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Centre for Digital Built Britain completed its five-year mission and closed its doors at the end of September 2022

This website remains as a legacy of the achievements of our five-year foundational journey towards a digital built Britain
 
Read more at: Ancillary Sensing for Building Information Modelling: Current Practice and Future Research

Ancillary Sensing for Building Information Modelling: Current Practice and Future Research

The goal of this project is to develop two separate current frameworks for practice, policy and future research under the umbrella theme of ancillary (additional) sensing for BIM. Ancillary sensing in the context of BIM concerns drawing new sources of useful information into common data...


Read more at: IOT Network Behaviours and Dependencies

IOT Network Behaviours and Dependencies

This project initiated some baseline data gathering and primary analysis of the ways in which off-the-shelf IOT sensors are going to generate and distribute data, the services they will invoke, and the infrastructure dependencies that will thus be taken by deployment and use of such sensors and...


Read more at: Crowdsourcing Data in Mining Spatial Urban Activities

Crowdsourcing Data in Mining Spatial Urban Activities

This project aims to understand how check-in data from social media is distributed around Cambridge and what kinds of spatial segmentation can be identified. It validated the social media data on urban segregation using observation and questionnaires. We conducted pilots at Cambridge in the UK and...


Read more at: Exploiting traffic data to improve asset management and citizen quality of life

Exploiting traffic data to improve asset management and citizen quality of life

This project builds on a tool developed by two Cambridge PhD students that allows for the generation of high-resolution geographical data heat maps. These heat maps can help to solve optimisation problems relevant to citizens’ everyday lives. Specifically, we investigate how the interdependence...


Read more at: Cambridge Living Laboratory Research Facility

Cambridge Living Laboratory Research Facility

Our Challenge CDBB’s vision of the future involved buildings and infrastructure that are “smart”, capturing data about performance to predict when maintenance would be needed, understand how users are engaging with the services they provide and ensure that they are as efficient, sustainable and...


Read more at: Publication: Developing a Digital Twin at Building and City Levels: Case Study of West Cambridge Campus

Publication: Developing a Digital Twin at Building and City Levels: Case Study of West Cambridge Campus

14 May 2020

screenshot_2020-08-14_at_16.41.50.png Abstract A digital twin (DT) refers to a digital replica of physical assets, processes, and systems. DTs integrate artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics to create living digital simulation models that are able to learn and update from multiple sources as well as...


Read more at: Publication: DeepDish: Multi-Object Tracking with an Off-the-Shelf Raspberry Pi

Publication: DeepDish: Multi-Object Tracking with an Off-the-Shelf Raspberry Pi

27 April 2020

screenshot_2020-08-18_at_15.48.55.png Abstract When looking at in-building or urban settings, information about the number of people present and the way they move through the space is useful for helping designers to understand what they have created, fire marshals to identify potential safety hazards, planners to speculate...


Read more at: Publication: CoLearn: enabling federated learning in MUD-compliant IoT edge networks

Publication: CoLearn: enabling federated learning in MUD-compliant IoT edge networks

10 April 2020

screenshot_2020-08-18_at_15.18.54.png Abstract Edge computing and Federated Learning (FL) can work in tandem to address issues related to privacy and collaborative distributed learning in untrusted IoT environments. However, deployment of FL in resource-constrained IoT devices faces challenges including asynchronous...


Read more at: Publication: Moving from building information models to digital twins for operation and maintenance

Publication: Moving from building information models to digital twins for operation and maintenance

28 January 2020

screenshot_2020-08-14_at_16.01.11.png Research background Abstract: With the rising adoption of building information modelling (BIM) for asset management within the architecture, engineering and construction sectors, BIM-enabled asset management during the operation and maintenance phase has been increasingly attracting...


Read more at: Publication: A Neural Ordinary Differential Equations Based Approach for Demand Forecasting within Power Grid Digital Twins

Publication: A Neural Ordinary Differential Equations Based Approach for Demand Forecasting within Power Grid Digital Twins

23 October 2019

screenshot_2020-08-14_at_16.26.55.png Abstract Over the past few years, deep learning (DL) based electricity demand forecasting has received considerable attention amongst mathematicians, engineers and data scientists working within the smart grid domain. To this end, deep learning architectures such as deep neural...