1. Denise McKenzie Executive Director 23 May 2017
Open Geospatial Consortium and buildingSMART International: A Partnership in Standards
Denise McKenzie
Executive Director
23 May 2017
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2. The Open Geospatial Consortium
Not-for-profit, international voluntary consensus standards organization; leading development of geospatial standards
500+ industry, government, academic, research and NGO members worldwide
Social and technical forum to align interests in standards and best practices
40+ freely available standards
Supporting best practices
Thousands of product implementations
Broad user community implementation worldwide
Alliances and collaborative activities with many SDOs and professional associations
Established in 1994
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4. History & Context
Geospatial, Civil Engineering & BIM come perfectly together in the Urban environment and are destined to work together
Graphics: OGC
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History & Context
Identified loss of information in the build workflow
Opportunity to bring together CityGML and IFC and pilot the interoperability arrangements
It’s the people, stupid!
Planning
Conceptual
Designs
Detailed
Design
Construction
Operate & Manage
Use!
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6. An OGC Framework for Smart Cities
“OGC Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework”
Influenced by:
OGC’s geospatial, sensor, processing, mobile standards work
Survey of Smart City Standards Activities:
JTC 1, ITU, ISO, BSI, DIN, others
Survey of OGC CityGML implementations
Goals:
Pilot Smart Cities Spatial Framework in select cities (
Advance an OGC Best Practice for Location Enabled Smart Cities
OGC Smart Cities Spatial Information Framework

7. Future City Pilot, Phase 1
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FutureCities Pilot
Coordinated effort between OGC and buildingSMART International
Seeking sponsors, most of work is intended to occur in Europe
Pilot will demonstrate and enhance the ability of cities to use diverse, interoperating spatial technologies to deliver improved quality of life, civic initiatives, and resilience
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9. Future City Pilot (FCP), Phase 1
OGC in collaboration with bSI
Accelerate standards process, requirements based
6 month project
Pilot interoperability arrangements in Geo and BIM
Quid IFC and CityGML?
House rules:
Pre-market conditions
Non competitive
Non operational environment
Research
In an interoperable environment using Open Standards
Not the first time we do model validation: AECOO, OWS-4 in 2006
Standards don’t make themselves
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Scenario’s
Static 3D city models are ‘easy’ to make
Maintaining a city model is harder
Need for validation of new components of the model
Model validation
Parts of a city planning tools
Graphics: IGN France
Graphics: Steve Liang, University of Calgary
Not the first time we do model validation: AECOO, OWS-4 in 2006
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Scenario’s
Integration of city information with Dynamic model
Goal: reduce winter death (urban services)
Building humidity is related to illness
Integrate sensor readings with city model
Using CityGML and Sensor Web Enablement : “Dynamizer”
Not the first time we do model validation: AECOO, OWS-4 in 2006
Graphics: Greenwich and OSGB
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Scenario’s
Climate Change will flood more cities
Disasters Management / prevention
Model how cities flood using the 3D city model
UK, Doncaster, source: wikipedia
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13. The Visionary Sponsors
Ordnance Survey Great Britain,
Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona), Spain,
Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière (IGN) France
virtualcitySYSTEMS GmbH Berlin
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Participants
Remote Sensing Solution
Monrovia CA, USA
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
University of Munich
Munich, Germany
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Summary
Geo & BIM in action in an interoperable environment using open standards
Model validation, Sensors in 3D City Models, 3D City Models for flooding modelling
IFC – CityGML interaction
WFS for serving IFC and CityGML
Use of 3D City Database
Use of WPS for IFC/CityGML translation and Model validation
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Next Steps in FCP1
Capture knowledge in Engineering Reports
Detailed and Technical
Shared in OGC and bSI
Further dissemination to the written press
Demonstration Video
3 minute summary available on Youtube at ogcvideo
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Plans for FCP2
Run in 2017
Also in the Geospatial, Civil Engineering & BIM
Requirements are coming in
Worldwide scope
Include Indoor & Facility Management
VR, AR?
Interested to sponsor or participate?
Let me know!
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Upcoming Activities
Testbed 14
Underground CDS
Location Powers: Underground (more information at locationpowers.net)
Land Administration Domain Model Review
OGC Technical Committee Meeting September 2017,
UK & Ireland Forum
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How to get involved?
Become a member of an SDO (OGC, buildingSMART, W3C)
Ask for your solutions to be “open” standards compliant
Join the OGC UK & Ireland Forum
Visit us at the Technical Meetings in September
Don’t be passive, be part of standards innovation!
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20. Data is more valuable as a shared resource
Standards make this sharing possible
When apps implement standards, “citizen science” creates better data and better metadata. Enhancing citizen scientists’ real value enhances their love of science.

21. Standards should be driven by innovation and achieved through collaboration
The Standards of organisations such as the OGC belong to all

22. Denise McKenzie OGC Outreach +44 7581118189 dmckenzie@opengeospatial
Denise McKenzie OGC Outreach