What does a building need to become a Smart Building?

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1.????IoT devices and sensors:

Smart buildings need devices that can relate to each other thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT), making it possible for movable and immovable elements to be interconnected in real time through an enabling platform. These sensors are key in the smart buildings sector and other sectors that use IoT technologies. As a result, demand for them will continue to grow in the coming years. According to Markets and Markets, the IoT sensor market is expected to reach $38.41 billion by end of 2022.

2.????Networks:

A Smart City infrastructure requires many devices to be connected to the same control system. Connectivity will provide real-time information delivery and optimize the battery consumption of the devices. These wireless communication networks are based on LORAWAN, WIFI, NB IoT, SIGFOX, etc. technology.

3.????Artificial Intelligence:

Artificial intelligence makes it possible for machines to learn from experience and adjust to changing environments, which makes it possible for a building to evolve by improving its efficiency based on the recognition of patterns in the data collected and applying optimized algorithms.

4.????Big Data:

A Smart Building generates huge amounts of data sets or combinations of data sets daily, which due to their complexity or variability in some areas make it difficult to capture, manage, process, or analyze them using conventional technologies and tools. For this reason, advanced tools capable of “ingesting” and processing such data are used, making them useful and exploitable.

5.????Management Platform:

To make it possible for all the data collected from the different elements and sensors in the building to be processed and managed in an automated way, it is essential to have a comprehensive management platform, where the status of all the systems is visualized. These platforms make it possible to combine data from different sources such as sensors, databases or external information systems and process them both in real time and historically.