Unique Building Identification (UBID)

Website: https://buildingid.pnnl.gov/

Documentation

Install

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'pnnl-building_id'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install pnnl-building_id

Usage

The pnnl-building_id package supports one usage:

• Application programming interface (API)

The API

UBID codecs are encapsulated in separate modules:

• PNNL::BuildingId::V3 (format: "C-n-e-s-w")

Modules export the same API:

• decode(String) ~> PNNL::BuildingId::CodeArea
• encode(Float, Float, Float, Float, Float, Float, Integer) ~> String
• encode_code_area(PNNL::BuildingId::CodeArea) ~> String
• valid?(String) ~> Boolean

In the following example, a UBID code is decoded and then re-encoded:

# Use the "C-n-e-s-w" format for UBID codes.
require 'pnnl/building_id'

# Initialize UBID code.
code = '849VQJH6+95J-51-58-42-50'
$stdout.puts(code)

# Decode the UBID code.
code_area = PNNL::BuildingId::V3.decode(code)
$stdout.puts(code_area)

# Resize the resulting UBID code area.
#
# The effect of this operation is that the height and width of the UBID code
# area are reduced by half an OLC code area.
new_code_area = code_area.resize
$stdout.puts(new_code_area)

# Encode the new UBID code area.
new_code = PNNL::BuildingId::V3.encode_code_area(new_code_area)
$stdout.puts(new_code)

# Test that the new UBID code matches the original.
$stdout.puts(code == newCode)

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of The 2-Clause BSD License.

Contributions

Contributions are accepted on GitHub via the fork and pull request workflow. See here for more information.