Smart Cities

A City Full of Unconnected Building Networks is Not Smart

“To deal with challenges faced during the growth of cities, the concept of Smart City has been envisioned, which denotes “the effective integration of physical, digital and human systems in the built environment to deliver a sustainable, prosperous and inclusive future for its citizens,” begins a recent Georgia Tech research report on integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) in buildings. “As the cells of smart cities, Smart Buildings are buildings which integrate intelligence, enterprise, control, and materials and construction as an entire building system to meet the drivers for building progression: energy efficiency, longevity, comfort, and satisfaction,” the paper continues. The study focuses on IoT data standards and how they could be improved to achieve greater penetration and better integration within smart buildings, a component of the IoT that the researchers believe is being neglected. It is the failure of current standards, they suggest, that has led to the highly fragmented smart buildings industry […]

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