Providing route guide using building information modeling (BIM) data

• US 9,939,274 B2
• Filed: 02/13/2014
• Issued: 04/10/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Nishimura, Yasutaka, Tada, Masami, Takajo, Akihiko, Tashiro, Takahito
• Primary Examiner(s): Do, Truc M
• Application Number:
  US14/765,028
• Publication Number:
  US 20150369612A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,517 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/206 specially adapted for indoor navigation
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3484 Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles

Abstract

Providing a route guide to a destination using building information modeling (BIM) data. A request from a user for a route guide to a destination in a building is received. BIM data for the building, security information for a route, and a user profile of the user that requested the route guide to the destination is received. A route guide to the destination in the building is created, based at least on the BIM data, security information, and the user profile. Creating the route guide may be further based on use restriction information, including time, weight, operation, impassable information, information related to the method of using the facility equipment, or precaution information when using the facility equipment. The route guide may include a method of using the facility equipment in the building, a method of operating, a direction of operation, a method of unlocking or locking, or precaution information.

Claims

1. A system for providing a route guide using building information modeling (BIM) data, the system comprising:

one or more environmental sensors; and

a computer coupled to the one or more environmental sensors;

the computer operated to;

receive, from a user terminal device, a request for a route guide to a destination in a building;

receive BIM data for the building, including material properties of the elements that compose the building, wherein the material properties of the elements that compose the building are one or more material properties selected from a list consisting of;

ease of slipping when wet, earthquake resistance, and flame retardancy base values;

receive security information for a route, real-time information for building status, and a user profile;

create a route guide to the destination in the building, based at least on the BIM data, security information, real-time information for building status, and the user profile;

receive, from the one or more environmental sensors, information indicating that an environmental event has been detected;

receive, from the user terminal device, its current position; and

update the route guide from the user terminal device'"'"'s current position based on the environmental event, and the material properties of the elements that compose the building that are related to the environmental event.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein the one or more environmental sensors are one or more environmental sensors selected from the list consisting of:

a weather observation device, a temperature monitoring device, can earthquake detecting device, and a fire detecting device.

3. A system according to claim 1, wherein the environmental event is an environmental event selected from the list consisting of:

rain, fire, and an earthquake.