Smart building architecture challenges

Unfortunately, the development of a common architecture is slow, and many believe there may never be an over-arching single architecture for smart buildings. Integration capabilities are an essential part of any smart building project and many solutions currently do not offer the required integration capabilities.

Let’s understand some of the challenges in building a smart building architecture:

• Different communication protocols: Electrical, plumbing, and mechanical systems are designed to stand alone without the thought of integration. This results in different communication protocols being used, with most of them being proprietary to the individual manufacturers. It also results in multiple computing and controlling systems, each requiring different skill sets to maintain and support.

While each system can collect data, it is not able to share this data with other systems. An open IoT software platform is needed to pull...