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Internet of Things for Smart Buildings

By : Harry G. Smeenk
5 (1)
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

Software and APIs

Many of the OEM vendor IoT devices such as building management systems, building energy systems, and building automation systems have computing capabilities contained within a system. Custom and often proprietary software computer programs compile and analyze data, provide visualization methods, and deliver commands to physical devices such as controllers and actuators to perform an action, such as opening or closing an air damper.

In a smart building environment, our goal is to connect and control many of these systems and to give building owners, operators, and occupants direct access and control within perimeters. Many of the applications we discussed in part one of this book require customized software to collect and analyze data and perform any specific actions required. Like smart home applications that control lighting and temperature, specific software programs are needed to operate smart features in a building.

Often, these application programs are...