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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

Your building’s operations IoT-driven smart programs should streamline work order management, digitalize central asset tracking for maintenance and equipment, and facilitate automation for inspections and maintenance while simplifying field operations. HVAC, indoor air management, and energy systems are high-demand areas of IoT smart building programs that can help meet your building’s efficiency and sustainability initiatives. Scalable tenant and occupant communications, coupled with simple amenity reservations and scheduling programs, will improve an occupant’s quality of experience. Owners, operators, and asset managers can gain insights into a building’s health and performance.

In the next chapter, we will delve into the highest priorities for building owners and occupant safety. First responders can react quicker to reduce injuries, save lives, and contain building assets if they have real-time access to a building’s various systems...