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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

Using the Smarter Stack to gain perspectives

Depending on who you are or who you might be discussing your smarter project with, you will each have different perspectives about a building and a project, as represented in Figure 9.8. The building owner may only care about the purpose and operations of the building and probably leaves everything beyond that to others. The consumer or occupant will care about the purpose of the building and why they are using it, be it for retail, hospitality, commercial office, religious, or medical purposes.

Figure 9.8 – The Smart Stacker perspectives

Figure 9.8 – The Smart Stacker perspectives

The Facility Manager (FM) will undoubtedly focus on how the building operates and functions daily. Integrators will be focused on the delivery of applications to support the operations along with the teams pulling together dashboards on a SPOG.

Applications developers will be involved in the development of the app and a discussion of how it works together. They will...