What do you do if you want to optimize smart building solutions using IoT technology in building design?

For a smart building solution, one might need to think through the requirements, a categorization of the requirements can be following : 1. Remote control and monitoring: This is the first thing that comes to mind while looking into goals, a control and monitoring for all appliances is a must 2. Power saving: one metric can be utilizing the control and building logics and algos to make sure an efficient power usage is derived 3. Surveillance & security: Another category of IoTfication is Surveillance over a secure channel.Here secure channel is important for any sustainable IoT solution 4. Entertainment & assistance: A voice engagement and assistance is quite elivating as an Iot goal Once drafted, one can add timeframes and work towards it

Once the goals are set, it should be evident on the fundamental sensory requirements. For example for creating an energy efficient control and monitor ecosystem, one might need a bunch of power monitoring(current, voltage, PF etc). While to actually control the appliances a lot of actuation might be required. Once the sensor set is closed, a very critical part will be the connectivity, again depending on the level of IoTfication, one can think of gateway setup with nodes or individual smaller IoTfied nodes. Generally for both scenarios, a sub gigaherz RF or a telecom/wifi connection fits right into the system.

Designing the data architecture can be quite critical, since this might determine the level of analytics you might be able to do over the operation of sensor and actuator units. While reliable network layer such as MQTT etc exist for data transmission, it is extremely important to have storage architectures in place to manage analysis and historical view of the building. A lot of third part cloud platforms including amazon, google etc exist that have maintained services as well to manage such data and perform relevant actions as and when required on the same.