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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

Understanding Your Building’s Existing Smart Level and Systems

In Chapter 9, Smart Building IoT Stacks and Requirements, we identified a methodology to define the why or purpose for making a building smarter. Since most smart building projects will be in the built environment (existing buildings), it’s important to understand the current smart state and readiness of the building. In this chapter, we will introduce several industry-smart building assessment programs to determine the current level of a building’s smartness.

It is also important to understand what systems exist in the building to evaluate whether they will need to be modified, upgraded, or replaced, or if additional technology can be introduced to make that system perform smarter. To continue the journey toward the smart building, an inventory of the current systems, connections, and existing integration will identify what the building has as a starting point.

In this chapter, we’re going...