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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

Smart Building IoT Stacks and Requirements

The complexity of smart buildings can be overwhelming, especially when there are numerous vendors, products, and technologies involved. Smart building stacks can be used to map building products, IoT devices, and technologies for comparison, or to identify gaps in a vendor’s product or from a customer’s requirement perspective.

The smart building stack has different meanings to different stakeholders, with various types such as development stacks, financial stacks, business stacks, technology stacks, and numerous others. In this chapter, we will introduce a smart building stack developed by several industry leaders called the Smarter Stack. This very versatile tool can help those trying to explain, plan, and implement smarter building initiatives using a single tool. It can be used to provide a perspective for a small smart building project in the built community or to plan and design new and retrofit initiatives.

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