Development of FDD-ON: an Ontology for VAV HVAC System Fault Detection and Diagnostics
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This paper presents FDD-ON, a modular ontology for representing VAV HVAC system components, faults, symptoms, and impacts to enable interoperable fault detection and diagnostics applications.
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# Development of FDD-ON: an Ontology for VAV HVAC System Fault Detection and Diagnostics Source: [https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29657](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29657) Authors:[Yimin Chen](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Chen,+Y),[Brian Fricke](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Fricke,+B),[Bo Shen](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Shen,+B),[Jamie Lian](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Lian,+J),[Mingkan Zhang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Zhang,+M),[James Lo](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Lo,+J),[Yun Zhang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Zhang,+Y),[Shi Ye](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Ye,+S),[Jiajing Huang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Huang,+J),[Han Hu](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Hu,+H),[Chujie Lu](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Lu,+C),[Rui Tang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Tang,+R),[George Zhuang](https://arxiv.org/search/cs?searchtype=author&query=Zhuang,+G) [View PDF](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.29657) > Abstract:Fault detection and diagnosis \(FDD\) technology is essential for improving HVAC system reliability, energy efficiency, and maintenance effectiveness\. However, effective deployment of FDD solutions in buildings requires structured domain knowledge that can bridge heterogeneous data sources, diverse equipment types, and varied diagnostic outputs\. Limited data interpretability and interoperability within the FDD domain have led to fragmented information silos, hindering the implementation of FDD and related applications, such as the digital twin\-enabled FDD frameworks and artificial intelligence \(AI\)\-driven maintenance decision\-making systems\. This paper presents an FDD Ontology \(FDD\-ON\), a modular and extensible ontology to formally represent variable air volume \(VAV\) HVAC system components, fault types, symptom statuses, fault impacts and associated attributes\. FDD\-ON integrates HVAC system FDD semantics to provide comprehensive representations of fault and symptom attributes, supported by the well\-defined controlled vocabulary\. Additionally, FDD\-ON offers comprehensive fault, symptom, and impact libraries to capture a broad spectrum of operational abnormalities and their consequences in VAV HVAC systems\. Through explicit contributing cause\-fault\-symptom\-impact relations, FDD\-ON serves as a machine\-interpretable basis for querying diagnostic knowledge, mapping heterogeneous FDD outputs, and developing interoperable FDD\-related applications\. FDD\-ON is evaluated using publicly available VAV HVAC system datasets and demonstrated through FDD development applications\. Results indicate that FDD\-ON provides a foundational semantic framework for advancing scalable, transparent, and interoperable FDD solutions across various applications\. ## Submission history From: Yimin Chen \[[view email](https://arxiv.org/show-email/b2c644b9/2607.29657)\] **\[v1\]**Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:37:34 UTC \(1,644 KB\)
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