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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

How smart is your building

In the previous chapter, we identified a method to identify the smart building requirements from several different perspectives and multiple stakeholders. Recently, several industry associations and alliances across the world have introduced smart building assessment and certification programs. This is an area that I know very well, as I was instrumental in conceptualizing the industry’s first smart building assessment and certification program with the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA).

The idea to develop a certification program initialized from wanting to provide owners and operators a methodology to understand where their building currently stood in terms of smartness, and then for them to develop a strategic plan to evolve that smartness. Many building owners and operators implemented individual projects that added some degree of smartness, such as smart lighting, smart thermostats, and/or energy efficiency improvements, but few...