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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

A Roadmap to Your Smart Building Will Require Partners

A common misconception is that simply adding IoT and smart devices to a building is enough to position it as a smart building. As we have discussed in previous chapters, the smart building is a set of connected smart systems integrated and interoperable through a connected platform, capable of analyzing real-time data to deliver actionable insights.

While we have documented the benefits, use cases, components, available technology, and architectures well, the roadmap to achieve a smart building isn’t as clear. This chapter offers a roadmap for existing and new buildings to make your building smarter as each new system is integrated. We’ll include references to previous chapters to indicate where that chapter’s subject matter fits in with the roadmap. We’ll identify the various partners that may be required beyond the construction crews.

In this chapter, we’re going to do the following:

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