Smeenk Internet of Things for Smart Buildings

Leverage IoT for smarter insights for buildings in the new and built environments
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80461-240-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, 306 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smeenk, Harry G.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Personal Computer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents - An Introduction to IoT and Smart Buildings
- Smart Building Operations and Controls
- First Responders and Building Safety
- How to Make Buildings Smarter with Smart Location
- Tenant Services and Smart Building Amenities
- The Smart Building Ecosystem
- Smart Building Architecture and Use Cases
- Digital Twins - a Virtual Representation
- Smart Building IoT Stacks and Requirements
- Understanding Your Building
- Technology and Applications
- A Roadmap to Your Smart Building Will Require Partners
- The Importance of Smart Buildings for Sustainability and the Environment
- Smart Buildings Lead to Smart Cities
- Smart Buildings on the Bleeding Edge

Leseproben

Preface

Buildings are a System of Systems (SoS), each controlling a vital function to achieve the building’s purpose. Smart buildings use Internet of Things (IoT) devices, sensors, and software to monitor and control various building functions to optimize the building’s environment and operations. As a result, they improve building efficiency, reduce costs, reduce resource usage, and improve occupant satisfaction.

Almost every function within a building is a candidate for building your smart building applications with IoT devices. Whether you start with one function or multiple functions, this book will review the many opportunities and technologies used to build a smart building. Edge routers, numerous IoT sensors and devices, the various connection options available, and the software required both locally and via the cloud to make it all work together seamlessly are discussed.

This book will leverage my smart building experience to help you to do the following:

• Make a building’s mechanical, electric, HVAC, and networks smart with the addition of IoT, connectivity, and software solutions
• Get multiple building systems (HVAC, security, fire, and so on) to communicate with each other to analyze data and deliver actionable operations outcomes
• Improve operational efficiency, reduce waste and carbon footprint, consume fewer resources, improve productivity, and enhance the occupant’s quality of experience
• Understand the communications protocols, methodologies, components, and architecture used to deliver IoT for smart buildings
• Solve key building industry issues such as return-to-building, proprietary software languages that prevent other vendors from connecting, lack of IoT and smart buildings skills, and meeting government energy and environmental requirements

It is the only comprehensive book explaining nearly every aspect of how IoT makes buildings smarter. You will learn about terminology, technology, standards, methodologies, and frameworks to help you decide which projects are right to build your smart buildings.

It will provide application examples, definitions, and detailed explanations of what building systems can be made smart with IoT. Various technologies and architectures are reviewed to demonstrate how to design and implement solutions, including how to use IoT stacks. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to identify and design your own smart building initiatives to solve building-related challenges.

Who this book is for

This book is for architects; mechanical, electrical, and HVAC engineers; system integrators; facilities and operations personnel; and others looking to implement IoT solutions to make their buildings smart.

This book reveals examples, strategies, and frameworks that will allow your business to realize sustainable financial benefits and efficiencies from smart buildings.

The reader should have a basic knowledge of the various mechanical and electrical building systems, including HVAC, security, fire alarms, communications, and data networks, as well as the operations and maintenance requirements.

What this book covers

, , lays the foundation by defining the IoT and smart buildings and how they interact. Traditional building issues will be identified, and we’ll discuss how IoT smart building solutions resolve these. It also covers the history and evolution of building control systems and how smart buildings contribute to smart cities.

, , explains how a building comprises several systems, each operating independently with a few connected to each other. This chapter shows how these systems benefit enormously by adding IoT devices that can monitor, measure, report, control, and optimize various functions when connected to a common IoT network.

, , demonstrates how IoT helps first responders to better understand the building with access to a visual display of the building’s footprint, which draws on both real-time situation alerts forwarded from dispatch as well as stored building floor plan and firefighting equipment location data. You’ll learn how the incident commander can see the building footprint and interior plans, the location of fire hydrants, and how building operations can achieve significant improvements in building access, security, and communications.

, , identifies how building data can be enriched with the location context. This chapter demonstrates how location-based services are being used to increase efficiency, improve safety, and enable a more enhanced user experience. It will demonstrate that smart locations are physical locations equipped with networked sensors to give owners, occupants, and managers more information about the condition of those locations and how they’re used.

, , outlines how building owners and operators introduce IoT and smart building solutions to improve their operational efficiency (therefore reducing cost) and to improve occupant satisfaction (that hopefully increases revenues). This chapter will explore the numerous applications that have been developed to improve almost every aspect of building management and occupant interaction points.

, , shows how new buildings incorporate IoT solutions as part of their initial design, and existing buildings add IoT components to make the building smarter. This chapter highlights the five major components; IoT sensors and devices, edge or cloud computing, analytics software, a user interface, and a means of connectivity to produce enormous amounts of data to manage a smart building.

, , demonstrates how smart buildings today are not designed from the top down; rather, they are assembled from the bottom up, pulling together components that are independently designed and implemented separately from each other. This chapter reviews the various components, the importance, and the challenges of developing a smart building architecture and review several use cases. NIST cybersecurity best practices are introduced.

, , demonstrates the digital replica of physical assets, processes, people, places, systems, and devices used for various purposes within the building. It shows how a digital twin virtual representation of the physical building is embedded with rich information about spaces and assets that can offer significant benefits to building owners.

, , discusses how the complexity of smart buildings can be overwhelming, especially when there are numerous vendors, products, and technologies involved. This chapter introduces the Smarter Stack used to map existing building systems, IoT devices, and technologies to compare or identify gaps in a vendor’s product or from a customer’s requirement perspective.

, , demonstrates that to begin any smart building undertaking, you must first understand what the current systems are and how they are configured and connected, and then determine what modifications and new systems will be required. This chapter introduces several industry smart building assessment programs to determine the current level of a building’s smartness.

, , focuses on the technology and applications required to make the building smart. It examines an extensive list of smart building application opportunities available to deliver smart requirements, along with examples for each. It defines the role of middleware in delivering these applications and concludes with a review of the codes, standards, and guidelines to be considered to prevent becoming locked into proprietary solutions that may prevent expansion later.

, , offers a roadmap for existing and new buildings to make your building smarter as each new system is integrated. It makes references to previous chapters to indicate where that chapter’s subject matter fits into the roadmap and identifies the various partners that may be required beyond the construction crews.

, , reminds us that smart buildings use IoT to share information, control operations, and enhance human interaction. In addition, because buildings require a lot of energy to operate, smart buildings are equipped to better manage energy usage, and this chapter provides ways to reduce carbon footprint, foster sustainability, and endorse eco-friendly alternatives.

, , theorizes that buildings are an ideal starting point from which to grow smart cities. This chapter demonstrates how buildings are a microcosm of a city with similar needs to manage resources, water, energy, lighting, emergency services, security, and other services. Along the same line...

Über Autor(innen)

Smeenk Harry G.:

Harry Smeenk is a technology strategist and thought leader in smart buildings, IoT, edge data centers, and networks. He is an executive leader in the design, development, deployment, and integration of smart building IoT networks with Tapa Inc, and Smart Buildings Online LLC. He drove worldwide cross-industry technology roadmaps, best practices, and standards for the Telecom Industry Association. He conceptualized and developed the industry's first smart building rating program. As Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the North Texas Enterprise Center he helped launch and accelerate startups including 3 of his own. He has an MBA degree from the University of North Carolina and a BS degree in Business Management from St. John Fisher College.