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Internet of Things for Smart Buildings

By : Harry G. Smeenk
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Book Image

Internet of Things for Smart Buildings

5 (1)
By: Harry G. Smeenk

Overview of this book

Imagine working in a building with smart features and tenant applications that allow you to monitor, manage, and control every aspect of your user experience. Internet of Things for Smart Buildings is a comprehensive guide that will help you achieve that with smart building architecture, ecosystems, technologies, and key components that create a smart building. In this book, you’ll start by examining all the building systems and applications that can be automated with IoT devices. You’ll learn about different apps to improve efficiency, reduce consumption, and improve occupant satisfaction. You’ll explore IoT sensors, devices, computing platforms, analytics software, user interfaces, and connectivity options, along with common challenges you might encounter while developing the architecture. You’ll also discover how to piece different components together to develop smart buildings with the help of use cases and examples and get to grips with the various IoT stacks. After finding out where to start developing the requirements for your project, you’ll uncover a recommended methodology to understand your current building systems and a process for determining what needs to be modified, along with new technology requirements. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to design and build your own smart building initiative, turning your city into a smart city with one building at a time.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Applications for Smart Buildings
7
Part 2: Smart Building Architecture
11
Part 3: Building Your Smart Building Stack
15
Part 4: Building Sustainability for Contribution to Smart Cities

Digital Twins – a Virtual Representation

One of the fastest-growing smart building technologies today is the creation of a virtual representation of buildings, equipment, and systems using a technology called digital twins. Virtual replicas of a building are being used in the building construction process and for building operations, maintenance, and management of day-to-day processes.

In this chapter, we will learn about smart building digital twins and digital representation and how the information required to build the digital twin begins with the data collected, monitored, and managed by the IoT devices. Digital twins provide the dynamics of how the internet of things devices operate throughout their life cycle.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Defining smart building digital twins and providing a brief history, along with many building application examples
  • Explaining the different types of digital twins in a smart...