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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

How to Make Buildings Smarter with Smart Location

Smart buildings are seeing an increased focus on occupant-centric workplaces using occupancy analytics and Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS). RTLS generate live updates on the location of people and objects. Think of them as the blue dot on a map showing where something is at a given moment.

Memoori defines occupancy analytics and location-based services in the commercial office space as “electronic hardware and software used in workplace management and indoor location-based services to enable one or more of the following applications – optimizing spatial efficiency in the workplace, improving the location-based experience of building users, people finding, using location-based data to optimize building and operational performance, asset tracking.” Memoori estimates that the occupancy analytics commercial office space industry will grow at a CAGR rate of 21.5%, from $2.17 billion in 2019 to $5.73 billion in 2024...