A domain ontology for the municipal heat planning.
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The Municipal Heat Planning Ontology (MHPO) provides a semantic model for representing data, concepts, and relationships relevant to municipal heat planning. It enables the standardized description of heat planning data, results, and planning artefacts so that they can be integrated, queried, and compared across municipalities, planning processes, and analytical tools.
Municipal heat planning generates heterogeneous datasets describing building stocks, heat demand, infrastructure, supply technologies, potentials of renewable heat sources, and transformation strategies. In practice, these datasets are typically stored in isolated reports, spreadsheets, GIS layers, or proprietary planning tools, which makes interoperability and cross-municipal comparison difficult.
The ontology is developed as part of the project DB4KWP – Using databases and knowledge graphs to make the results and data of municipal heat planning comparable and usable.
The Municipal Heat Planning Ontology (MHPO) focuses on representing the conceptual and data structures required to describe municipal heat planning processes, datasets, and results. defines the core concepts and relationships required to represent municipal heat planning processes, datasets, and planning results in a machine-interpretable way. The ontology focuses on the semantic representation of entities that are typically involved in municipal heat planning studies and analyses.
MHPO covers planning entities such as municipalities, districts, and spatial planning areas, as well as the building stocks and spatial units that are commonly used to analyse heat demand. It provides concepts for representing heat demand at different levels of aggregation, including the heat demand of individual buildings and aggregated demand for neighbourhoods or districts.
The ontology also represents different options for supplying heat within municipal energy systems. This includes centralized and decentralized heat supply systems, district heating networks, and individual heating technologies. In addition, MHPO captures renewable heat sources and waste heat potentials that are considered in heat transition planning.
Infrastructure components relevant for heat supply are also part of the ontology’s scope. This includes district heating networks, heat generation facilities, and the spatial relationships between supply infrastructure and demand areas. These concepts allow the representation of existing infrastructure as well as planned developments within municipal heat transition strategies.
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