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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

Building smart from the start

Smart construction refers to the use of applications and processes that improve the construction process and the management of projects. Cloud-based technology solutions, collaboration tools, and IoT solutions are used during the construction phase. Digital technologies and industrialized manufacturing techniques come together to lower construction costs, reduce time, improve sustainability, and improve productivity. Technology advances are changing almost every aspect of the building construction industry.

Chapter 8, Digital Twins – a Virtual Representation, highlighted how digital twins and building information modeling (BIM) are used in the design phase to replicate the building properties digitally before construction to allow for better design decisions. BIM allows for the virtual tracking of assets and can deliver 3D renditions for contractors and workers to view precise details of the building. In addition to the visual representation...