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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

Summary

This introductory chapter provided you with a view of what it might look like to work inside a smart building and the many productivity, comfort, and efficiency improvements that IoT smart buildings can deliver for the occupants. We established an understanding of what the IoT and smart buildings are and then we connected them together to see the endless possibilities for smart building applications.

These IoT smart building applications solve many of the challenges faced by building owners and operators today. They deliver safe, efficient buildings that are energy efficient, reduce operations and energy costs, increase the value of the asset, and deliver a greatly improved quality of experience for the occupants. All buildings, regardless of function (schools, hospitals, retail premises, hotels, offices, factories, etc.), can achieve these benefits. Since buildings are a microcosm of a city with many similar challenges and requirements, the way to smart cities will need to start with smart buildings.

We touched on a brief history of how building management systems evolved from pneumatic controls to the smart buildings of today. Since a building is made up of a number of systems, the next chapter will review these key systems, their functionality, and how each of these will greatly benefit from IoT smart building applications that you can design to create a smart building.