ONUMA Web Feature Service™

What you can do with ONUMA Web Feature Service™

• Make data in OPS™ available to other web services.
  • With proper privileges you can access OPS™ without using the OPS™ interface
• Query geographic information, location based data.
  • Query a geographic area for BIM and other data.
  • Query building data available in a 10 block area?
  • Specify a latitude and longitude bounding box area to get resulting data.
  • Use a graphical map user interface to draw a box around a geographic area based on OGC standards, and get the resulting data.
• Open Geospatial Consortium standards based.
  • Make data available at a global level.

ONUMA, Inc. has implemented Web Feature Services (WFS) to provide access to the data on the ONUMA Planning System™. This is based on open standards established by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). This functionality allows for linking to and from other solutions based on open standards. OGC has over 300 members worldwide that include other software vendors, government agencies and the commercial sector.

ONUMA, Inc. joined the OGC in October of 2006 and particpated in a pivotal role in the OGC Web Services Phase 4 testbed project. OGC's CAD/GIS/BIM thread aims to develop and demonstrate a framework of interoperability across the lifecycle of building and infrastructure investment involving design, construction, and operation and decommissioning.

ONUMA, Inc. provided the ONUMA Planning System™ as a WFS for BIM and as a BIM editor. The unique position of ONUMA, Inc. allowed us to participate in this first of a kind demonstration of linking BIM to GIS using OGC standards.

Functionality of the ONUMA WFS™

• Get Capabilities
  • Tells the client how to communicate with the WFS, what feature types are available on the server and what transactions are available. It would say, "I have buildings at this site and here's how you query them."
• Describe Feature Type
  • Describes the structure of any feature type it can service. Returns schema for requested type name.
• Get Feature
  • I have these three buildings at this site query would return enough of a subset of its schema elements to distinguish one building from another and summary data, but leave out every little detail for every floor and room (data for each space, space name, sqft, space number, index, etc)
• Catalog
  • Lists authorized data within a bounding box of a geographic area with links to that data.
• Get GML Object
  • Delivers a City GML version of buidlings that can be opened in OGC compliant viewers such as Land Explorer.
• Get IFC Object
  • Delivers an IFC BIM file that can be opened in IFC tools.
• Post IFC Object
  • Posts an IFC file back to the WFS.

The Catalog lists BIM IFC and City GML data that is available in a bounding box. Users can use a get request to retrieve data through an http request.

The ONUMA Inc. Client can get the IFC data edit it and post it through an http post back to the ONUMA WFS™ to complete a transaction.

OWS 4 Test Bed Demonstration

This was demonstrated at the OWS 4 Test Bed Demonstration at Newark, New Jersey on December 7-8, 2006.

Open Geospatial Consortium Open Web Services Initiative 4

Integrating AEC Workflows with OGC Open Web Services

On Dec. 7th and 8th a live demonstration was held at the New York Port Authority Emergency Operations Center.

ONUMA, Inc. was part of this demonstration to show the capabilities of the ONUMA Planning System (OPS)™ as a Web Feature Services server and as a BIM editor client. This is the first time that BIM data was made integral to the OGC demonstrations.

The OGC OWS 4 demonstration illustrated how many types of users working with various types of tools can all view and edit data using common OGC standards. The result is that each user can look at the data from their own perspective and not need to know where the data is coming from or how to use the software that created the data. For example the Building Information Modeling tools can create data in IFC format that describes the geometry of a building and the associated attributes of specific spaces. Viewers accessing data about the building may only want to view specific data such as which spaces in the building have air conditioning. Through the OGC standards and using Web Feature Services WFS, the viewer can access this data.

The scenario is a dirty bomb in the Newark New Jersey Port. 10 people in the port are killed and radiation threatens the surrounding area.

OGC standards based systems are used to demonstrate how different systems can be used to respond to this scenario.

Radiation sensors pick up high radiation levels. These sensors are linked to the internet and send an alert of their location and status through

General Services Adminstration (GSA) space attributes were part of the data that was made available on the ONUMA WFS™. The GSA Attributes are integral to the GSA-OPS™.