Smart Building Systems for Architects Owners and Builders
1 What Is a Smart Building?
2 The Foundations of a Smart Building
3 Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning Systems
4 Lighting Control Systems
5 Electric Power Management Systems
6 Access Control Systems
7 Video Surveillance Systems
8 Video, IPTV, and Digital Signage Systems
9 Fire Alarm and Mass Notification Systems
10 Voice Networks and Distributed Antenna Systems
11 Data Networks
12 Facility Management Systems
13 Design, Construction, and Renovations
14 The Economics of Smart Buildings
15 Audio Visual Systems
16 Network Integration
17 Energy and Sustainability
18 Case Studies
Smart buildings, or at least discussion of the concept, originated in the early 1980s. In 1984, for instance, a New York Times article described real estate developers creating “a new generation of buildings that almost think for themselves . . . called intelligent buildings.” Such a building was defined as “a marriage of two technologies—old-fashioned building management and telecommunications.”
Smart Building Systems for Architects Owners and Builders
