Extracting business-intelligence from integrated building and environmental systems: A working model

Birmingham City University (BCU) is in the 7th year of a 9 year new multi-campus development building scheme worth £250m. This paper discusses how technology-systems within the new campus buildings are being used to gather information on patterns of usage and in-turn shape services and target resources. Such systems include access-control, building management and power management systems, wireless-services and room-booking and student attendance monitoring systems. All of the buildings' systems previously mentioned are discussed within this paper; and the context and value of the data and information they provide and contribute to BCU's operations.