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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

Technology and Applications

In previous chapters, we examined what a smart building is, how IoT contributes to making buildings smarter, many of the technologies and protocols that are used, and how to define smart building requirements, and we identified the different building systems that could benefit from smart building solutions. In this chapter, we will begin by summarizing the typical hardware requirements to make a building smart.

We’ll then examine an extensive list of smart building application opportunities that are available to deliver the smart requirements, along with examples for each. These should be compared to your requirements list. We’ll define and explain the role of middleware in delivering these applications. The chapter will conclude with a review of the codes, standards, and guidelines to be considered to prevent becoming locked into proprietary solutions that may prevent expansion later.

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