Model the internal systems of devices and equipment such as the air flow, heating and cooling systems of an Air Handling Unit for building HVAC systems. Derive a digital twin from the modeled systems to provide real-time actionable insights to optimize performance.
Design BEAMable systems based on a common Product Model and shared Building Ontology to unify Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Building Automation Systems (BAS). Model connections between HVAC and lighting subsystems to create a digital twin for an entire built environment that can optimize building operations and equipment maintenance.
Extend BEAMable systems from buildings to mission-critical municipal systems and autonomous vehicles with real-time information exchange that improves public safety and convenience while optimizing city infrastructure. Businesses, devices, buildings, and humans modeled as BEAMable systems and subsystems can dynamically connect and interact in real-time, forming a complete, interdependent and interoperable city ecosystem.
With the Personal Portal, airport shoppers can check into stores using their smartphones, order food and services, and make payments without touching Point-of-Sale devices. BEAMable retail systems streamline the in-store shopping experiences when passenger safety is a priority and every minute counts before departure.
BEAM-powered Baggage Management can replace disparate and isolated airline enterprise applications and systems with a single solution to better handle smart baggage across the airline and aviation ecosystems. These real-time, interoperable systems can reduce the instances of delayed, damaged and lost bags; track baggage location and weight changes to prevent theft and loss; and improve customer satisfaction through real-time status updates.
BEAM-powered building equipment and edge gateways are able to work well with each other, enabling much more than analytics dashboards. Any door sensor can trigger any light to turn on – regardless of the device manufacturer. And any HVAC unit can trigger a service request or trigger an order for a replacement air filter. The ontology-based event-driven architecture supports business and device processes and eliminate the cost and complexity of custom systems built around the proprietary middleware of system integrators.
Remote control and an intelligent edge can make traveling, working, and shopping smarter, safer, and more convenient. The Personal Portal supports a continuum of dynamic digital life experiences to reduce stress and increase spend.
Eliminate the need to install a smartphone app for every in-location experience. BEAM a personalized, branded app upon entering any airport concession or service location.
The BEAM API can be implemented within every network node as the single entry point for all real-time streaming data and messages from other nodes. By exposing a single common API as the “front door” for all nodes, the complexity of disparate systems is abstracted away.
The BEAMable Commerce Ontology blends commerce concepts and semantic identifiers from schema.org, gs1.org, unece.org, and omg.org to enable interoperable e-commerce and supply chain management systems across industries.
BEAMable device and system models provide a holistic information pool that enables automation of many life cycle tasks from design to commissioning and operation.
Embed the BEAM RT runtime system as the device engine and the digital twin can monitor and model every part of the production process to identify where quality issues may occur.
Use digital twins to monitor equipment health from real-time sensor measurements, predict failures, and perform condition-based maintenance and repairs at the exact moment it's needed, prior to failure. BEAM Events continually refine and update system processes.
A digital twin starts with product design. Simply model a device as a product subclass based on the BEAMable Commerce Ontology. Then model its internal systems based on the BEAMable System Model. When the product is built with an embedded BEAM RT runtime system, the products instances become assets with a built-in digital twin.
A BEAM Event is an irreducible unit for managing information. It is ideal for distributed state management supporting digital twins. This time-stamped canonical data model incorporates identifiers for asset classes, attributes, and instances, providing real-time actionable insights in a standardized format. BEAM events are also used to define and update any class of entity, including BEAMable systems and models.
With a tiny footprint, BEAM RT™ portable runtime system provides the needed architecture for edge-to-cloud computing. The runtime supports a dynamic ecosystem of BEAMable systems for a truly interoperable and autonomous edge that simply scales. BEAM events are produced and consumed by the Runtime’s Message Processor. The Runtime is continually sensing, computing, and acting in real-time.
BEAMable ontologies are based on an Entity Model that provides a hierarchy of cross-domain classes. Each class represents a general category of like entities with common attributes. Collectively, these classes represent physical entities, information entities, and ontology entities themselves. The Entity Model is abstracted away from any object-oriented programming language (e.g., Java).
Design Principles ＞BEAMable systems and entity state are stored and distributed as BEAM Events, where each event describes an attribute of an entity at a point in time. This time-stamped atomic event model incorporates decentralized identifiers from a common ontology and offers a simplified, temporal, machine-optimized alternative to OWL ontologies and RDF statements.
Atomic events representing basic statements of fact are appended to an event-driven system's knowledge base, serving as the authoritative source of data. This enables intelligent services to recognize patterns and build previous, current, and predicted states from a consistent source of historic events.
The Ontology Model blends concepts from w3.org and models itself along with all top-level classes and domain-specific subclasses. The metadata representing ontologies are maintained in a distributed event ledger.
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This unified system-centric ontology can model businesses, devices, and humans as systems and subsystems that connect and interact in real-time, forming a complete, interdependent and interoperable ecosystem.
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This common ontology blends commerce concepts and semantic identifiers from aci.aero, schema.org, gs1.org, tmforum.org, and omg.org to enable interoperable e-commerce and supply chain management systems across industries.
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This common ontology blends travel concepts and semantic identifiers from aci.aero, opentravel.org, and schema.org to enable interoperable transporation and hospitality systems.
This common ontology blends healthcare concepts and semantic identifiers from HL7.org, himss.org, bluetooth.com, and omg.org to enable interoperable personal health information and monitoring systems.
This common ontology blends concepts and semantic identifiers from project-haystack.org, brickschema.org, and buildingsmart.org to enable interoperable building automation systems (BAS) and building information modeling (BIM).
The runtime’s Message Broker routes all inbound and outbound BEAM messages, including BEAM events that are produced and consumed by the Message Processor.
A BEAM Event is an irreducible unit for managing information. It is ideal for highly distributed environments such as a supply chains, airports, or cities.
The runtime's Message Processor runs cached processes of BEAMable systems. It reacts to state changes transmitted in BEAM events by producing new events.
BEAM RT™ is a disruptive, model-first approach to distributed system architecture. It is an irreducible framework for processing BEAMable™ systems.
BEAMable™ systems and processes are continually refined and updated by distributing BEAM events to far-edge microcontrollers and near-edge gateways.
BEAM events are appended to a distributed event ledger, which acts as an atomic system of record and provides a complete audit trail of entity state changes.
