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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

Three layers of computing

We have established that IoT sensors collect data, and that data is transmitted using a communication protocol to a computing platform of some sort to be analyzed, viewed, and acted upon. There are different methods to achieve the computing process based on the amount of data, the speed and time required, and the financial resources available. This computing activity may take place locally within a building on or close to the source, in the cloud, or through a combination of the two.

Building management systems, building automation systems, security systems, fire alarm systems, and other building systems have traditionally been used to build computing platforms, albeit as separate and disconnected systems. Basically, each of these systems has a computing platform of its own, either within the device itself, on a dedicated server, or on a personal computer. More recently, buildings have added cloud computing in an attempt to connect these building systems...