubles to cluster data with varying densities and sizes, the need for scaling as the number of dimensions increases, etc. (Li et al. 2018 ).

3.2.1.2 U2. Dimensionality reduction

In diverse ML tasks, dimensionality reduction techniques can be employed to classify data while promoting low computational costs as they first remove irrelevant observations. Accordingly, a plethora of frameworks have been proposed in the literature to explore the applicability of dimensionality reduction schemes in BAMSs. That includes the principal component analysis (PCA), factor analysis, linear discriminant analysis (LDA), quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA), and multiple discriminant analysis (MDA), isometric feature mapping (Isomap) (Liu et al. 2020 ), kernel principal component analysis (KPCA) (Abba et al. 2020 ), t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) (Zhan et al. 2020 ; Lopes et al. 2020 ), multidimensional scaling (MDS) (Wang 2020 , and truncated singular value decomposition (TSVD) (Kalantzis et al. 2021 ).

For instance, PCA has been utilized for early fault detection and classification (Li and Wen 2014 ; Cotrufo and Zmeureanu 2016 ; Chen and Wen 2017 ; Swiercz and Mroczkowska 2019 ), IEQ (Mansor et al. 2021 ), energy consumption prediction (Sha et al. 2019 ), occupancy detection in buildings (Pal et al. 2019 ), etc. Moving on, LDA has been employed for thermal comfort evaluation (Gładyszewska-Fiedoruk and Sulewska 2020 ), sensor-based occupancy detection (Fayed et al. 2019 ). Using dimensionality reduction in BAMS has gained attention because it can: (i) reduce the storage space and time needed to classify recorded data, (ii) improve the interpretation of the ML models’ parameters by removing multicollinearity, and (iii) simplify data visualization (Al-Kababji et al. 2022 ). However, dimensionality reduction models have some disadvantages. For example, (i) this can result in relevant data loss, (ii) finding linear correlations between variables (as PCA does) can be no appropriate in some scenarios, and (iii) some dimensionality reduction models can fail in classifying variables if the covariance and mean are not sufficient to represent datasets (Himeur et al. 2021 ; Abdulhammed et al. 2019 ).

3.2.2 Supervised learning (S)

Supervised learning is applied for the case of labeled energy datasets. Despite its high performance, the necessity of labeled data causes some difficulties in real-world applications.

3.2.2.1 S1. Classification

It refers to conventional ML models that attempt to derive some conclusions from the input data given in the training process, and hence aim at predicting the class labels/categories for a new set of data. Classification models have widely been deployed in existing BAMS based big data analytics frameworks to perform different tasks, e.g. energy forecasting, energy balancing, IAQ monitoring, energy optimization, fault and anomaly detection. Typically, SVM, K-nearest neighbors (KNN) (Valgaev et al. 2017 ), decision tree (DT) (Yu et al. 2010 ), artificial neural network (ANN) (Moon et al. 2019 ), multi-layer perceptron (MLP) (Haidar et al. 2019 ), extreme learning machine (ELM) (Salerno and Rabbeni 2018 ) and logistic regression (LR) (Rehman et al. 2020 ) are among the famous classification models deployed in BAMSs. Classification models have been used in BAMSs since they are simple to understand, fast and efficient. In addition, they can excel in classifying different kinds of BAMS data if accurately labeled datasets are used in the training process. However, they have a set of limitations. For instance, SVM models are not adequate for non-linear problems, and their performance does not improve if the number of features increases while the number of neighbors ”K” is manually selected in KNN. Moreover, poor results are usually obtained with DT algorithms on small datasets, and overfitting can quickly occur (Himeur et al. 2021 ).

3.2.2.2 S2. Regression

It is based on the identification of the relation between two or more energy consumption observations for producing a set of model parameters, that help in predicting and classifying them for different purposes, including energy prediction, anomaly detection, security and privacy preservation, etc. Diverse regression models have been proposed to analyze BAMSs’ data, e.g. support vector regression (SVR) (Zhong et al. 2019 ), linear regression (LR), auto-regressive (AR) models, regression tree (RT) and regression fitting (RFT). Regression models have gained popularity in smart buildings and smart energy systems because most of them are easy to implement and interpret, and efficient to train. Also, they perform remarkably well for linearly separable data. However, it is worthy to note that regression models involve complicated and lengthy procedures of analysis and calculations in addition to assuming the existence of linearity between the dependent and independent variables, which is not always the case in real-world applications (Bilous et al. 2018 ).

3.2.2.3 S3. Deep neural networks (DNN)

It is a subclass of ML that is principally a NN including more than two layers. These DNNs aim at simulating the behavior of the human brain ”albeit far from matching its ability”, which allows them to learn from large-scale datasets. In addition to the capability of NNs with a single layer for making approximate predictions, DNNs have further benefits via (i) optimizing and refining the classification accuracy when additional hidden layers are considered, and (ii) identifying the most informative features of the data.

DNNs have become the state-of-the-art methods in various ML-based domains, similarly in BAMSs, they are attracting greater attention. They have widely used for energy forecasting, this is the case of recurrent neural networks (RNN), long short-term memory (LSTM) (Gao et al. 2019 ; Wang et al. 2020 ), gated recurrent unit (GRU) (Lin et al. 2021 ), bidirectional LSTM (BiLSTM) (Haq et al. 2021 ; Ishaq and Kwon 2021 ), convolutional LSTM (ConvLSTM) (Syed et al. 2021 ), multiplicative LSTM (mLSTM) (Krause et al.), bidirectional GRU (BiGRU) (Khan et al. 2020 ), coupled input and forget gate (CIFG) (Runge and Zmeureanu), deep feed forward neural networks (DFNN) (Marino et al. 2016 ), and convolutional neural network (CNN) (Li et al. 2017 ). Moreover, numerous hybrid models have been built by combining the aforementioned models with other deep learning (DL) architectures, such as CNN-LSTM (Alhussein et al. 2020 ), CNN-BiLSTM (Wu et al. 2021 ), partial least square (PLS) CNN-BiLSTM (PLS-CNN-BiLSTM) (Wu et al. 2021 ), CNN-GRU (Sajjad et al. 2020 ; Wu et al. 2020 ), conditional random fields (CRF) and RNN (CRF-RNN) (Wytock and Kolter 2013 ), DFNN-LSTM (Bashari and Rahimi-Kian 2020 ), radial basis function neural network-CNN (RBFNN-CNN) (Sideratos et al. 2020 ), etc.

DL models have also been used for other tasks, including smart IEQ monitoring, where different architectures were investigated, such as LSTM (Liu et al. 2020 ; Janarthanan et al. 2021 ), GRU (Ahn et al. 2017 ; Das et al. 2020 ), BiLSTM (Ma et al. 2019 ), CNN (Molinara et al. 2020 ), residual neural network (ResNet) (Zhang et al. 2020 ), variational autoencoders (VAE) coupled with CNN (VAE-CNN) (Loy-Benitez et al. 2020a ), memory-gated RNN-based autoencoders (MG-RNN-AE) (Loy-Benitez et al. 2020b ), sparse autoencoders (SAE) (Loy-Benitez et al. 2020 )

Occupancy detection in buildings has also received the attention of the DL community through the use of CNN (Zou et al. 2017 ), RNN (Zhao et al. 2018 ), LSTM (Mutis et al. 2020 ), BiLSTM (Feng et al. 2020 ). Moreover, as some studies have investigated the use of camera imagery (e.g. thermal cameras) to estimate the number of occupants inside buildings, it was rational to use various CNN backbones, which are widely utilized in image classification or image recognition, among them ResNet (Acquaah et al. 2020 ), VGGNet (Zou et al. 2017 ), AlexNet (Acquaah et al. 2020 ) and GoogLeNet (Tien et al. 2020 ). Using DL models in BAMSs has become a research hot-spot nowadays because of their robustness to natural variations in the data, which is automatically learned. Additionally, their performance significantly improves with increasing the quantity of training data. However, DL models still face different challenges. Typically, DL algorithms require large-scale training datasets to perform better than other ML models. Moreover, their training is computationally expensive as they are built on complex models. Additionally, DL models require expensive GPUs and cloud data centers to run, which increases their deployment cost (Guo et al. 2018 ; Himeur et al. 2020 ).

3.2.2.4 S4. Statistical models

They refer to mathematical models embodying an ensemble of statistical rules used to generate data samples, predict the relationships between one or diverse random/non-random variables or classify them. widely used statistical models include Bayesian networks (BN) (Singh and Yassine 2018 ), naive Bayes (NB) (Li et al. 2020 ), generalized additive models (GAM) (Khamma et al. 2020 ), bayesian belief networks (BBN) (Bassamzadeh and Ghanem 2017 ), restricted Boltzmann machines (Elsaeidy et al. 2019 ), conditional restricted Boltzmann machines (CRBM) (Kang et al. 2020 ) and factored conditional restricted Boltzmann machines (FCRBM) (Hafeez et al. 2020 ). In BAMSs, they have been used for different tasks, such as selecting the most energy-efficient primary HVAC systems (Tian et al. 2019 ), building energy and water retrofitting (Bertone et al. 2018 ), energy forecasting (Huang et al. 2018 ), assessing energy efficiency (Grillone et al. 2019 ), NILM (Verma et al. 2019 ), gas usage prediction (Pathak et al. 2018 ), IEQ monitoring (Giovanis 2019 ), etc. While most statistical models are useful for BAMSs as they have deterministic and stochastic components to mathematically describe the functional relationship between inputs and outputs, they also have pitfalls. In this respect, if recorded data is biased or faulty, statistical modeling will be misleading. In addition, these kinds of models are hard to apply to heterogeneous data (Agha and Palmskog 2018 ).

3.2.3 Semi-supervised learning (SSL)

SSL refers to the process of training ML models using a small portion of labeled data along with a large number of unlabeled observations. Then, the ML models should be able to learn and make predictions on new data. It falls between unsupervised learning and supervised learning, which is also considered as a special instance of weak supervision (Van Engelen and Hoos 2020 ). Although supervised learning techniques are largely utilized in for providing different BMAS services, they can only reach high performance only when they are trained with sufficient labeled data. Otherwise, their performance could drastically decrease if annotated data is insufficient or not accurately labeled. Moreover, annotating data is a challenging, costly, and time-consuming task. In this regard, SSL has been proposed as an alternative solution to address some of these issues.

In BAMS, SSL has been widely used for fault and anomaly detection. For instance, in Fan et al. ( 2021 , 2021 ), the authors introduce an SSL-based fault detection and diagnosis in air handling units (AHUs) based on a semi-supervised neural network (SSNN), which adopts a self-training strategy. Moving on, in Elnour et al. ( 2021 ), Elnour et al. propose an SSL-based data-driven attack detection scheme in HVAC systems to promote security in intelligent buildings. This approach has been developed using an isolation forest and two ML models, i.e. PCA and 1D-CNN (IF-PCA-CNN). While in Li et al. ( 2021 ), an SSL-based approach to detect and diagnose chiller faults is presented using a semi generative adversarial network (semi-GAN) model. In the same way, an SSL-based fault identification scheme for building HVAC systems is proposed in Li et al. ( 2021 ) using a modified GAN. In Nguyen et al. ( 2021 ), an SSL-based load monitoring solution is introduced, which has the ability to (i) augment the data, (ii) transform existing labeled sets, and (iii) train a WiderResNet (the backbone model) on the augmented data. Although SSL is an excellent option for developing AI-big data analytics when labeled data is expensive to obtain, it has some limitations, e.g., the results are not stable, and the performance is lower than that of supervised learning. Typically, the decision boundary might be overstrained if the training dataset does not have the annotated samples required in each class (Lu 2009 ).

3.2.4 Reinforcement learning (RL)

Reinforcement learning is a field in artificial intelligence that involves an agent that develops the knowledge of the best strategy to follow to accomplish a defined objective by trial and error given the interaction with its environment. Besides the RL agent and the environment, the main elements of an RL system are: (i) the policy, which is a function that defines the action taken by the RL agent in a given time step (i.e., state), (ii) the reward, which defines the result of the action taken by the agent due to its interaction with the environment, and intuitively describes the desired behavior of the agent, and (iii) the value, which indicates the long-term desirability of a set of states/actions given the agent’s experience and the likely future rewards (Collins and Cockburn 2020 ). The agent explores the possible actions to be taken as the learning progresses. Based on the consequence of the actions taken, it opts for actions that maximize the cumulative reward. Reinforcement learning algorithms can be categorized as: (i) traditional RL (TRL) methods in which tabular (i.e. lookup tables) or conventional value function approximation approaches (e.g., coarse coding, ML algorithms) are used; and (ii) deep RL (DRL), which represents the evolution of the traditional methods where DL models (e.g., deep NNs, CNNs, RNNs) are used to approximate the state and/or action value (Wang and Hong 2020 ).

3.2.4.1 R1. TRL models

It is only efficient to use TRL for simple RL problems where the action-state space can be represented in a tabular form or approximated by a simple function approximation algorithm. Monte Carlo (MC), Q-leaning (QL), State-action-reward-state-action (SARSA), policy gradient (PG), and actor-critic (AC) are examples of TRL approaches. For TRL-based BAMS applications, tabular QL was used for occupancy prediction and HVAC control to optimize the occupant comfort and energy consumption in Barrett and Linder ( 2015 ), and controlling the HVAC system and windows for mechanical and natural ventilation in Chen et al. ( 2018 ).

3.2.4.2 R2. DRL models

Recently, RL has taken advantage of the DL technology to reach phenomenal results. Typically, DL has been combined with RL due to its ability to capture all the intricate details of the knowledge and also perform complicated learning tasks that RL failed in doing so. This has given rise to DRL. In BAMSs and many other research fields, DRL is becoming a significant focus of scientists. The commonly used DRL methods are deep Q-learning (DQL), asynchronous advantage actor-critic (A3C), deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG), and proximal policy optimization (PPO). A review of DRL applications for intelligent buildings energy management was presented in Yu et al. DQL was used for indoor and domestic hot water temperature control in Lissa et al. ( 2021 ) to optimize the home energy management system. In Wang et al. ( 2017 ), a DRL-based control system for office HVAC systems using an RNN-based actor-critic approach was presented. In Valladares et al. ( 2019 ), double Q-learning was utilized for energy optimization and thermal comfort control, while PPO method was applied in Azuatalam et al. ( 2020 ); Chemingui et al. ( 2020 ) for controlling the building’s HVAC systems for energy and thermal comfort optimization.

AL in all, RL models (TRL and DRL) are utilized for solving very complex problems that can not be fixed using traditional ML or DL models. They can also correct the errors occurring during the training stage. However, exceeding the number of required RL stages can result in an overload of states, and hence reducing the performance of RL models (Ding et al. 2019 ).

3.2.5 Ensemble methods (E)

Ensemble methods are a class of ML that deploy different aggregation strategies for combining multiple learning models and then achieving better predictive performance compared to the use of a unique learning algorithm.

3.2.5.1 E1. Boosting

It implies the gradual development of an ensemble learning using a set of ML models, where every new model occurrence is trained for emphasizing the training occurrences that previous models misclassified. In some applications, boosting can achieve better performance than bagging; however, it often looks after overfitting the training data. Random forest (RF), adaptive Boosting (Adaboost), and eXtreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) were among the most used boosting models for different AI-big data analytics tasks, such as overall building energy consumption forecasting (Zekić-Sušac et al. 2021 ; Xiao et al. 2021 ; Ferdoush et al.; Wang and Chen 2021 ; Yucong and Bo 2020 ), heating and ventilation load prediction (Sun et al. 2020 ), HVAC optimization (Li 2020 ), Space cooling load forecasting (Feng et al. 2021 ), load disaggregation and monitoring (Xiao et al. 2021 ), water monitoring (Somontina et al. 2018 ; Movahedi and Derrible; Golabi et al. 2020 ), IEQ monitoring (Mo et al. 2019 ).

Following, other variants have been then introduced and utilized for performing energy forecasting and load monitoring, IEQ monitoring, water management and occupancy detection in different kinds of buildings, including gradient boosting machine (GBM) (Gong et al. 2020 ), extreme gradient boosting machine (XGBM) (Gong et al. 2020 ), gradient boosting regression tree (GBRT) (Nie et al. 2021 ), LightGBM (Park et al. 2021 ; Wang et al. 2020 ).

3.2.5.2 E2. Bootstrap aggregating

It is also abbreviated as bagging and refers to the design of a new ML model by aggregating multiple models that have equal weights in the ensemble vote. Every model is trained using a randomly drawn subclass of training data for promoting the model’s variance. Various bagging models have been developed, modified and used to perform different tasks in BAMSs. For instance, bagging ARIMA (BARIMA) in de Oliveira and Oliveira ( 2018 ) is proposed to conduct a mid-long term load forecasting, while in Khwaja et al. ( 2015 ), a bagging neural network (BNN) is developed where the bagging concept is combined with neural networks (NNs) to improve short-term energy prediction. Moving on, in Hu et al. ( 2020 ), an enhanced bagged echo state network (BESN) is introduced to forecast energy. In Choi and Hur ( 2020 ), a bagging model is developed by setting RF, XGBoost and LightGBMs as the base learners. In Dehalwar et al. ( 2016 ), the authors introduce a bagged regression tree (BRT) that has been used for energy forecasting.

Moreover, bagging models have also been employed for water management in buildings using ensemble bagging tree (EBT) (Hasanzadeh Nafari et al. 2016 ), and thermal evaluation using bagged tree (BT) (Ahmad and Chen 2018 ), and fault detection using bagged auto-associative kernel regression (BAAKR) (Yu et al. 2017 ).

Overall, ensemble methods have been used in BAMSs since they can result in better predictive accuracy than individual models in complex systems/models Moreover, they are appropriate for scenarios with linear and non-linear data variables. However, ensembling is less interpretable, and the outputs of ensemble models are complex to explain and predict in most applications. In addition, a wrong selection of the models to be aggregated will arise lower predictive accuracy than individual models. Furthermore, ensemble models are generally computationally expensive and require much storage memory.

3.3 Building environments and their characteristics

Buildings range in size, function, construction, design, and other attributes. Additionally, they present varying levels of potential hazards and risks to the occupants and the surrounding environment. However, buildings are primarily classified based on the utilization purpose that governs occupancy profile, sophistication level, and building design requirements. Building environments are further described in the following subsections.

3.3.1 Residential buildings

Residential buildings are mainly for private occupancy, designed and built for individuals or groups, providing the necessary facilities and utilities to satisfy living requirements. Spaces in residential buildings involve several activities, including sleeping, sitting, conveniences, cooking, dining, and others. Those functions can be in shared spaces or have exclusive rooms per function. They exist in various sizes and have different occupancy rates. A low occupancy density generally characterizes them. Examples of residential buildings are story houses, apartments, terraces, and condominiums. In addition to air conditioning and ventilation systems, lighting, and media equipment, several major appliances are regularly used in residential buildings, such as dishwashers, washers, dryers, refrigerators, freezers, stoves, water heaters, trash compactors, ovens, and others (Estiri 2014 ).

Residential buildings are typically equipped with simple BAMSs that provide the basic requirements of building management for inhabitants’ well-being and comfort. Standard manual control is used for the most part of their BAMSs. For instance, the decentralized control of the indoor environment is driven by the thermal comfort levels of the occupants. Thermal comfort is subjective to outside weather conditions that determine the indoor environment conditioning requirements, which are heating or cooling, humidification or dehumidification, and air ventilation (Do and Cetin 2018 ).

3.3.2 Office buildings

Office buildings are where people perform routine tasks, execute assignments and jobs for their employers, or provide passive or active, free of charge or remunerated services to the public. Types of workplaces vary in the form and requirements of the work and the variety of tools involved. Hence, they differ in size and the extent of personnel involvement and expertise. Familiar workplaces are office buildings such as law and corporate firms, commercial companies, post offices, banks, courtrooms, and similar places where people are involved in lengthy desk jobs or light-weight activities. Most of the spaces are offices, meeting rooms, or auditoriums of defined capacities. Additionally, they have shared areas such as corridors and lobbies. Office buildings require flexible and technologically-advanced working environments that are safe, healthy, pleasant, durable, and accessible towards promoting the users’ comfort, productivity, and working efficiency (Tanabe et al. 2013 ). It includes the accessibility to natural ventilation and natural lighting sources, and the availability of IEQ control and monitoring. The provision of localized indoor environment control allows users to adjust the air temperature, air movement, and other relevant indoor environment properties according to their preferences. They are characterized by their moderate operation schedules, and fairly regular and established user profiles. Additionally, some workspaces may involve many service recipients (Alsalemi et al.).

3.3.3 Healthcare centers

The indoor environment in healthcare centers is critical for the health, well-being, safety, and comfort of patients, visitors, and the staff, as well as for the medical utilities and services. It has to comply with specific standards related to temperature, infection, and odor control (Salonen et al. 2013 ). It plays a significant role in the quality of the provided medical service in terms of the treatment, healing, recovery processes, and the success of the conducted operations and procedures.

The various spaces in healthcare centers have different temperature regulation requirements. For instance, the success of surgical procedures depends in part upon the cold indoor conditions of the operating room to avoid the risks of anesthetic explosions, promote the comfort, productivity, and efficiency of the staff, and conserve the patient’s resources (Ellis 1963 ). On the other hand, burn units are regulated at temperatures between 28 and 33 degrees because burn injuries restrict the ability of patients’ bodies to stay warm (Fernández and Pablo 2021 ). Moreover, healthcare centers require a clean and sterile environment. Hospital-acquired infections are a major threat in healthcare centers (Lobdell et al. 2012 ). Hence, air ventilation and infection control are essential to control the potential contaminants and other suspended microorganisms, consequently lowering airborne disease risk. Additionally, air ventilation helps dispel odors, which improves the indoor conditions for the patients, staff, and visitors. Moreover, medical waste disposal and management is an essential aspect of the operation of healthcare centers as they are considered one of the main sites for the generation of hazardous waste (Aljabre 2002 ). The proper management of medical waste is essential to avoid health and environmental risks. Healthcare centers have protocols for the disposal of the generated waste according to their location. Additionally, healthcare centers are obliged to provide adequate security implementations for (i) the safety of patients, the public, and staff, (ii) the privacy and integrity of the patients’ data, (iii) the prevention of breaches against the BAMS, (iv) the management of the utilities and equipment, and (v) the prevention of injuries and unwanted occurrences.

3.3.4 Sports facilities

Sports facilities involve areas where individuals or groups engage in physical exercise, participate in athletic competitions, or attend sporting events. Examples of sports facilities are gymnasiums, cultural centers, stadiums, swimming pools, indoor and outdoor tennis courts, squash courts, training halls, and sports arenas. They encompass large and various spaces involving different types of activities. Sports facilities have distinct requirements for air conditioning and ventilation, thermal comfort, and lighting with unique usage and occupancy patterns. They are governed by the type of sports activity, the operating time, the season, and the geographical location of the facility (Trianti-Stourna et al. 1998 ).

Sports facilities are characterized by the variety of their architectural sophistication and sizes, deployed technologies, and their distinctive energy demand profile compared to other types of buildings (Elnour et al. 2022 ). For instance, stadiums are the most sophisticated ones, which occupy vast land space. Even though they are often infrequently used, their operation and running costs during a single event are substantial (Aquino and Nawari 2015 ). Aquatic centers are the second most popular sports facilities that host different water events and tournaments. They encompass other spaces such as changing rooms, shower rooms, and storage rooms.

Sustainability measures and implementation are deployed in sports facilities’ design, construction, and operations. They require extensive lighting, air conditioning, broadcasting, surveillance, and security requirements when operated to achieve successful sports events. The proper lighting in the sports facilities ensures good visual conditions. The event’s prosperous broadcasting is essential to delivering an entertaining, thrilling, and engaging experience for the athletes and fans. Given the considerable volume of user flow in sports facilities, emergency evacuation planning, users’ entry and exit management, security screening, and preventive measures are among the top priorities in sports facilities management (Hall et al. 2011 ). Additionally, sports facilities involve extensive body workouts and activity by the users, during which excessive heat and CO2 discharge occur. They demand mainly air conditioning and ventilation, especially for indoor sports events as well as water heating for pools and domestic use to maintain the comfort, health, and well-being of the users. Moreover, sports facilities require constant maintenance, servicing, and overseeing even when not used, such as grass fields, pools, water treatment, and sports equipment.

3.3.5 Commercial buildings

Commercial buildings have at least 50% of their floor spaces for commercial activities (Kiliccote and Piette), such as malls, retail, and food services. Malls and restaurants are typical commercial buildings of various sizes and complexity. They include shops, cafes, kitchens with several commercial appliances, storage rooms, pantries, a refrigerated space, offices, dining areas, and public restrooms. They demand maintaining a clean and well-conditioned environment. For example, in restaurants and coffee shops, compliance with proper food storage and preparation standards is required to reduce the risk of spoiling food and eliminate the risk of incidents jeopardizing the well-being of the users as well as the reputation of the restaurants (El-Sharkawy and Javed 2018 ).

Air ventilation affects the health and safety of workers and customers and can influence food sanitation levels. The chiefs and the kitchen staff in restaurants are exposed to air pollutants generated from cooking for long periods. Hence, they may suffer potential respiratory and cardiovascular problems in the long run (Juntarawijit and Juntarawijit 2017 ). Also, they are subjected to high levels of heat generated from cooking activities, decreasing the staff’s productivity. Additionally, excessive unpleasant odors or poor air conditioning in restaurants can result in an unpleasant experience for the customers. In addition, malls and shopping centers are commercial buildings where goods or services are sold to customers. They may include ample parking spaces, escalators, elevators, and various outlets such as department stores, food courts, amusement and theme parks, and movie theaters. Safe and comfortable indoor conditions are essential to provide a convenient and enjoyable experience for users and maintain a flourishing business with efficient energy consumption to contain the incurred running and operating costs.

Commercial buildings are famous for their exceptional operating schedule and occupancy patterns. They run for about more than 12 hours all week, and they have peak occupancy during weekends and significant volumes of user flow. They utilize extensive closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance, lighting, and air ventilation and conditioning systems. Additionally, fire prevention, suspension, and other security and alarm systems are crucial elements of their management systems to ensure dependable and safe circumstances for the users. Overly, the proper management of commercial buildings is essential to maintain a lucrative operation.

3.3.6 Industrial buildings

Industrial buildings include buildings used for the generation and distribution of power, manufacturing products such as food, apparel, electronics, petrochemicals, construction materials, automobiles, the processing of raw materials, and many others. They have minimal and relatively low user flow for security purposes, such that they are only accessible to individuals with privileges. However, they involve energy-intensive and delicate machinery. They are generally equipped with sophisticated BAMSs that support the security and the centralized control requirements. Industrial buildings are equipped with robotics, industrial devices, and software-defined production processes. They require a high level of automation, given the nature of the processes involved and the tasks performed. In addition, they may involve delicate processes that are associated with health, social, and environmental risks. Industrial sites and environments can result in air and water pollution due to the generated by-products and the released unwanted toxins of the occurring processes. Hazards from combustion and unstable reactions can lead to highly harmful accidents due to the sudden release of material at high temperatures or pressures (Englund 2007 ). Additionally, fire hazards are common in industrial facilities, which can endanger the lives of staff and can result in substantial economic losses and environmental implications. Industrial facilities must be safe, secure, and productive. Proper process control, air ventilation, treatment and conditioning, and waste management are crucial to managing the safety and health of the staff as well as the general public and the surrounding environment. Security is an essential dimension in the operation of the BAMSs of industrial buildings.

3.3.7 Academic buildings

Academic buildings are used to conduct teaching activities such as schools, academies, universities, colleges, technical institutes, etc. They encompass classrooms, lecture halls, libraries, student centers, dining halls, laboratories, computer labs, offices, and service areas necessary for the proper functioning of the academic programs. Individuals of various age groups are frequent users of educational facilities, and they engage in multiple types of activities. A convenient and safe environment in academic facilities is an essential requirement for the education process. It affects the well-being and comfort of students, faculty members, and other staff, hence their productivity and working efficiency. A comfortable and safe environment has been identified as an essential element for enhancing the learning of students (Muhammad et al. 2014 ). Over-heated and poorly ventilated classrooms can result in the discomfort of students and educators, and consequently diverts their attention and affects their abilities to concentrate (Roelofsen). Adequate lighting in the facilities of academic buildings is vital to the comfort and well-being of the students to create an attractive and engaging learning environment and avoid eye strain. Additionally, students’ health and well-being are essential for their learning process. The indoor environment influences students’ attendance and hence their study. Students need to be in good health to be able to study well. Therefore, spaces in academic buildings should be well conditioned and ventilated to avoid altering users’ well-being, spreading airborne diseases spread, and disrupting students’ learning. Lastly, a brief summary is presented in Table  2 to compare the characteristics of the different buildings discussed above.

3.4 Computing platforms

3.4.1 cloud computing.

The advancement of cloud computing platforms has opened new opportunities for BAMSs to take control of operations on a large scale. Thus, BAMSs that consist of networked sensors and actuators, have been recently adapted to be able to connect to different cloud-based services (Alsalemi et al. 2020 ). The latter can provide data storage, connectivity, and powerful computing resources. To that end, significant efforts have been devoted to developing cloud-based big data analytics solutions in BAMSs (Bode et al. 2019 ). For instance, a voice-activated system for remotely monitoring BAMSs using cloud computing is presented in Valenzuela et al. ( 2013 ). While in Khattak et al. ( 2019 ), the idea of developing vehicular clouds for smart buildings and smart city applications is investigated. Moving on, in Stergiou et al. ( 2018 ), the security and privacy concerns along with the efficiency of cloud platforms are analyzed. In Delsing ( 2017 ), local cloud IoT automation is studied to promote the use of distributed IoT automation solutions.

Despite the significant effort made during the last decade to promote the use of cloud-services to run BAMSs, some drawbacks are still causing issues to users and operators, among them (i) the increased cost and communication overheads, (ii) the privacy and security concerns, especially when private data is transmitted to a centralized server for processing (Mohamed et al. 2018 ).

3.4.2 Edge computing

Edge computing it refers to performing data pre-processing, data fusion for different sources and AI-big data analytics at the edge of the network i.e. sensor nodes (Ray et al. 2019 ). Also, it enables optimizing cloud computing platforms due to its capability to use the processing power of IoT devices for filtering, pre-processing, aggregating and storing IoT sensor data. These tasks can correspondingly be conducted in real-time using convenient analytical tools (Sharma et al. 2018 ), while cloud platforms perform further enrichment, aggregation and running complex analytics on the filtered data. To that end, the new advances in BAMSs combined with the latest generation of IoT devices make it possible to bring the intelligence and computing tasks to the edge nodes in close proximity to the building’s IoT devices (Zakharchenko and Stepanets 2019 ; Khan et al. 2020 ). Moreover, a new generation of open software platforms hosted on edge nodes are enabling access to the building data and advanced AI-big analytics deployed on these platforms are providing the technology to create value from this data by transforming data from building environments into actionable information. Various open edge platforms have recently been proposed, e.g. IOTech’s Edge Xpert, Footnote 3 Echelon SmartServer IoT platform, Footnote 4 JENEsys Edge, Footnote 5 etc.

3.4.3 Fog computing

Fog computing represents a decentralized computing strategy where data storage, data processing and computing resources are located in the middle layer situated between edge devices and cloud. Typically, IoT smart sensors and submeters periodically collect the data and forward it to a gateway that acts as a fog device (Javadzadeh and Rahmani 2020 ). In this line, BAMSs can benefit from streaming data over a layer of fog devices (or nodes) to become more connected, where data can be analyzed to detect abnormalities for example, and autonomously react, if authorized, for compensating the problems or fixing the issues. Otherwise, fog nodes will send the convenient requests to the cloud (or services higher up the fog hierarchy) for making further skilled and powerful technical analysis using complex ML models (Ferrández-Pastor et al. 2018 ; Aazam et al. 2018 ).

For instance, in some situations that require real-time decision-making, e.g. shut down appliances or equipment before being damaged or adjust crucial process parameters, edge devices or fog nodes can rapidly act with millisecond-level latency, while it is not possible to reach real-time decision making using cloud data centers (Rocha Filho et al. 2018 ). Therefore, the use of fog computing or edge computing helps avoid potential latency problems, delays an/or network/server down-times that can lead to different kinds of accidents or reduced service optimization and efficiency (Maatoug et al. 2019 ).

3.4.4 Hybrid computing

Hybrid computing refers to the case when the aforementioned computing architectures, i.e. edge computing, fog computing and cloud computing, are used together to process and analyze data (Himeur et al. 2021 ; Zhang et al. 2020 ). In this context, based on the application scenario and computation requirement, some data processing tasks could be made at the edge devices and/or fog nodes, while high-level data processing tasks (e.g. feature extraction, classification, anomaly detection, etc.) could be performed at the cloud data centers (Himeur et al. 2020 ).

3.5 Applications

3.5.1 facility and asset management.

Facility management to eliminate waste is among the benefits of using AI-big data analytics in BAMSs and can perform in diverse forms. For instance, using an AI strategy, a bathroom supplies monitoring company has saved up to 40% in of the total cost by installing a sensors that collect and send information about the utilization levels of toilet paper rolls and soaps (Gaboalapswe 2019 ; Sayed et al. 2022 ). Similar techniques are also be deployed for monitoring sports facilities, commercial buildings, office supplies, and other building necessities (Himeur et al. 2021 ; Idowu et al. 2016 ).

For instance, in sports facilities there is an emergency to improve the BAMS services to meet consumer’s growing experience needs, and hence, overcome various issues, e.g. poor resource sharing, weak flexibility of response and slow transmission of information, and instability of aero-thermal comfort, which are considerable affecting the end-users’ experience and restricting the development of sport venues (Zhong et al. 2020 ). To that end, a great attention has been put recently to design intelligent BAMS architectures of sport centers. This helps in interconnecting multiple subsystems, improving the interoperability, integrating information, realizing the integration of data application network, and achieves the goal of resource sharing and function upgrading. In Xiao-wei ( 2020 ), an AI-big data analytics platform is built using SVM-back propagation neural network (SVM-BPNN) for (i) predicting the end-user flow in the sport facility, (ii) providing recommendations to adjust the service plan, and (iii) improving the overall management and the end-users’ experience. Moving on, in Wan et al. ( 2021 ), as the cyber-security is a challenging issue in sports facilities due to the number of spectators and players and the large number of sport events organized, an AI-assisted cyber-physical system (AI-CPS) is integrated to the BAMS for promoting network security and predicting cyber attacks and adversaries.

On the other hand, because developing an appropriate setpoint temperature for the HVAC system is a crucial challenge, the authors in Aparicio-Ruiz et al. ( 2021 ) identify such temperature using a KNN-based dynamic adaptive comfort technique. It relies on the idea that occupants’ thermal comfort in a building has different acceptability levels, which can be used for learning the comfort temperature corresponding to the average running temperature. Thus, this helps define the adequate range of indoor temperature. While in Carreira et al. ( 2018 ), Carreira et al. introduce a framework for tracking building end-users’ group preferences, learning from them, and automatically managing HVAC systems. This framework is built by tracking building users using an RFID card, interacting with them on a mobile app, computing setpoints, and sending instructions to the HVAC sub-system over a gateway. Additionally, a K-means algorithm has been used for configuring the setpoint, in line with a prediction based on the current building status.

3.5.2 Load forecasting

In BAMSs, forecasting energy consumption is of significant importance to enable an effective management of energy, in which AI-big data analytics techniques play an essential role. In doing so, load patterns (and ambient conditions) are constantly collected from diverse building smart-meters and then fed into the AI models to predict energy usage. Because of the real-time characteristic of short-term forecasting, it has been more challenging than generic forecasting. Thus, various AI-big data analytics models have been proposed (Chou and Tran 2018 ; Ahmad and Chen 2018 ; Seyedzadeh et al. 2018 ; Fathi et al. 2020 ). In Pham et al. ( 2020 ), a random forests (RF) model is introduced to perform a short-term energy load prediction at an hourly sampling rate in various buildings by using different energy consumption datasets. In Seyedzadeh et al. ( 2019 ), the authors investigate the performance of diverse popular ML algorithms to predict buildings heating and cooling energy usage. Accordingly, specific tuning has been carried out for every ML algorithm using two building energy consumption datasets generated in EnergyPlus and Ecotect. In Ribeiro et al. ( 2018 ), a transfer learning based load prediction scheme is introduced, where energy consumption data of different buildings are used to forecast the load of a new building. This approach can work with various ML algorithms with pre- and post-processing phases.

In Moon et al. ( 2018 ), Moon et al. propose an energy prediction model using diverse ML models, including ANN, SVR, and PCA-factor analysis (PCA-FA). Data from four buildings in an academic institution have been used for evaluating the performance of these models. In Ahmad et al. ( 2020 ), an intelligent load prediction scheme is proposed using generated sampled data-based Gaussian process regression model (GSD-GPRM), regression binary decision tree (RBDT), bootstrap bagging of regression trees (BBRT) and binary multiclass classification decision tree (BMCDT). In Idowu et al. ( 2016 ), supervised ML algorithms are used to develop a load forecasting model using SVM, regression tree, feed-forward neural network (FFNN), and multiple linear regression (MLR). Moving on, in Ahmad et al. ( 2018 ), diverse supervised ML models are implemented to predict energy consumption at short, medium, and long-term levels in different building environments, namely compact regression Gaussian process (CRGP), binary decision tree (BDT), generalized linear regression model (GLRM) and stepwise Gaussian processes regression (SGPR). In Chou and Ngo ( 2016 ), a short-term based energy prediction system is proposed using a seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) model along with a metaheuristic firefly algorithm-based least squares support vector regression (MetaFA-LSSVR) model. Typically, this framework uses (i) the SARIMA architecture for linearing energy observations, and (ii) the MetaFA-LSSVR model for capturing nonlinear energy patterns.

In Li et al. ( 2021 ), a transfer-learning-based ANN scheme is developed to predict short-term energy consumption in information-poor buildings. The efficiency of transfer learning in improving the prediction accuracy has been demonstrated using limited training data. Moving on, in Grolinger et al. ( 2016 ), a short-term energy consumption prediction of sports facilities, which is considered as a challenging scenario due to the variations caused by by the hosted events, is performed using NN and SVR. In Zheng et al. ( 2017 ), a short-term energy prediction approach using an empirical mode decomposition (EMD)-LSTM-based RNN is proposed with a Xgboost model to select feature patterns based on a feature importance evaluation. In a similar manner, in Haq et al. ( 2021 ), a sequential learning-based load forecasting algorithm is developed and used in both residential and commercial buildings. Accordingly, this framework implements a convLSTM integrated with BiLSTM (ConvLSTM-BiLSTM) and compares its performance with various sequential models, including ConvLSTM integrated with BiLSTM, LSTM, auto-encoder (AE), multi-layer Bi-LSTM (MBiLSTM), BiLSTM-AE, GRU, and CNN with multilayer bidirectional GRU (CNN-MB-GRU). Fig.  4 illustrates a flowchart of an energy forecasting system based on AI-big data analytics. Specifically, a short-term energy consumption prediction is performed using EMD-LSTM neural networks with a Xgboost algorithm to extract importance features. Besides, Moradzadeh et al. ( 2020 ) propose a heating and cooling load forecasting scheme that is based on MLP and SVR in residential buildings. These models help identify a linear mapping between inputs and outputs. MLP has outperformed SVR in terms of the recall metric, where a recall of 99.93% has been achieved. To summarize, Table  3 compares various AI-Big data analytics frameworks used for energy forecasting, in terms of AI model, forecast horizon, building environment, year of appearance, method description and evaluation metrics.

Flowchart of an energy forecasting system based on AI-big data analytics (Zheng et al. 2017 )

3.5.3 Energy efficiency

One area that can get immensely benefited from AI-big data analytics is energy efficiency in buildings. This is because of the way a building consumes energy can be quite variable, and is related to various parameters, e.g. the nature of the building, the energy provider, the sources of the energy, the number of devices, the number of end-users/occupants in any building, the behavior of end-users/occupants, etc. Himeur et al. ( 2021 ); Fatema et al. ( 2020 ). Moreover, comprehending the energy consumption habits of a building is the first and most critical step to achieve energy efficiency. This way, AI-big data analytics and energy efficiency can go hand in hand towards the goal of optimizing energy consumption and reducing the amount of wasted energy without compromising the comfort level of end-users and the level of efficiency and productivity in a company or industry Sardianos et al. ( 2021 ).

In (Yu and Chiller), Yu et al. propose an open IoT cloud-based ML system, namely AI Chiller, to promote energy efficiency in buildings by optimizing the consumption of the HVAC system. An AI-big data analytics scheme based on an RNN-LSTM architecture and to analyzing and fusing BAMS environmental footprints has been developed and combined with a genetic algorithm to achieve 10% savings. In Al-Ali et al. ( 2017 ), energy saving in residential buildings in the Gulf region is achieved using IoT, off-the-shelf business intelligence, and big data analytics platforms.

3.5.4 Predictive control and thermal comfort

One solution to save buildings’ energy is using model predictive control (MPC). It aims at developing predictive models for (i) simulating input-output interactions; and (ii) helping users to identify optimum control actions that drive the predicted outputs to the desired references. In this context, ML models predict energy demand and simulate MPC control techniques to save energy and optimize end-users’ comfort. Typically, these models can provide decision bases for selecting optimal MPC control actions Serale et al. ( 2018 ); Mariano-Hernández et al. ( 2021 ). In Gao et al. ( 2020 ), building thermal comfort control is conducted using RL, where a deep feed-forward neural network (FNN)-based method is introduced. The latter helps predict consumers’ thermal comfort before introducing a deep deterministic policy gradients (DDPGs)-based scheme to optimize thermal comfort. In Yang et al. ( 2020 ), an MPC approach based on an RNN with nonlinear autoregressive exogenous (NARX) architecture, namely NARX-RNN, is proposed to optimize air conditioning and mechanical ventilation (ACMV) in a hospital office and hence save energy and optimize thermal comfort. Similarly, in Yang et al. ( 2021 ), the same methodology is experimentally implemented to control the ACMV systems in office and lecture theatre (LT) testbeds in real-time. In Chen et al. ( 2020 ), Chen et al. developed an MPC approach based on deep transfer learning to optimize the HVAC operation in smart buildings.

Moving forward, in Bünning et al. ( 2020 ), an RF-based data predictive control (DPC) scheme is proposed using convex optimization and affine functions. This help in controlling energy consumption and temperature in a room of a real-life apartment. In Yang and Wan ( 2022 ), Yang et al., RNN-NARX-based MPC is introduced with instantaneous linearization for ACMV optimization. Table  4 summarizes some of the recent ML-based MPC frameworks described above, their characteristics, and their contributions. Most concentrate on controlling HVAC and ACMV systems in buildings since they consume the most significant proportion of building energy. Thus, this significantly impacts the thermal comfort of buildings’ occupants.

3.5.5 Anomaly and fault detection and diagnosis

Failures in building electric networks and devices’ operation cycles may result in excessive energy losses and extra costs. To alleviate these issues, AI-big data analytics are a prevalent tool that enables detecting faults and disturbances early enough and predicting maintenance. That is possible by implementing continuous energy consumption monitoring to create ”an early warning system” empowered with AI-big data analytics strategies and pattern recognition models to notify the end-users and operators Alsalemi et al. ( 2020 ). Accordingly, information related to energy consumption, environmental conditions, and occupancy patterns is fed into the AI black-boxes to identify and classify deviations. Once deviations are classified, their causes are determined before taking appropriate measures for their prevention Himeur et al. ( 2020 ), Alsalemi et al. ( 2020 ).

In this regard, a plethora of AI-based frameworks have been proposed to develop AI-big data analytics platforms that allow building energy efficiency Himeur et al. ( 2021 ). In Himeur et al. ( 2020 ), a DNN model and the micro-moment concept have been used to identify energy consumption deviations. A micro-moment rule-based algorithm is employed to extract load features of daily intent-driven energy usage moments. Next, DNN is applied to classify and determine abnormal consumption classes automatically and then compare the performance with various scenarios using conventional ML classifiers, e.g. LR, LDA, NB, SVM, RF, KNN, DT, ensemble classifier, and MLP. Similarly, in Himeur et al. ( 2021 ), unsupervised and supervised anomaly detection schemes are introduced to promote energy saving in academic and residential buildings. OCSVM is applied to extract abnormal energy consumption patterns from unlabeled data, while an improved kNN classifier is proposed to process annotated consumption footprints that are benchmarked using the micro-moment concept. In Xu and Chen ( 2020 ), a hybrid model using RNNs with quantile regression (QR) is proposed for anomaly detection in residential houses towards improving the performance of the building and reducing energy waste (Table 5 ).

Additionally, fault detection and diagnosis in HVAC systems, being the most extensively operated equipment, has been covered widely in the literature. For instance, the utilization of the different configurations of deep RNNs is investigated in Taheri et al. ( 2021 ) to perform fault detection and diagnosis of common HVAC system faults, such as the malfunction and leakage of valves and dampers and sensor bias faults. A comparative study is presented comparing the performance of a DRNN-based diagnosis approach with RF and GB algorithms. In Yun et al. ( 2021 ), a neural network-based supervised auto-encoder (NN-SAE) - which is an auto-encoder with two outputs that are the classification label and the reconstructed signal- is proposed for air handling units fault detection and diagnosis before its validation using ASHRAE experimental data. The two outputs of the NN-SAE have been then processed to determine the diagnosis decision reliability. This approach has been compared with conventional ANN and SVM algorithms, and it has been found reliable as it considers undefined situations.

Additionally, a 2D CNN-based HVAC system actuator fault diagnosis is introduced in Elnour and Meskin, in which the system’s measurements and control signals were configured into multi-channel images and then processed using the 2D CNN-based diagnosis framework. CNNs are characterized by their high-performance accuracy and powerful capability in learning and realizing complex functions and interdependency from any given data. While in Liu et al. ( 2021 ), a CNN-based chiller fault diagnosis method is developed for building energy systems. Additionally, a TRL-based scheme is assessed to investigate the potential of using a pre-trained CNN-based fault diagnosis approach for chillers with different specifications, which is useful when available data is limited in size and/or types of operating conditions/faults captured.

In Dey et al. ( 2020 ), a big-data framework is presented to enable automated HVAC system fault diagnosis in large scale buildings in which a feature extraction approach is proposed to reduce the data dimensionality, and a multi-class SVM (MCSVM) algorithm is utilized to develop the diagnosis model. It aims to provide energy savings through preemptive maintenance, behavior analysis, and predictive building identification. In Bode et al. ( 2020 ), various ML algorithms are investigated to perform fault detection on a heat pump system, which are LR, kNN, classification and regression tree (CART), RF, NB, SVM, and NNs. This study demonstrates the effect of the data quality and amount and the limitations on the system’s features availability (i.e, types of available sensors) on the performance of the developed ML models. While in Han et al. ( 2020 ), a supervised hybrid fault diagnosis model using SVM, kNN, and RF is developed for chiller fault diagnosis such that the three models are developed independently to perform fault diagnosis; then the final decision is made based on the plurality voting method. It was found that ensemble learning contributes to diagnostic performance improvements. In Li et al. ( 2021 ), a fault diagnosis approach is proposed for the common component faults in the HVAC system of an office building using a modified GAN. The proposed approach enables leveraging the labeled and unlabeled data simultaneously such that it aims to process the unlabeled data and utilize the limited information from the labeled ones to conclude the diagnosis decision.

Those fault diagnosis approaches mainly require sufficient labeled data for training, which can be unavailable or complex, and costly to obtain. Therefore, several studies have developed unsupervised and semi-supervised diagnosis strategies as in Elnour et al. ( 2020 ), where an auto-associative neural network (AANN) is utilized for sensor data validation and fault diagnosis in HVAC systems using semi-supervised learning. It demonstrates a compelling performance in sensor error correction, data replacement of unavailable sensors, measurement noise reduction, and sensor inaccuracy correction. Also, it is effective for both single and multiple sensor faults diagnoses. In Zhu et al. ( 2021 ), transfer learning is applied to develop a chiller fault diagnosis approach that only requires the system’s normal operation data using domain adversarial neural network (DANN). While in Shahnazari et al. ( 2019 ), a distributed diagnosis approach using RNNs utilizing the normal system operation data is developed for multiple sensors and actuator faults diagnosis. It is based on developing intercommunicating fault detection and isolation (LFDI) agents for the various HVAC subsystems, i.e., cooling coil, VAV box, etc., and each LFDI agent is composed of two RNN-based models. It demonstrates promising capability in fault diagnosis. However, it is excessively computationally demanding, given the two RNN-based models included in each agent.

Additionally, a multi-level automatic fault detection framework is proposed in Dey et al. ( 2020 ) for fan coil units (FCUs). Feature extraction followed by data clustering are applied to identify faulty and healthy data, and then a clustering-based fault diagnosis model is developed. The least-squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) regression model is used in Han et al. ( 2019 ) to develop a chiller fault diagnosis strategy that is validated using ASHRAE data. The proposed approach is compared with two other methods using the SVM algorithm of probabilistic neural networks (PNNs). In Choi and Yoon ( 2021 ), a semi-supervised fault diagnosis approach is proposed for building automation systems using NN-based auto-encoders (AEs). An AE is a structure that transfers the input to the latent space then uses the compressed representation to produce a reconstructed version at the output. Variants of the proposed method are investigated: the residual-based approach using the error between the original and the reconstructed signal as the indication of the system status, and the latest space-based approach in which the features of the compressed representation are used for fault diagnosis.

3.5.6 Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) monitoring

IEQ monitoring continues to grow in importance, several works have demonstrated an apparent relationship between the increasing concentration of \(\hbox {CO}_2\) and decreasing cognitive performance (Nejat et al. 2020 ; Pulimeno et al. 2020 ). Typically, monitoring ambient IEQ and temperature can reveal valuable information for creating a healthier, more comfortable environment for end-users. It is also a prime opportunity for energy and cost savings (Saini et al. 2020a ). Thus it becomes possible, using detailed AI analytics in BAMSs, to identify various environmental problems, including air pollution, where different pollutants may affect the IEQ , such as the cleaning products, cigarettes smoke, perfumes, construction activities, water-damaged building materials, and other types of outdoor pollutants (Saini et al. 2020b ). Indeed, albeit these gazes are commonly safe for end-users, their effect on human health can be dangerous if they exceed certain thresholds of exposure. To that end, an intelligent IEQ monitoring system for classifying and recognizing diverse pollutants and measuring their levels is of utmost importance (Wei et al. 2019 ; Muiruri et al. 2021 ).

Before the COVID-19 outbreak, IEQ monitoring was not a priority in public buildings, e.g. sport venues, banks, healthcare centers, academic institutions, commercial centers, restaurants, and so on. However, the fast proliferation of the corona virus and its resulting harmful effects have put IEQ in the spotlight as an important component of BAMSs. In Mumtaz et al. ( 2021 ), the authors (i) develop an IoT node including various sensors for collecting data, (ii) introduce a NN model for classifying 8 pollutants, and (iii) design an LSTM-based DL model for predicting the concentration of every pollutant and the overall IEQ. In Mad Saad et al. ( 2017 ), a pollutant recognition scheme is proposed for IEQ monitoring using different supervised ML algorithms, including MLP, KNN and linear discrimination analysis (LDA). The evaluation has been conducted in a residential building located in a rural area in China, where 5 different indoor air pollutants were considered (combustion activity, presence of chemicals, presence of food and beverages, ambient air, and presence of fragrances). While in Loy-Benitez et al. ( 2020b ), Loy et al. introduce an ML-based scheme for detecting, diagnosing, identifying, and reconstructing abnormal observations of multivariate IEQ data in a subway station. Accordingly, a memory-gated RNN-based autoencoders (MG-RNN-AE) that can process dynamic and sequential IEQ data has been utilized.

In Cruz et al. ( 2020 ), an IEQ prediction model is developed using SVM radial basis function (SVM-RBF) and stochastic Gradient Boosting machines (SGBM). The performance of of these models has been evaluated using root mean squared error (RMSE) and \(R^{2}\) , and a comparison with other ML algorithms has been presented. In Taştan and Gökozan ( 2019 ), a real-time IEQ monitoring system is designed using and IoT-based e-nose and diverse ML classifiers, including SVR, generalized regression neural network (GRNN), and extreme learning machine (ELM) with Gaussian kernels. The linear correlation (LC) has been used for evaluating this framework. In Sharma et al. ( 2021 ), a cost-effective framework for IEQ prediction is introduced, where MLP and eXtream Gradient Boosting Regression (XGBR) are used for providing real-time measurements of the concentration of pollutants, i.e. \(\hbox {CO}_{{2}}\) and particulate matter 2.5 ( \(\hbox {PM}_{2.5}\) ) in a set of classrooms. Moving on, an LSTM without using the forget gate (LSTM-wF) is deployed to predict the air quality at a lower complexity and increase the prediction performance.

In Alawadi et al. ( 2020 ), an indoor temperature forecasting scheme is proposed, where up to 36 ML models (pertaining to 20 different families) have been deployed. Real-world data gathered for three hours from both smart households and weather station have been used to validate this study. Similarly, in Aliberti et al. ( 2019 ), Aliberti et al. propose a smart solution for indoor air-temperature prediction, where a non-linear autoregressive neural network (NN-ARNN) has been utilized to perform short- and medium-term forecasting. This model has been then validated on both a synthetic dataset and real-world data recorded using IoT devices installed in residential buildings.

As \(\hbox {CO}_{{2}}\) concentration is appropriate for measuring the IEQ quality due to its over the sensor networks, a set of frameworks have adopted it. For instance, in Taheri and Razban ( 2021 ), an ML-based IEQ monitoring approach is proposed by predicting \(\hbox {CO}_{{2}}\) concentration in the academic building (campus classrooms) using demand-controlled ventilation. Various ML algorithms have been employed and compared to learn the \(\hbox {CO}_{{2}}\) concentration, among them SVM, AdaBoost, RF, Gradient Boosting (GB), LR, and MLP. In a similar way, Kallio et al. ( 2021 ) propose a smart approach to forecast office indoor \(\hbox {CO}_{{2}}\) concentration by adopting four ML algorithms, i.e. ridge regression (RR), DT, RF, and MLP. Moreover, a baseline to evaluate the indoor \(\hbox {CO}_{{2}}\) prediction has been introduced by producing a benchmark dataset covering an entire year. Moving on, In Tagliabue et al. ( 2021 ), an ML-based IEQ monitoring approach that relies on measuring the \(\hbox {CO}_{{2}}\) concentration in an academic building is proposed. Specifically, an LSTM-based RNN models and IoT sensors have been then used for monitoring the indoor conditions depending on the occupancy patterns.

Other IEQ monitoring frameworks have focused on measuring and predicting other factors, which are recommended in various countries, such as total volatile organic compounds (TVOC), formaldehyde (HCHO), and carbon monoxide (CO). For instance, in Chen et al. ( 2018 ), Chen et al. use four ML models, including SVM, Gaussian processes (GP), M5P and backpropagation neural network (BPNN) for predicting \(\hbox {CO}_2\) , HCHO, and TVOC in an academic building (in Singapore). In a similar way, in Lagesse et al. ( 2020 ), various ML models are utilized for predicting \(\hbox {PM}_{2.5}\) in office buildings, i.e. ANN, LSTM, multiple linear regression (MLR), partial least squares regression (PLS), distributed lag model (DLM), and least absolute shrinkage selector operator (LASSO).

Other AI-big data analytics have also been used to perform additional tasks. For example, Loy et al. ( 2020a ) introduce a variational autoencoder (VAE) coupled with convolutional layers (VAE-CNN) model to impute missing IEQ data. Accordingly, two scenarios have been adopted to evaluate the VAE-CNN algorithms: (i) a point-to-point data removal, and (ii) data intervals removing at different sampling rates. While in Kalajdjieski et al. ( 2020 ), the capability of generative adversarial networks (GANs) is exploited in combination with a data augmentation technique for overcoming the class-imbalance issue while monitoring IEQ using large-scale datasets. Table  6 outlines pertinent AI-Big data analytics frameworks introduced for monitoring IEQ and performs a comparison between them, with reference to the AI model, forecast horizon, building environment, year of appearance, method description and evaluation metrics.

3.5.7 Security and safety

Among the major safety concerns in general and in buildings, in particular, are the fire outbreak. The prevention of and the immediate reaction to fires minimizes their consequences in terms of the people’s well-being and the financial losses. This includes the minimization of fire incidents potentials, the fast detection and extinguishment of the fire source, the effective execution of emergency evacuation, and the prompt notification of the emergency situation to the concerned authorities. Buildings are usually equipped with conventional fire alarm and extinguishment systems consisting of several sensing devices, including smoke, heat, and flame detectors, automated alarms, and water sprinklers (Zverovich et al. 2016 ). With the advent of big data algorithms and analytics, the fire safety in buildings can be boosted by employing buildings data to develop frameworks for fire prevention, detection, and suspension. An analysis of the advantage of utilizing ML algorithms for reliable and prompt fire detection was provided in Surya ( 2017 ) represented in their distinguished capability of black-box modeling, feature extraction, pattern recognition with high accuracy and reliability. Unlike conventional fire detection systems, ML-based models can be used to detect fire, analyze it effects, assess its risks, predict its behavior utilizing the data collected from the sensing devices.

For example, in Zhang et al. ( 2021 ), a model combining a deep belief network (DBN) and a recurrent LSTM neural network (R-LSTM-NN) was proposed for fire hazards prediction in smart cities. The proposed model was used in predicting the air quality that is then used to detect fire outbreaks based on the sensors readings of the IoT system. It shows promising potential in when data records of the IoT system are available for normal operation and scenarios of fire occurrence. In Fu ( 2020 ), a comparative study was presented using ML algorithms, namely, DT, KNN, and NNs, to develop classification models to predict failure patterns and to assess the progressive collapse potential for steel framed buildings in fire. The study aimed to develop a reliable fire assessment tool for practitioners and the developed framework demonstrated a satisfactory performance overly. In Sultan Mahmud et al. ( 2017 ), another comparative study was conducted for developing an intelligent fire detection system with early notification system in which data mining algorithms such as DTs, Bayesian networks (BayesNet), NNs, and SVM were used to develop data-driven classifiers using supervised learning. Moreover, the proposed smart fire detection system employed an edge detection model to analyze the data collected from the cameras to confirm the fire detection decision. In Huda et al. ( 2012 ), an AI-based framework was proposed to assess the thermal condition of electrical installations in buildings to prevent the potential of injuries and fire hazards using infrared images. Raw data was processed using PCA for features selection that are then used to develop an NN-based classifier to determine the condition of electrical equipment.

In Ouache et al. ( 2021 ), a fire safety assessment framework was proposed to help predict the potential fire impacts and recommending optimal fire intervention strategies in multi-unit residential buildings using NNs. Supervised learning was used to train a NN based on 5 predictors, among which are the mean of the initial fire detection (i.e., smoke detector, heat detector, visual, etc.), the action taken to fight fire (i.e., occupant response, fire department, BMS, etc.), and the performance of the BMS in fire detection and extension. The fire impact assessment covered several aspects, which are the occupant response to the incident, fire extension, fire damage, and financial losses. The proposed framework demonstrated a remarkable ability to predict fire impacts accurately, and it represented a promising solution to define and regulate fire safety strategies.

The security of the automation and management system in buildings has become more imperative due to the rapid advancement in the technologies used and the IoT systems. The industry predicts that the IoT market will grow from an installed base of 30.7 Billion devices in 2020 to 75.4 Billion in 2025 (IoT Security Foundation), which will expose them to increased risk of advanced attack vectors. According to Kaspersky Lab, nearly four in ten buildings were targeted by attacks in the first half of 2019 , and it is expected that the impact of cyberattacks on the building and construction industry will be significant in the coming years (Kaspersky). In Elnour et al. ( 2021 ), an attack detection framework for false data injection was proposed for a multi-zone HVAC system in office buildings utilizing an isolation forest (IF) algorithm. The operational data of the system’s sensor and control command signals were used to develop the detection model using semi-supervised learning. Isolation forests are characterized by the low computational requirement and capability to handle to complex and multi-variate data. They work based on pointing out anomalies using the concept of isolation, which improves the attack detection capability. Feature selection was applied to the raw data, and the study presented a comparative analysis of two models for feature reduction, which are PCA based model and a 1D-CNN-based model.

In de Assis et al. ( 2020 ), a security system for industrial IoT was proposed in which a CNN-based classifier was developed to identify distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in software-defined networks (SDNs). This system is based on supervised learning from the labeled network data of the IoT system. CNNs are advantageous for their high accuracy and classification performance, and powerful capability in realizing complex interdependency from multi-variate and sophisticated data. While in Aboelwafa et al. ( 2020 ), a residual-based attack detection framework was presented in which an NN-based auto-encoder was trained to profile normal system behavior. Then, non-conforming observations are identified as anomalies based on the generated residuals between the input and the output of the AE. Auto-encoders are used to learn the latent feature representation of the system using healthy operational data. They are also used for data dimensionality reduction, noise filtering, information retrieval, etc. In Yahyaoui et al. ( 2020 ), a preliminary demonstration of a ML-based intrusion detection system for data protection in healthcare centers was presented. An SVM model was developed using the labeled data of the IoT network and it demonstrated a promising performance in detecting malicious actions launched against the IoT system. The accuracy of the proposed framework was assessed based on the energy consumption in the communication network because attacks result in increased energy usage due to the increased network traffic. Table  7 highlights and compares existing AI-Big data analytics frameworks introduced to ensure security and safety in BAMSs.

3.5.8 Occupancy detection

Occupancy data are collected by various sensors and devices in buildings to help improve the efficiency of the BAMSs in terms of energy utilization and occupants’ comfort and well-being. These include cameras, infrared sensors, and carbon dioxide detectors (Sardianos et al. 2020 ; Sayed et al. 2022 ). The data can be directly used as inputs to control and regulate some of the buildings’ equipment, such as lights, air conditioning, doors, etc. Additionally, scholars and researchers utilize big data analytics to develop approaches for analyzing and processing building occupancy data to facilitate an efficient and reliable overall building management (Sardianos et al. 2020 ).

In Huang and Hao ( 2020 ), a DL-based visual recognition was used to implement an occupancy detection framework utilizing CNNs. The proposed approach was used to determine the number of people present and their location to help operate demand-based HVAC systems more reliably and efficiently. It was found that the proposed approach outperforms the conventional occupancy detection systems in terms of accuracy, precision, robustness, ability to provide occupancy count, and ability of static and dynamic occupancy detection. It also requires hardware and computational considerations as CNNs have a high computational overhead. In Acquaah et al. ( 2020 ), a study was presented to estimate the occupancy count based on thermal images using CNNs for feature extraction and SVM for multi-class classification. Two well-known CNN architectures were investigated, which are the 50 layers ResNet (ResNet-50) and AlexNet using transfer learning due to their superior performance in image processing (He et al. 2016 ; Krizhevsky et al. 2012 ). In Tien et al. ( 2021 ), a computer vision-based occupancy and equipment usage detection framework was proposed to facilitate a demand driven control of the HVAC system in an office room. A multi-class region-based CNN model was developed and deployed to analyze camera images. It can predict the occupancy count, activity type (i.e. sitting, walking, etc.), and equipment usage in real-time.

A thermal-based occupancy detection approach was presented in Zhao et al. ( 2018 ) in which data-driven models were developed using SVR and RNN to predict occupancy information using the building’s properties, including indoor temperature, towards managing energy use and security monitoring in intelligent buildings. That is, the interaction of the thermal components present in the conditioned space and the necessary part of determining thermal consistency is indicated by the indoor temperature. Supervised learning was used to train the ML models using simulation data generated from Energy Plus such that the target outputs were the occupancy count. The work in Elkhoukhi et al. ( 2020 ) combined the IoT technology and Big data analytics to implement real-time occupancy detection such that data of the indoor lighting, temperature, humidity, and \(\hbox {CO}_2\) levels were used to predict the status of the building occupancy. Two models were developed and tested, one using LDA and the other using vertical hoeffding tree (VHT) for offline and online occupancy detection, respectively. Additionally, in Fatema and Malik ( 2021 ), feature extraction and correlation analysis were performed on indoor sensors data (i.e., temperature, \(\hbox {CO}_2\) level, light intensity, humidity) and then particle swarm optimization was used to train an NN-based occupancy detection model. It demonstrated improved classification performance compared to conventional NNs optimized using the back-propagation algorithm.

In Wu and Wang, a ML-based model was proposed to improve the operation of the BAMS due to the shortcomings of infrared sensors for stationary occupancy. The model predicted the occupancy status based on multiple statistical features of the signals acquired by the infrared sensors. ML algorithms were investigated, among which SVM demonstrated the best performance due to its ability to capture complex and nonlinear functions, and its efficacy in handling high dimensional data. In Huchuk et al. ( 2019 ), a comparative analysis was presented for occupancy forecasting using ML algorithms based on thermostat data. The prediction model was intended to optimize the operation of the air conditioning system, such that both the present and the future occupancy information is taken into consideration. It was found that RF algorithm outperformed the LR, the Markov model, the hidden Markov model (HMM) and the RNN, which is based on the bagging technique in which multiple models on different subsets of the training dataset are developed, then their predictions are combined to conclude the final output of the RF model. However, occupancy forecasting is only dependable when the building does not exhibit rapid and random fluctuations in the user profile, which is generally the case for residential buildings.

In Razavi et al. ( 2019 ), a comparative study was presented for the utilization of supervised ML algorithms such as SVM, RF, KNN, and NNs to estimate and predict occupancy information in residential buildings based on power meters data. It was found that the reliability of occupancy prediction is lower for the larger forecast horizons. In Feng et al. ( 2020 ), a DL-based approach is proposed combining a CNN and a bidirectional LSTM network for occupancy detection in houses based on electrical data of advanced metering infrastructures (AMIs). The data essentially contain readings of electric current, voltage, and power that are processed by the CNN for spatial feature extraction. Using supervised learning, the extracted features are then fed to the BiLSTM network to solve a binary classification problem to identify the occupancy condition in real-time. The proposed framework demonstrated improved performance when compared to other ML and DL based models due to its ability to interpret the spatial and contextual features of the data. However, since detailed occupancy information are mostly not recorded and hence not available, supervised learning-based approaches that are based on such a detailing in the data (i.e., people count) can be impractical and difficult to implement using actual building data. While in Pešić et al. ( 2019 ), a LSTM network-based framework was proposed to perform occupancy detection and forecasting as well as data analytics based on Bluetooth positioning and WiFi utilization data of the IoT infrastructure in a multi-story residential building. The network data were pre-processed to extract the information of the occupancy of the apartments, then used to develop the LSTM network to predict and forecast occupancy condition and patterns in the different spaces of the building. The proposed work demonstrated the effective fusion of Bluetooth and WiFi data as well as the successful deployment of NN-based data analytics using wireless networks data for occupancy detection application. Table  8 summarizes the relevant AI-Big data analytics frameworks developed to detect occupancy profiles.

3.5.9 Water usage management

Almost all kinds of buildings are users of water, although the cost of water and sewer services varies from area to area and can become a significant expense. Worse, in areas where there is a shortage of water, it is not only a big expense, but an imperative to conserve. Therefore, it becomes of significant importance to bring the monitoring of water levels and switching points of all wet applications in buildings to the BAMS. Furthermore, water monitoring systems can benefit from the advancement of AI and ML technologies for improving their performance (Sun and Scanlon 2019 ). Typically, by harnessing the power of AI-big data analytics, it is possible to maximize information and data available and hence make better decisions while enhancing service delivery and reducing costs (Rahim et al. 2020 ).

In this context, using IoT water meters with wireless connectivity (Bluetooth, LoRaWAN, etc), it becomes relatively easy to install water meters within the building. These can be as simple as pulse style meters that can easily be integrated into a BAMS. Moving on, adopting AI-big data analytics to analyze data from water meters has become crucial for optimizing the management of water resources and sustaining growth and development. Accordingly, various AI-big data analytics frameworks have recently been proposed with the aim of (i) processing complex nonlinear water data, (ii) forecasting water demand, (iii) predicting water meter failures, or (iv) monitoring the quality and temperature of the water. Fig. 5 illustrates the flowchart of a water usage monitoring system used to detect water leaks and optimize water consumption (Jenny et al. 2020 ).

Flowchart of water usage monitoring system used to detect water leaks and optimize water consumption (Jenny et al. 2020 )

In Altunkaynak and Nigussie ( 2017 ), water demand prediction is conducted by first using multiplicative season algorithm (MSA) to extract pertinent information from water meter records and also capturing periodicity and converting nonstationary signals into stationary signals. Following, their output is fed into an MLP for accurately predicting water demand. The RMSE and Nash-Sutcliffe coefficient of efficiency have been adopted to evaluate the prediction performance of the learning model and its ability to extend prediction lead time. Shine et al. ( 2018 ), diverse ML models are used for predicting water consumption in an agricultural building based on analyzing data collected from a remote monitoring system. Thus, RF, ANN, SVM, and CART decision tree (CDT) algorithms were trained to predict water consumption, where a backward sequential variable selection was adopted for excluding variables adding low predictive power along with a hyper-parameter tuning with nested cross-validation for calculating the prediction accuracy for each model. In a similar way, in Smolak et al. ( 2020 ), three ML algorithms are implemented and compared for predicting water usage, i.e. RF, SVM, ARIMA. The water consumption data augmented with end-users occupancy patterns were used to improve the prediction accuracy. A novel approach to process and correlate between occupancy and water usage time-series was introduced. This framework was validated on 51 days of water consumption readings and over 7 million occupancy patterns from urban areas.

On the other hand, by using AI-big data analytics, it is also possible to monitor water quality and hence improve water resources management plans. In Chen et al. ( 2020 ), 10 ML models are deployed to water quality prediction (WQP). Specifically, DT, NB, LR, LDA, completely-random tree (CRT), KNN, SVM, RF, and deep cascade forest (DCRF) have been trained using water data from a hydro-electric power (HEP) plant, including pH, DO, CODMn, and NH3-N to forecast water quality. The precision, recall, F1 score, and weighed F1-score (wF1) have been selected to evaluate the prediction performance of the ML algorithms. In Roccetti et al. ( 2019 ), Roccetti et al. develop an ML-based classifier, which is personalized for predicting the failure of a water meter. Typically, an RNN model is deployed for (i) processing 15 million of readings collected from 1 million of mechanical water meters, and (ii) extracting relevant patterns representing the complex phenomenon of defective water meters. This has helped in achieving more than 80% accuracy in detecting failures.

In Wang et al. ( 2018 ), water demand of urban areas is predicted using gravitational search algorithm (GSA) and backtracking search algorithm (BSA) with ANN with regard to various weather parameters. While in Antunes et al. ( 2018 ), four ML models are selected to predict water demand, including ANN, RF, SVM and KNN, through the analysis of real-world data from two Portuguese water utilities. Moving forward, a weighted parallel strategy for combining multiple ML algorithms is introduced to improve the prediction performance. Moreover, additional data related to weather, seasonality, and feature extraction (forecast window of time-series data) are also analyzed. In Nasser et al. ( 2020 ), the water demand prediction is performed using an LSTM model based on analyzing data gathered from intelligent IoT water meters. A cloud platform has been used to store water consumption records, enabling near real-time data streaming and storing. The performance of LSTM has been then compared to those of SVR and RF. Similarly, in Du et al. ( 2021 ), Du et al. propose an LSTM model that combines discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and PCA to forecast daily urban water demand. Therefore, after smoothing the outliers of water demand time-series, noise components are removed using DWT and pCA. Following, the LSTM network is deployed to predict urban water demand using the outputs of DWT and PCA. Table  9 presents the main AI-Big data analytics frameworks proposed for water management in buildings.

3.6 Evaluation metrics

Evaluation metrics are used to measure the performance of the model in terms of the quality of its output as per what is expected. For AI applications, there are various types of metrics that can be used based on the subject matter. That is, the outputs of an AI model can take two forms, which are categorical variables (Cvars) and quantitative variables (Qvars). For instance, the outputs of classification models represent categorical variables in which the input data are classified into different groups or classes which are characterized by a unique label or value such as detection problems, recommender systems, etc. Each observation can be placed in a single category, and the categories are mutually exclusive. Hence, the performance of the model depends on its ability to correctly classify the observations to their respective categories/groups.

On the other hand, quantitative variables represent numerical values that exhibit quantitative characteristics. Regression models have quantitative variables as outputs such as forecasting and estimation models in which the AI model is used to represent the mapping between the independent variable(s)—i.e., the input(s)—and the dependent variable(s)—i.e., the output(s)—. In this case, the quality of the model is measured by the closeness of the model’s outputs to the ideal expected values. Table  10 presents a summary of the common metrics used to evaluate AI models.

4 Critical discussion and current challenges

A truly smart building combines a BAMS with intelligent data analytics software that offers helpful insights for maintenance, service, and efficiency opportunities. Typically, these tools together offer benefits for building owners, such as: (i) providing a high-level, system-wide big data capture of the entire operations, (ii) ensuring air quality control and a healthier building environment, (iii) saving energy and energy consumption during off-peak or low occupancy periods, (iv) eliminating waste from everyday system usage through intelligent sensor data, (v) offering guidance for performance improvements for individual assets, (vi) addressing equipment that really needs repair and not just those on a fixed schedule that don’t need to be serviced, and (vii) offering advanced automation capabilities and actionable results. In addition to these benefits, the cost savings related to the use of smart data analytics can be significant.

However, various gaps specific to each application field of AI-big data analytics are identified. Among them, more effort should be put to efficiently carrying out text analytics on operators’ work-order logs; and identifying (i) the information to derive, (ii) the text-mining methods to adopt, and (iii) the efficient approaches to convey the information to the operator and visualize it. Moreover, another challenging issue concerns the use of virtual metering, where a limited number of works were dedicated to virtual meter development (Kim et al. 2021 ; Wilcox 2020 ) despite its significance in helping operators for understanding plant-to-zone water and energy flows and ranking their operational decisions, such as identifying and evaluating faults.

The HVAC prognostic and failure prediction is another application that is still very challenging, where limited research activity was conducted to target this challenge. In fact, developing prognostics models is valuable for (i) predicting the time-to-failure, (ii) avoiding global failures in key BAMS components (e.g. boilers, chillers, pumps, fans, etc.), and preventing disruptions in building services. In addition, there are new challenges from emerging BAMSs that need to be addressed, e.g. data benchmarking, big data security and privacy, scalability and interoperability, real-time big data intelligence and knowledge transfer.

4.1 Data quality issues

Usually, raw data gathered from BAMSs can have some data quality problems, including (i) outliers, (ii) noise, (iii) inconsistent data, (iv) duplicate data, and (v) missing values. Data pre-processing techniques are deployed to overcome these issues, such as formatting, cleaning, and resampling. Formatting aims at converting the raw data into appropriate formats to ease the application of ML algorithms, while cleaning refers to removing or replacing missing samples (Zhang et al. 2021 ). Lastly, resampling can be applied based on the requirements of ML algorithms. Typically, it can be (i) a down-sampling to reduce data redundancy, foster the processing and improve the accuracy; or (ii) an up-sampling that helps increase the amounts of data to train data-hungry ML models, especially DL algorithms (Elnour et al. 2022 ). To that end, because of the high requirements for data quality set by ML models, developing novel strategies to improve the quality of BAMS recorded data by creating additional data with enhanced quality or augmenting existing datasets is a crucial challenge.

4.2 Data scarcity and data benchmarking

The different applications of BAMSs necessitate extensive historical data to train the AI-big data analytics, especially those based on DL algorithms before they can be used reliably. However, large-scale data might not be available for some reason or can not be recorded representatively and sufficiently in a short time when we study newly-built environments. Fortunately, the problems addressed within each specific AI-big data analytics task in BAMSs illustrate some similarities. This could be justified by the fact that the different application tasks, despite studying distinct problems, use the same data-driven algorithms which are validated on slightly similar datasets collected from different kinds of buildings and devices. This has opened opportunities for using knowledge transfer and transfer learning to overcome the lack of datasets in some situations, e.g. sports facilities.

On the other hand, collecting and benchmarking data represents the most significant challenge so far when applying AI-big data analytics in BAMSs, especially for the case of large buildings, i.e. sports facilities, commercial centers, industrial buildings. Many tasks require annotated datasets to train AI models and validate them. Indeed, developing and validating new data-driven algorithms require recording and annotating large-scale datasets, especially when using DL algorithms that are notoriously data-hungry (Kučera and Pitner 2018 ). Improving the performance of BAMSs does not rely only on the selection of AI algorithms but also on the quality and parameters of datasets used to train them.

For instance, labeled and accurate anomaly detection datasets are needed for developing new automatic anomaly detection solutions. Similarly, development and validation of occupancy detection algorithms require repositories of building occupancy profiles with concurrent ground-truth people counts. In this context, to further improve the performance of BAMSs, public and open-access datasets are needed for different application fields (e.g., load forecasting, anomaly and fault detection, demand response, occupant-centric controls, IEQ monitoring, water monitoring, etc.) for assessing the AI-big data analytics algorithms developed by the AI Community (Park et al. 2019 ; Francisco et al. 2020 ).

From another hand, successful sustainability strategies to overcome this issue could be via (i) incentivizing buildings/facilities managers for participating in benchmarking campaigns and surveys organized for different application fields, and (ii) encouraging the AI community in organizing data benchmarking competitions and challenges.

4.3 Security and privacy preservation

The nature of data collected in BAMSs introduces new challenges in data analytics, i.e. security and privacy preservation, in which traditional technologies can not deal with. Using encapsulated protocols and IP-based communication, BAMSs are more and more connected to corporate networks and also remotely accessed for management reasons, both for emergency and convenience purposes. However, security and privacy preservation have not been set as a primary concern when designing these protocols. Therefore, most of the BAMSs are being operated with sub-standard or non-existent security implementations, and mainly rely on ensuring security by obscurity. In this line, there has been recently a move to address the shortfalls of security and privacy preserving implementations in BAMSs (Stamatescu et al. 2020 ; Ashaj and Erçelebi 2020 ). However, the definition of the new threats against BAMSs, and identification of these threats is still a field that is exceptionally lacking.

Moreover, another critical concern about security in BAMSs is related to the fact that buildings’ data is valuable not only for managers and other BAMS competitors, as it is attached to the control of buildings’ equipment. Typically, it could be significantly critical to end-users if manipulated. To that end, sharing data in most BAMSs has limited the buildings’ intranet. Also, any attempts to extract this data to cloud data centers can result in severe security risks, considerably higher costs for the appropriate security systems or both (Lv et al. 2021 ; Himeur et al. 2022 ).

4.4 Scalability and interoperability

An important issue of BAMSs is the inherent lack of scalability and interoperability. This is because each BAMS manufacturer has its own proprietary data protocol that requires the development and maintenance of various processes and integrations. Moreover, BAMS vendors usually have competing products and thus are incentivized to make their data inaccessible to third parties (Png et al. 2019 ; Tang et al. 2020 ). Therefore, the interoperability is a legitimate concern for making efficient smart buildings as it refers to the ability of all the systems inside a building to communicate with one another. Specifically, with the actual proliferation of intelligent building technologies designed and manufactured by a plethora of companies, there is a need to make them communicate universally for promoting their deployment inside residential, commercial, industrial, and office buildings (Ozturk 2020 ; Miori et al. 2019 ). Put differently, as smart buildings need to meet energy and water efficiency, adequate indoor environmental conditions, high comfort levels, and economic goals set by building managers/users, they require the use of a highly-connected building automation system in which different parts can efficiently communicate with one another and adjust to changes in the environment. However, while numerous buildings are equipped with excellent systems, they often lack a combined monitoring system for lighting, climate control, water monitoring and blinds that could facilitate efficiency measures (Schachinger et al. 2017 ).

The BAMS community makes great efforts to develop and deploy communication protocols that ensure interoperability, such as Modbus, KNX, LonWorks, and Protocol 3964R (Merz et al. 2018 ). For instance, LonWorks and KNX are interoperable open standards as they can be used together. However, integration concerns may arise (Tang et al. 2020 ). The technologies’ popularity can hinder interoperability potential in BAMSs, as the example with LonWorks, the market leader in the United States. In contrast, KNX—widely used in Europe—has yet to impact (Merz et al. 2018 ). Additionally, the installation and operation costs can pose severe integration limitations. Indeed, many contractors or system integrators that provide off-the-shelf solutions are less concerned about whether the integration is successful.

4.5 Real-time big data intelligence

Collecting and analyzing data in real-time are of significant importance while designing powerful and efficient BAMSs. The first step towards this is by adopting a real-time sub-metering, which helps in tracking track utility costs by building region (floor, room, etc), by the tenants, by individual facility equipment (e.g., HVAC, lighting), etc. Therefore, granular utility sub-metering data provides the essential tools for monitoring energy costs/performance, water consumption/waste. This will result in accurately identifying usage anomalies, enabling data-driven portfolio analysis, etc. Although the value of real-time sub-metering is unquestioned, most of the BAMSs are still unable to provide the real-time data monitoring, which delays decision-making measures and hence reduces then the quality of efficiency and optimization operations.

5 Case studies

This literature review established several applications of AI big data analytics for buildings in terms of energy management, load forecasting, water management, FDAD, or IEQ monitoring. In this section, we present their deployment for energy-related applications given the continuous rise in energy consumption worldwide of the buildings sector under the global energy dilemma and the energy optimization potential of BAMSs, given the increasing concerns about energy efficiency in buildings. More specifically, the case studies handle two of the lead causes of energy waste in buildings, which are (i) system faults and equipment malfunctioning, and (ii) poor management and regulation of the buildings’ systems (Alsalemi et al. 2022 ; Elnour et al. 2022 , 2020 ). The first two case studies present strategies for energy anomaly detection that can be due to both or either of the former causes. They demonstrate the deployment of two different methods: unsupervised and supervised learning. The last case study presents the use of AI data analytics to establish reliable and efficient regulation of HVAC systems, given that those are considered major energy consumers in buildings (energy.gov, Elnour et al. 2022 ; Fadli et al. 2021 ).

5.1 Unsupervised AI-based energy anomaly detection

This section presents an example of using unsupervised ML algorithms for detecting abnormal energy consumption (Himeur et al. 2022 ). Therefore, four algorithms are considered, namely (i) OCSVM with linear kernel, (ii) OCSVM with Gaussian kernel, (iii) DBSCAN, and (iv) LOF. They have been applied on the Dutch residential energy dataset (DRED), which incorporates electricity consumption, occupancy patterns and ambient conditions of a typical household (in the Netherlands). Figure 6 portrays the scatter plot of energy footprints in which normal and abnormal patterns are identified using the aforementioned approaches. It has been clearly seen OCSVM (with linear kernel) detects more energy samples that fall outside the inlier region, which refer to consumption anomalies. While by using OCSVM (with a Gaussian kernel), the number of samples that fall inside the inlier region has been reduced because of its separation capability introduced by the hyperplane generated using the Gaussian kernel. From another side, LOF and DBSCAN help detect abnormal patterns with almost the same efficiency as OCSMV (with the Gaussian kernel), and only a slight difference has been registered in classifying a few numbers of samples.

Energy consumption anomaly detection in residential buildings using a) OCSVM with linear kernel, b) OCSVM with Gaussian kernel, c) DBSCAN and d) LOF

5.2 Supervised AI-based energy anomaly detection

Supervised ML algorithms excelled in detecting abnormal energy usage, although they require labeled energy data. To that end, in Himeur et al. ( 2021 ), a micro-moment-based approach is introduced to cluster energy footprints of an office building (at Qatar University) into five classes with reference to the energy consumption, occupancy patterns and appliance operation specifications. These classes are named ”class 0: good usage”, ”class 1: turn on appliance”, ”class 2: turn off appliance”, ”class 3: excessive consumption” and ”class 4: consumption while outside”. Following, an improved KNN model is developed and used to learn abnormal energy usage using this annotated data. Fig.  7 illustrates the flowchart of the micro-moment based scheme used to extract and learn intent-driven moments of energy consumption. Typically, energy micro-moment features MF are extracted based on analyzing occupancy profiles ( O ) and power consumption ( p ) of each device in reference to device active consumption range ( DACR ), device operation time ( DOT ) and device standby power consumption ( DSPC ). Then, the appliance operation parameters are called, including DACR , DOT and DSPC . Table  11 presents an example of different appliance parameter specifications that are used in the rule-based algorithm to extract power consumption micro-moments (Himeur et al. 2022 ).

Block diagram of the supervised ML solution used to detect abnormal energy consumption in office buildings

To have a clear view of how abnormal energy consumption is distributed over the time, the scatter plot of energy consumption profiles of a television is illustrated in Fig.  8 . Accordingly, the corresponding normal and abnormal energy patterns are detected using an IKNN model and micro-moment analysis. Because this approach uses a supervised learning with regard to occupancy data, it has the capability of identifying new consumption anomalies that correspond to the absence of the end-users when the television is on (this abnormality can be extended to other devices that require the presence of the user during their operation, e.g. the air conditioner, heater, fan, etc.). Detecting such abnormalities was not doable if an unsupervised ML model was deployed, in which only energy patterns were analyzed.

Scatter plot of energy micro-moments identified using IKNN (Himeur et al. 2021 )

5.3 Energy and performance optimization for sports facilities

In light of the increased global energy demand and its associated environmental impacts, the management and optimization of sports facilities are becoming imperative as they are characterized by high energy demand and occupancy profiles. This case study demonstrates the application of the model predictive control (MPC) theory and NNs for energy and performance management of sports facilities. Figure  9 presents the proposed NN-based MPC framework. The work is carried out using the building information model of a sports hall in the sports complex of Qatar University using EnergyPlus and practical data for model calibration. MPC systems are robust as they allow integrated dynamic optimization that accounts for the future system behavior in the decision-making process. NNs are advantageous for their ability to represent complex functions with high accuracy.

Block diagram of the NN-based MPC framework for sports facilities energy and performance optimization

The NN-based dynamic prediction model aims to express and capture the behavior of the building operation over time given its states x ( k ) (i.e., power usage, thermal comfort, indoor and outdoor air properties, etc.) and its inputs (i.e., HVAC system settings). The NN-based prediction model is:

and the prediction is computed by:

The optimization of the NN’s hyper-parameters was performed using the Bayesian optimization algorithm which keeps track of past iterations to find better choices for the next set of hyper-parameters to evaluate (Andonie 2019 ).

The MPC system consists of an optimizer and an NN-based prediction model of the building operation, and based on the system output \(y(k) \subset x(k)\) and its reference value r ( k ) (i.e., power usage and thermal comfort level), the HVAC system settings for temperature setpoints and dampers positions are determined (i.e., u ( k )) using numerical optimization to achieve tracking. When compared to routine performance, the proposed approach was able to achieve significant energy reduction and adequate thermal comfort levels as demonstrated in Fig. 10 . Energy savings of around 15% was observed, which was approximated by evaluating the relative change in the total energy consumption in the two settings for the scenario under study, that is, the relative difference between the areas under the two power curves in Fig.  10 a. Considerations about the NN model performance, tuning of the MPC settings, and optimization sub-optimality or failure are essential during the design and implementation phases of the proposed framework.

The performance of the NN-based MPC system for energy and performance optimization in the sports hall in Qatar University sports complex

5.3.1 Improved computational sustainability model for sports facility management

The computational urban sustainability platform (CUSP), developed at Cardiff University, is an immersive decision support tool built to deliver a powerful urban analytics and enable interactive monitoring and inform decision making through a web interface. It can be used to promote co-simulation across disciplines, and predict future scenarios towards a sustainable future operation and urban Intelligence [Computational Urban Sustainability Platform (CUSP)]. The CUSP model can be improved to include three integrated models, which are (1) energy-water efficiency, (2) health, safety, and wellbeing, and (3) comfort as demonstrated in Fig.  11 .

Block diagram of the improved CUSP model with efficiency-comfort-health model

The improved CUSP model integrates an energy simulation tool that is used to generate data of the particular scenario under consideration for data analytics for quality monitoring and planning purposes. It contains three AI-based models developed to assess each of the three aspects of the facility operation, which are efficiency and sustainability, health and safety, and users’ thermal satisfaction. Through the web interface shown in Fig. 12 , the integrated simulation tools will enable facility managers to evaluate the possible scenario in terms of the HVAC system settings, and occupancy and operation schedules towards achieving a reasonable trade-off between those three aspects prior to applying them in the facility.

The web interface of the expanded and improved CUSP platform with the three integrated models for efficiency, comfort, and health & safety

6 Future directions

6.1 multimodal data analysis.

Due to the advancement of today’s sensing and mobile technologies, various modalities of data can be easily and effectively gathered using different and advanced means. Thus, it is now possible to record and process big data about environmental satisfaction levels of buildings’ occupants in real-time and non-invasive manners (Plageras et al. 2018 ). Buildings’ end-users naturally react to ambient environmental conditions for minimizing any environmental stress, increasing their comfort based on their autonomic nervous systems and expressed by different poses, which can effectively influence different building operation parameters (Amato et al. 2018 ). Therefore, it becomes of utmost importance to develop tools for enhancing the interdisciplinary knowledge (i.e. AI, IoT, big data, DL, computer vision) when managing building operations. This helps significantly advance building indoor environmental control and sensing technologies as a function of human bio-signals (i.e. physiological signals) and poses.

Analyzing multi-modal data helps BAMSs in boosting workplace productivity and optimising office spaces, which in turn cutting costs and increasing revenues for companies. Moreover, data generated from these systems could be used to reduce the spread of viruses and other diseases inside buildings, increasingly important since the outbreak of Covid-19 (Sun and Zhai 2020 ). For instance, in Ding et al. ( 2020 ), investigate the collective contagion of the COVID-19 virus inside indoor environments (i.e. healthcare facilities and public vehicles) along with the engineering control against virus spread with ventilation systems.

6.2 In-situ sensor calibration in BAMSs

Sensors are key players in helping BAMSs to attain expected efficiency and automation. However, they are affected by continuous failures and degradation over time. To that end, in-situ sensor calibration plays a crucial role in calibrating different BAMS working sensors (i.e., physical sensors) and avoiding significant errors for reliable results when it is deployed to large-scale building sensor networks (Yu and Li 2015 ). Most of the studies opted for the conventional periodical calibration as a solution to overcome sensor degradation and failure; however, this is impractical and difficult for various sensors. By contrast, virtual in-situ calibration (VIC) can be a good alternative since it relies on mathematically extracting the characteristics of essential aspects involved in a calibration, such as the uncertainty quantification, benchmark establishment, and environment assessment (Yoon and Yu 2018 ). Moreover, because BAMSs need digitally enhanced data-rich environments, virtual sensors offer reliable and informative sensing contexts for operational datasets in BAMSs. More specifically, in-situ virtual sensors help develop the counterparts of target physical sensors in the field. Therefore, they can provide extra data related to residuals between physical and virtual sensors for for deployment in data-driven modeling, diagnostics and analytics (Koo et al. 2022 ).

6.3 Smart building digital twins

The increasing amounts of data generated by BMAMs, and the need for new methods to leverage it, have motivated scientists to investigate new strategies. One promising solution is using the digital twins (DT) paradigm, which assumes a complete cohesion and integration between the visual and physical worlds. Typically, DT can deliver considerable benefits to the BAMSs and the built environment in general by helping bring together static and dynamic data from various sources (in 2D/3D models) and assisting in making effective and informed decisions. Moreover, it combines the knowledge from the physical and digital worlds by collecting real-time data from the physical environments and provides a real-time understanding of buildings’ performance (Delgado and Oyedele 2021 ). Besides, despite the gradual exploration of digital twinning within the fields of building information modeling (BIM) and cyber-physical systems (CPS), available tools and techniques need to be considered in the next level of integration (technologies and procedures). This is to (i) provide DTs with more adaptability and more cohesion over the managed information and (ii) extract more value from our virtual models (Shahzad et al. 2022 ).

6.4 Transfer learning

Specifically, transfer learning has recently been proposed as solution that can be investigated for the case of buildings with poor information data (Himeur et al. 2022 ). Put simply, data and knowledge of already existing buildings (or old buildings) with rich energy usage records, water management data, occupancy patterns, IEQ monitoring footprints and and ambient environmental conditions can be used. Therefore, various frameworks have been introduced for target energy forecasting (Gao et al. 2020 ; Li et al. 2021 ), anomaly detection of energy consumption (Liang et al. 2018 ; Xu et al. 2021 ), fault diagnosis of energy systems (Liu et al. 2021 ; Zhu et al. 2021 ), HVAC fault detection (Dowling et al. 2020 ), IEQ monitoring (Tariq et al. 2021 ), indoor occupancy detection (Khalil et al. 2021 ), etc.

6.5 Blockchain

Due to the security and privacy issues that are still open in BAMSs, blockchain is considered as a promising solution that provides the digital trust. It can function as a permanent, cloud-based and digital ledger of activities between different users and partners (Nawari and Ravindran 2019 ; Liu et al. 2021 ). Also, blockchain can operate as a distributed, single source of shared truth and has the possibility of becoming the top-system for recording all transactions. Therefore, its deployment in BAMSs aims at (i) tracking and validating changes (e.g. security and surveillance, access control, etc.), (ii) monitoring HVAC activities, (iii) recording property transfers, and (iv) detecting occupancy patterns (Siountri et al. 2020 ). Additionally, it can help manage intelligent buildings and IoT devices with renewable energy, e.g. wind and solar. For example, suppose a facility is in a two-way energy communication with the grid. In that case, blockchain can make it more secure and easier to develop a digital record of energy-in and energy-out transactions (Tiwari and Batra). On another side, as the global market of building automation exceeds $120 billion, smart contracts can be utilized for automating warranties and providing refunds when IoT-connected devices or equipment do not perform as expected (Himeur et al. 2022 ).

Overall, there are numerous potential applications of blockchain in BAMSs, although the principal advantages are data is easy to access, is secure, and can not be corrupted. Specifically, data stored in the blockchain database can be easily and quickly reviewed, even though it is managed by distinct entities, which results in an accurate and fast data analysis (Nawari and Ravindran 2019 ). Moving forward, blockchain helps in streamlining processes and lowering costs through reducing and/or eliminating those dreaded manual operations, especially in public buildings, sports facilities, and commercial centers. This could be adapted to almost any process, including preventive maintenance, work orders, environmental health, and safety planning, and space management (Nawari and Ravindran 2019 ).

Only for energy management in smart buildings, blockchain has found diverse applications. For instance, in Van Cutsem et al. ( 2020 ), use a blockchain-based approach to cooperate energy management of multiple end-users in smart-buildings, where smart-contracts have been utilized to allow decentralizing community energy management. In Mukherjee et al. ( 2021 ), a smart energy management solution is safeguarded with blockchain and hence ensures judicious generation, uniform distribution and shielded monitoring along with guaranteed security and privacy of the havoc data. In Tiwari and Batra, blockchain is introduced for enabling the reparation of smart buildings-cyber physical systems. Moving on, decentralized and flexible access control using smart contracts is developed for smart and large commercial buildings in Bindra et al. ( 2021 ). This solution has been proposed as an alternative to inefficient, unsystematic, and human-intensive access control schemes usually used in these buildings. While the widespread implementation of blockchain is still a long way off, it is also challenging to deploy this technology reliably and widely in BAMSs. This research area needs to be further investigated in the near future. This promising new technology could benefit the other tasks of smart buildings, i.e. water management, IEQ monitoring, occupancy detection, etc.

6.6 Cyber-security standards for BAMSs

While using AI in BAMSs represents a powerful asset, it also presents some data security and privacy concerns and problems with the regulations. Typically, AI-driven BAMSs involve the deployment of lower-cost sensors (both wired and wireless) and the adoption of cloud, fog, edge, and/or hybrid computing architectures, increasing cyber risks. To that end, the need for a sound cybersecurity strategy has become crucial for promoting secure remote BAMSs. Data flows must be planned and monitored, possibly making it necessary to use one-way data diodes. On the other hand, BAMSs integrate heterogeneous sensing, computation, and control capabilities. They combine cyberspace with the physical world to develop cyber-physical systems. However, the security of BAMSs is significantly threatened by software/hardware failures and/or cyber/physical attacks. For example, sensor failures can engender false detection of abnormal energy/water consumption behaviors and result in actuator misbehavior.

To handle the above issues, privacy and security protection mechanisms should be enforced. This is possible by providing recommendations to the building automation community, e.g., the data protection directive 95/46/EC (Tokarski) suggests recommendations for supporting the security of the implementation of smart metering and smart using data controllers. Addressing these recommendations can enable moving to fully harmonized data protection environments and improving security measures in BAMSs. Moreover, different cyber security standards can be used to secure BAMSs by addressing the cybersecurity for operational technology in automation and control systems, such as ISA/IEC 62443 series (Bicaku et al.) and ASHRAE 135 series (BACnet) (Tang et al. 2020 ).

6.7 Self-learning for long-term building operation

Self-learning ML models are key to realizing the BAMS in the long-term building operation. The systems built upon these models have recently gained industry recognition and market share as they are based on using a ”user-friendly” technology (Cortiços 2019 ). Typically, self-learning, also called self-supervision, is an emerging technology that helps develop computationally efficient, low-cost, autonomous, and self-supervised ML algorithms (Kaklauskas et al. 2019 ). For example, for energy management, a self-learning control scheme assists in assessing the energy flexibility of buildings, in addition to guaranteeing robustness, scalability, and adaptability. Moreover, automated self-learning systems have promising perspectives when they are to integrate demand-response strategies for effective home-energy management systems (Bampoulas et al. 2019 ).

6.8 Edge analytics for BAMSs

With the advancement of BAMSs and the latest generation of IoT devices, data acquisition from multiple types of equipment has become much easier in today’s buildings. Real-time access to this data helps in better managing facility operations, sustaining efficiency, and lowering costs. However, as most BAMSs are only implemented using cloud computing, real-time data analysis may not be guaranteed. To overcome this issue, open software platforms hosted on edge nodes in close proximity to the building’s IoT devices can enable access to the building data and advanced analytics deployed on these platforms in real-time. In this context, edge computing employs the processing power of IoT devices for filtering, pre-processing, aggregating and storing recorded data, and actions can then be performed in real-time using adequate analytical algorithms. This is because edge computing enables resolving bandwidth and latency problems and reducing response time. Following, the filtered data could be transmitted to the cloudlet platforms for aggregation and enrichment, and running of complex analytics (Sharma et al. 2018 ).

Thus, various use cases where edge computing and the IoT can efficiently be utilized in BAMSs are emerging, among them fault diagnosis, which helps to (i) find patterns in sensor data representing equipment failures, anomalies, or degraded performance; (ii) detect abnormal energy consumption, e.g. if the lighting or HVAC systems are activated too early or operate too late with regard to the actual occupancy schedules; and (iii) identify correlations across different types of data, which are essential to infer the factors impacting energy consumption (e.g. the patterns related to weather, age of facilities, etc). Overall, open edge software platforms combine multi-protocol connectivity and the ability to aggregate data from multiple sources and facilitate the task of advanced analytics in turning this data into actionable information that can be used to improve the overall operational efficiency buildings (Petri et al.).

7 Conclusion

This paper carried out a comprehensive overview of the application of AI-big data analytics in BAMSs to conduct different tasks, including energy forecasting, fault and anomaly detection, water monitoring, and IEQ monitoring. The pros and cons of AI models within the unsupervised, supervised, semi-supervised, and reinforcement learning categories have been identified. Moreover, it concluded that supervised learning algorithms excelled well in performing the diver BAMS tasks, but their performance always relies on the availability of annotated data and its accuracy. Unsupervised learning models with no prior knowledge can address this issue with less efficiency.

It was demonstrated in this framework that technologies of ML, IoT, and new connectivity capabilities have a critical role in shaping the future of BAMSs. With building owners and facility managers focusing heavily on improving energy efficiency and increasing cost savings, features like advanced fault detection and diagnostics, energy analytics, IEQ monitoring, and water management are becoming critical. The growing interest devoted to developing intelligent analytics in BAMSs has been highlighted by the increasing number of works and studies proposed in the literature to address several challenges. In the coming years, data analytics is expected to expand the capabilities of intelligent building technologies, spurring further advancements in building automation systems and equipment standards while minimizing the environmental impact of commercial buildings.

The AI-big data analytics technology is up-and-coming to BAMSs. However, it faces various challenges for achieving market penetration, including legal, regulatory, security and privacy preservation, interoperability and scalability, and competition barriers. Additional research initiatives, investigations, projects, and collaborations should be considered a primary requirement for showing if the technology can reach its absolute power, prove its commercial viability, and lastly, be adopted in the mainstream.

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Abbreviations

Asynchronous advantage actor-critic

Actor-critic

Auto-encoder

Air handling unit

Advanced metering infrastructures

Artificial neural network

Auto-regressive

Adaptive Boosting

Bagged auto-associative kernel regression

• Building automation and management system

Bayesian belief networks

Bootstrap bagging of regression trees

Binary decision tree

Bagged echo state network

Binary multiclass-classification decision tree

Bayesian networks

Bagging neural network

Back propagation neural network

Bagged regression tree

Backtracking search algorithm

Bagged tree

Bidirectional long short-termmemory

Compound annual growth rate

Classification and regression tree

Closed-circuit televi-sion

CART decision tree

Coupled input and forget gate

Convolutional neural network

Cyber-physical system

Conditional restricted Boltzmann machines

Conditional random fields

Compact regression Gaussian process

Completely-random tree

Computational urban sustainability platform

Convolutional LSTM

Deep belief network

Density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise

Deep cascade forest

Deep deterministic policy gradient

Distributed denial of service

Deep feed forward neural networks

• Deep learning

Deep neural networks

Deep Q-learning

Dutch resi-dential energy dataset

Deep reinforcement learning

Decision tree

Discrete wavelet transform

Ensemble bagging tree

Extreme learning machine

Fuzzy C-means

Factored conditional restricted Boltzmann machines

Feed-forward neural network

Generalized additive models

Gradient boosting machine

Gradient boosting regression tree

Generalized linear regression model

Gaussian process regression model

Gated recurrent units

Gravitational search algorithm

Generated sampled data

Hierarchical cluster analysis

Hydro-electric power

Hidden Markov model

Heating ventilation and air conditioning system

Information and communication technology

Indoor environmental quality

Isometric feature mapping

K-nearest neighbors

Kernel principal component analysis

Linear discriminant analysis

Local outlier factor

Linear regression

Logistic regre-ssion

Least squares support vector regression

Long short-term memory

Monte Carlo

Multi-class support vector machines

Multiple discriminant analysis

Multidimensional scaling

Multi-layer perceptron

Multiple linear regression

Model predictive control

Multiplicative season algorithm

Metaheuristic firefly algorithm

Naive Bayes

Non-intrusive load monitoring

Neural network-based-supervised auto-encoder

Neural network

One-class support vector machine

Principal component analysis

Policy gradient

Partial least square

Proximal policy optimization

Quadratic discriminant analysis

Quantile regression

Regression binary decision tree

Radial basis function neural network

Restricted Boltzmann machines

Random forest

Regression fitting

Reinforcement learning

Recurrent neural networks

Regression tree

Deep residual network

Memory-gated RNN-based autoencoders

Sparse autoencoders

Seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average

State-action-reward-state-action

Software-defined networks

Stepwise Gaussian processes regression

Semi-supervised learning

Semi-supervised neural network

Support vector machine

Support vector regression

Tradi-tional reinforcement learning

Truncated singular value decomposition

Text-to-speech

Variational autoencoders

Vertical hoeffding tree

Water quality prediction

Extreme gradient boosting machine

EXtreme gradient boosting

Multip-licative LSTM

t-Distributed stochastic neighbor embedding

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