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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

Smart building architecture to pull components together

Existing buildings, and even buildings under design and construction today, consist of independently designed and implemented building systems. The HVAC system is separate from the security system, the lighting system is completely separate from the water system, and so on. Each of these systems is designed, deployed, and even maintained by different engineering and maintenance disciplines with little to no cross-over between trades.

Each discipline competes for capital resources to acquire the latest and greatest technology, but often, each is value-engineered (an approach to get to the lowest cost possible) down to the basic requirements. Because of this, we can say that smart buildings are essentially designed from the bottom up, system by system, resulting in a collection of systems trying to communicate with each other.

If we are to achieve all the benefits a truly smart building has to offer, we need to approach it...