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