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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

A smart building ecosystem is a complex integrated system with many components. Each component on its own will not achieve the smart building goal, but when combined, we have the framework to build the ecosystem. It starts with IoT devices and sensors that monitor an environment and send data to a local or cloud computing platform for processing and viewing.

Several wired and wireless data transmission methods and communications protocols are available, and often, smart buildings combine these. Software programs and APIs are needed to process and analyze data collected by the sensors. Data management procedures are needed to control and store the massive amounts of data collected. An easy-to-use UI allows us to visualize the data.

While this chapter focused on the smart building ecosystem, the next chapter will demonstrate how to pull these components together to develop a smart building application. Several actual use cases will be reviewed along with common challenges...