Smart Buildings Lead to Smart Cities

Resource consumption reduction, operations efficiency gains, environmental improvements, sustainability, and enhancing the quality of life for all stakeholders are just a few of the smart city goals that match the goals of smart buildings. Buildings often operate as small cities within themselves, having to address nearly all the same systems in a complementary manner.

Buildings are a microcosm of cities with similar needs to manage resources, water, energy, lighting, emergency services, security, and other services. Along the same line of reasoning, smart buildings are a microcosm of smart cities and therefore serve as the ideal launching point to grow and develop smart cities.

Smart cities contain complex layered systems and an ecosystem of networks. These network foundations may be built with individual buildings that each use IoT smart building solutions to address building automation, energy optimization, and numerous other smart outcomes...