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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

IoT will drive the future of buildings

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has long been considered the leading authority studying and defining the impact of technology, energy, and data analytics on buildings. They worked very closely with their partners, academia, industry leaders, and the US Department of Energy to develop a 2022 report titled A Vision for Future Buildings, which begins to envision what buildings will be like in 100 years.

Figure 15.7 – PNNL vision characteristics (image courtesy of PNNL)

Figure 15.7 – PNNL vision characteristics (image courtesy of PNNL)

This integrated and coherent vision identified five characteristics and targets for achieving future building goals. They are as follows:

  • Occupants: Systems are optimized for occupant expectations and behavior to deliver personalized environments and improve occupants’ health and well-being. Biometric data captured with IoT sensors will learn occupant preferences to automatically make adjustments to an individual...