Chia-Hau Chen, Yung-Chi Chen, Wei-Lin Lee, Hock-Kiet Wong · 7 authors
Smart-building structural health monitoring (SHM) requires a unified digital representation capable of integrating heterogeneous sensing devices, continuous structural states, and burst-oriented post-event assessment without embedding device-specific logic throughout the software stack. This study proposes a semantic digital twin architecture in which SensorType, DeviceProfile, and site metadata form a semantic single source of truth and generate W3C Web of Things Thing Descriptions at runtime. The resulting WoT-driven contract governs field mapping, schema-on-write persistence, generic API access, state visualization, and engineering-threshold evaluation. To accommodate heterogeneous temporal behavior, event-driven seismic assessment and state-driven construction tilt monitoring are orchestrated as distinct workflows that share persistence, notification, and observability services while retaining separate timing contracts. Controlled extension experiments required no manual data-layer, backend, ingestion, or frontend modification, with a runtime source-hash difference of zero. Under a ten-building seismic-event burst, continuous write-lag p95 changed by −20 ms from a 969 ms baseline while all event jobs completed without restart or out-of-memory conditions. The ingestion path further sustained 71,040 points/s at 300 sensors with no dropped points. These results demonstrate that WoT-driven semantic interoperability and event–state workflow orchestration can provide an extensible integration foundation for smart-building SHM within a clearly defined configuration boundary.