Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is a wide-ranging civil rights law within the United States that prohibits, under certain circumstances, discrimination based on disability.
Application programming interface (API): A description of the way a piece of software asks another piece of software to perform a service.
Building automation system (BAS): Building automation system (BAS) is a control system that consists of devices used to monitor, control and manage mechanical and electrical systems within a building (ASHRAE 2010).
Building Information Spatial Data Model (BISDM): A committee was formed in late 2007 as a
community of interest focused on creating a GIS data model for buildings. BISDM is a volunteer organization dedicated to providing a collection of best practices, case studies and templates that individuals can adopt or adapt to their specific project needs.
Building information model (BIM): Building information modeling is a structured data set that describes a building (NBIM 2007). The data within a BIM often includes a three-dimensional computer model and a database (Fallon 2008).
Computer aided design (CAD): Use of computer technology for the design of real or virtual objects. It is an industrial art used in a wide range of applications and mainly used for detailed engineering of 2D drawings of physical components, as well as conceptual design and layout of objects.
Computerized maintenance management system (CMMS): A piece of software that includes a
database used to manage information about maintenance management for an organization. Information managed within a CMMS can include, but is not limited to, work orders, asset histories, parts inventories, maintenance personnel records and metrics to measure productivity of the maintenance organization.
Customer relationship management (CRM): Processes implemented by an organization to handle
contact with customers.
Enterprise asset management (EAM): Management of the physical assets of an organization
to maximize value, including design, construction, commissioning, operations, maintenance and decommissioning or replacement of a plant, equipment and/or facility.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP): An integration of three components, business management
practices, information technology and specific business objectives, with a well-managed, centralized data repository.
Extensible markup language (XML): A set of rules for encoding documents electronically.
Facility information infrastructure (FII): A central repository of all the spatial data, inside and out, that exists about a building, campus or portfolio.
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Gartner, Inc.’s Magic Quadrant: A methodology for analyzing vendors to document their relative market position based on two primary metrics: ability to execute and completeness of vision. Gartner uses these two metrics to categorize each vendor into one of four quadrants: niche players, visionaries, challengers and leaders.
Geographic information system (GIS): A system that allows one to view, understand, question, interpret and visualize data in many ways that reveal relationships, patterns and trends in the form of maps, globes, reports and charts.
Global positioning system (GPS): A space-based radio navigation system that provides reliable positioning, navigation and timing services to civilian users on a continuous worldwide basis. Integrated project team: A team that includes all major players and is formed at the beginning of a project with the intent to work together over the entire scope of the project.
Integrated workplace management system (IWMS): An enterprise platform that supports the planning,
design, management, utilization and disposal of an organization’s location-based assets. International Organization for Standardization (ISO): An organization that is responsible for
international management standards, such as ISO 9000, ISO 14000, ISO 27000, ISO 22000 and others. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR): An optical remote sensing system used to collect topographic data by measuring properties of scattered light to find range and/or other information of a distant target. Multipatch: A 3D geometry used to represent the outer surface or shell of features that occupy a discrete area or volume in three-dimensional space. Multipatches can be used to represent simple objects such as spheres and cubes or complex objects such as buildings and trees.
Return on investment (ROI): A performance measure used to evaluate the efficiency of an investment or to compare the efficiency of a number of different investments. To calculate ROI, the benefit (return) of an investment is divided by the cost of the investment. The result is expressed as a percentage or a ratio. Spatial data infrastructure (SDI): A framework of technologies, policies, standards and human
resources necessary to acquire, process, store, distribute and improve the use of geospatial data across multiple public and private organizations.
Supply chain management (SCM): The management of a network of interconnected businesses
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