Summary

A smart building ecosystem is a complex integrated system with many components. Each component on its own will not achieve the smart building goal, but when combined, we have the framework to build the ecosystem. It starts with IoT devices and sensors that monitor an environment and send data to a local or cloud computing platform for processing and viewing.

Several wired and wireless data transmission methods and communications protocols are available, and often, smart buildings combine these. Software programs and APIs are needed to process and analyze data collected by the sensors. Data management procedures are needed to control and store the massive amounts of data collected. An easy-to-use UI allows us to visualize the data.

While this chapter focused on the smart building ecosystem, the next chapter will demonstrate how to pull these components together to develop a smart building application. Several actual use cases will be reviewed along with common challenges...