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Figure 1: The Energie Navigator framework<br />

A main aspect of the expert tool is a rule- <strong>an</strong>d metric-toolkit, which is used to define logical<br />

rules on sensors to define a target state of a facility or a building. These rules c<strong>an</strong><br />

automatically be checked by the framework. A rules- <strong>an</strong>d metric-l<strong>an</strong>guage is implemented as<br />

a domain specific l<strong>an</strong>guage (DSL) according to the Object Constraint L<strong>an</strong>guage (OCL) of the<br />

Unified Modeling L<strong>an</strong>guage (UML) with the help of MontiCore, a framework for designing<br />

DSLs. The system is deployed locally as a common server application, but it optionally uses<br />

cloud infrastructure to optimize load bal<strong>an</strong>cing.<br />

Fgure 2: Expert tool <strong>an</strong>d web reporting<br />

In addition to these expert functions the Energie Navigator also focuses on raising the energy<br />

awareness of end-users, e.g., by providing web based applications for current energy<br />

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