An Event-driven Agent-based Approach to Support Operation and Maintenance of Complex Buildings

Current legislation about the management of public work contracts through electronic information modelling provides structured information that enables advanced and efficient approaches for operation and maintenance of buildings. This paper suggests and showcases an agent-based system architecture, that embeds Bayesian Networks as inference engines and event-driven query agents to pinpoint failures, allowing high scalability and adaptability across building types. This is another step towards the implementation of cyber-physical systems that can deal with complex domain. Finally, the proof of concept was executed in the case of event-driven maintenance applied to a middle-sized hospital.