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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

Connectivity

Collecting data with IoT sensors and devices would be pointless if that data could not be transmitted to the computing platform and applications for analytics and viewing. Connecting these points should be conducted without making changes to the applications or systems.

The application programs should be able to communicate with each other to complete the transaction. This communication system exchanges signals between destinations through a channel, and the process is referred to as network communication. A transmitter to send the information is required, along with a receiver at the other end.

The two types of communication systems are line communication systems and radio communication systems. Line systems use existing infrastructure or dedicated physical mediums such as wire, fiber, cable, coax, or similar to transfer data. Radio systems use radio waves for this transfer.

Communication systems are also classified as the following:

  • Analog communication...