The Gateway to Integrating User Behavior Data in “Cognitive Facility Management”

Abstract

In the face of current predicaments of facility management (FM), the concept of cognitive FM is proposed with a view to providing active intelligent management of a facility. In order to achieve such cognitive FM, how to integrate user behavior data into a cognitive FM system has to be solved. This paper serves as method guidance for it by putting forward the idea that location can serve as a gateway for the integration. Ultra-wideband (UWB) is recommended as the device layer to construct the 3D local positioning system for the cognitive FM system after comparison between different local positioning technologies from the accuracy, scalability, and cost dimensions. The way to bridge the user behavior data with facilities through coordinate transformation and location/distance computation is briefly introduced. Such of a uniform 3D coordinate system with high accuracy and scalability for FM situation can provide a common language for communication and computational applications. Finally, application scenarios for various facilities such as commercial building, office building, hospitals, warehouses, airports, and transportation stations are discussed.