ITU-T Recommendations

Buildings are one of the major key city assets and it is important to effectively and easily manage building infrastructure in order to realize a sustainable city. A number of pieces of equipment exist at building infrastructures, and building infrastructure management systems are separately utilized for dedicated infrastructure management services in terms of efficiency, safety and sustainability. Buildings may have different management systems depending on the type of facility, such as firefighting management systems, energy management systems, electrical safety management systems and building automation systems. The different management systems use the separate identification method, so the different methods may cause inefficiency and inconvenience for managing the many pieces of equipment at the building. In order to realize a sustainable city, it is important to efficiently manage a number of pieces of equipment within a city. By allocating identifiers to the equipment in buildings, the city asset management system in a sustainable city can improve their manageability.
Recommendation ITUT L.1632 defines the identification method for equipment at the building infrastructure which improves the manageability and interworking between facilities at the building. The identification method includes the identifier structure and identifier management procedure which are easily recognizable, understandable mapping between identifier and device, and consistency in the equipment category. The identification method defined in this Recommendation is used within a building infrastructure and can be operated in conjunction with the city-level identification system that uniquely identifies the city assets such as buildings, energy resources, etc. Therefore, it can help realize a sustainable city.