  A large percentage of buildings in domestic or special-purpose is expected to
become increasingly "smarter" in the future, due to the immense benefits in
terms of energy saving, safety, flexibility, and comfort, that relevant new
technologies offer. As concerns hardware, software, or platform level, however,
no clearly dominant standards currently exist. Such standards, would ideally,
fulfill a number of important desiderata, which are to be touched upon in this
paper. Here, we will present a prototype platform for supporting multiple
concurrent applications for smart buildings, which is utilizing an advanced
sensor network as well as a distributed microservices architecture, centrally
featuring the Jolie programming language. The architecture and benefits of our
system are discussed, as well as a prototype containing a number of nodes and a
user interface, deployed in a real-world academic building environment. Our
results illustrate the promising nature of our approach, as well as open
avenues for future work towards its wider and larger scale applicability.
