Using the Smarter Stack to gain perspectives

Depending on who you are or who you might be discussing your smarter project with, you will each have different perspectives about a building and a project, as represented in Figure 9.8. The building owner may only care about the purpose and operations of the building and probably leaves everything beyond that to others. The consumer or occupant will care about the purpose of the building and why they are using it, be it for retail, hospitality, commercial office, religious, or medical purposes.

Figure 9.8 – The Smart Stacker perspectives

The Facility Manager (FM) will undoubtedly focus on how the building operates and functions daily. Integrators will be focused on the delivery of applications to support the operations along with the teams pulling together dashboards on a SPOG.

Applications developers will be involved in the development of the app and a discussion of how it works together. They will...