BRICK is an open-source community-driven ontology standard for standardizing semantic descriptions of physical, logical, and virtual assets in buildings and the relationships between them. Using Semantic Web (RDF/OWL) technology, BRICK enables interoperability across building management systems.
BRICK v1.4.4 (released May 2, 2024)
- SHACL-based ontology validation
- Expanded modeling for meters and entity properties
- Quantity definitions updates
- Extensible Dictionary - standardized terms and concepts for buildings
- Relationships - connections for linking and composing building concepts
- Flexible Data Model - integration with existing tools and databases
- HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning)
- Lighting systems
- Fire safety
- Security systems
- Energy metering
- Sensors and control points
- Reduce cost of deploying building analytics
- Enable cross-vendor integration of building subsystems
- Simplify development of smart building control applications
- Standardize unstructured labels in building management systems
- Support IoT and energy efficiency initiatives
All BRICK Schema resources are maintained at github.com/BrickSchema
- Ontology URI:
https://brickschema.org/schema/Brick - Prefix:
brick:
pip install brickschema