Internet of Things for Smart Buildings: Leverage IoT for smarter insights for buildings in the new and built environments

This book is an awesome resource. If you are serious about learning what is a smart building and what it takes to create smart buildings, you cannot find a better resource. Harry clearly understands and identifies the many issues facing traditional buildings. He then goes on to explain the numerous technologies that make up the Internet of Things (IoT) and how they can be applied to solve these sometimes complex and challenging issues when trying to build and operate a smart building. Conceiving, designing, constructing and managing a smart building just became a lot simpler… or at least a lot more practical. This is a comprehensive guide, and the examples, explanations and recommendations are invaluable.I highly recommend this book not only for understanding IoT and how it works but also how it can be applied to solve problems that were unsolvable in the past. Hope you enjoy the book as much as I did. You will learn a lot.

My wireless network integration company CTS has seen our projects move from a majority of macro cell (wireless towers) work a few years ago to a majority of small cell and in-building network deployments today. I wanted to better understand how these in-building network integrations were driving the smart buildings we heard so much about and the book Internet of Things for Smart Buildings looked like it would tell me everything I needed to know. This book did not disappoint. It was well written, extremely detailed, yet easy to read and understand how IoT, wired, wireless, and other technologies can all come together to create a smart building. Numerous examples, use cases, and lists of smart applications were presented and I better understand the potential systems my company will be installing and integrating soon. I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to learn how buildings get smart with IoT and smart building solutions. Joel Carlson Founder and President Carlson Telecom Services (CTS)

Smart technology has brought down the cost of insurance for newer vehicles over the past serval years with numerous safety features. I wanted to understand how smart building technology could impact the insurance rates for commercial property in a similar manner but first I needed to understand how buildings got smarter in the first place. Smeenk’s book Internet of Things for Smart Buildings does an excellent job of outlining what the internet of things (IoT) and smart buildings are, and how together they deliver enormous potential to improve health and safety, reduce risks, reduce operations costs, and make buildings smarter to prevent or dramatically reduce the impact of flooding, fires, and other events. I have a better understanding how all the systems in a building can work together and deliver opportunities to reduce insurance risk. People who want to learn about smart buildings and IoT for any reason should buy this book. Adam Bamford Founder Bamford Insurance

I have been involved in buildings and building systems for over 20 years and was pleasantly surprised to see how much information was thoughtfully covered in this book. With just the right amount technical overview, readers will find it comprehensive, yet easy to read and understand. Numerous smart building projects are discussed along with examples, and some use cases that explain how each smart building project helps to increase revenues, cut cost, and make the people in the building happier. This book will help me to demonstrate to my customers the potential return on their smart building projects and I recommend it to anyone thinking about implementing smart building projects.Journey Williams

The book is a very thorough look at the technology advancements including IoT and AI that delivered the foundations for Smart Buildings. I enjoyed the vibrant detail of a Day-in-the-Life possibilities with efficient building management systems, and amenities targeting the building tenants and occupants. Having toured the Sinclair Hotel in 2019 during smart renovations and conversion to Power over Ethernet (PoE), I am anxious to now see the finished, open hotel.I also believe the premise that Smart Buildings are the foundation blocks to connecting buildings to form a Smart Campus, then later to Communities, and finally ultimately a Smart City with interconnected systems.The book also highlights significant obstacles to Smart Buildings: the lack of a common architecture; the lack of standards; IT and OT systems being separated and the lack of a top down approach.

This is a well written book that provides a comprehensive view of the Smart Building IoT technology while explaining the technical aspects in easy to understand terms.It deliveries a smart building project framework to work from and numerous doable smart building applications with use case examples.The author explains how smart building projects help to increase revenues, cut energy and maintenance costs, and make the building inhabitants happier and safer through improved security advancements. The future is now.