Entity
The Geospatial Glossary, published by the Geospatial Commission, and accessed on 17 September 2022, defines an entity as: ‘Any concrete or abstract thing that exists, did exist, or might exist, including associations among these things e.g. a person, object, event, idea, process, etc.’
Smart Building Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work, published by the RIBA in 2024, defines an entity as: ‘…a digital representation of any physical, logical or virtual item; the actual “things” in and around a building. Brick defines how entities can be classified and related to one another. There are several flavors of entities: Physical entities: anything that has a physical presence in the world.’
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