How Smart Buildings is a Secret Sauce of Smart Cities?
Published by : Industrial Automation
Recent advancements in technology, especially the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), have contributed to the development of smart buildings. A smart building uses connected and advance systems, such as IP video camera systems, sensors access control systems, smart meters, smart parking and networked devices. These systems together create an effective connection between isolated databases. As these devices using in a smart building generate data and insights help improve occupants’ safety and living standards, along with reducing overall energy consumption.
Smart buildings are defined as a key building block of a smart city, advancing management and operation of services like electricity, transportation and water. Certainly, smart building addresses the need for automation, as well as creating intelligence that exceeds beyond the simple automation and focuses on how the technology is utilized and managed.
Since cities around the world have taken aggressive takes toward developing climate change policy to curb greenhouse gas emissions, such policy is also essential for making a smart city initiative. According to reports, nearly 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 70% of energy consumption in major cities are attributable to buildings. In this context, making buildings smarter can play a crucial role in accomplishing smart city goals.
Smart building technology can help cities stay competitive ahead of new business models and emerging technologies. As per the Navigant Research, the global market of smart buildings for smart cities is anticipated to grow from $3.6 billion in 2017 to $10.2 billion by 2026.
Smart Building Technology for Smart Cities
A smart building leverages a blend of advanced solutions that help automate building management, including software that manages the distinct variables of a building's operation like temperature and lighting. On the other hand, sensors that are used to sense changes like the rise and fall of temperature or motion in a room, and feed that information back to the software. Through these sensors, a building management system can make temperature and lighting changes according to the movements in rooms. This means smart building technology and automation can maintain a building’s temperature manually.
Smart buildings use Bluetooth mesh networking and new enhancements to Bluetooth location services capabilities which are seen with lighting control systems that serve as a key use case in creating large-scale device networks within enterprises.
Moreover, the transformation of a city into a smart city heavily relies on smart buildings. The number of smart cities worldwide is expected to grow widely due to growing population trends that are shifting from rural areas to urban. It is predicted that Europe and North America will account for about half of the world's smart cities in the next 10 years.
So, as advancements and innovation in technology continue to evolve, we believe, they will empower smart buildings in smart cities across the world to deliver a safer, more efficient, and healthier environment for all. Also, these innovations will give rise to the network infrastructure that offers a high-speed and huge volume of data transmission capability, thus accomplishing the smart city solution.