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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

Smart buildings create the smart city

A building is a microcosm of a city in many ways. Like connecting systems within a building and using the data collected to deliver actionable insights, connecting buildings across a city takes this a step further to identify inefficient use patterns across several buildings. Cities already exist and buildings already exist; therefore, they will just need to be upgraded with IoT technologies to collect data to make insightful adjustments.

Smart building technology deployed across the city can help streamline operations and improve the overall infrastructure to deliver the smart city. Smart cities use the same advanced digital technologies and analytics as smart buildings, with a focus on similar outcome areas, such as the following:

  • Energy: Cities are establishing goals to provide more efficient use of the power grid, something that is already occurring in many buildings. Buildings are a large part of a city’s energy use, and...