  A large percentage of buildings, 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. However, concerning the hardware, software, or platform
levels, no clearly dominant standard frameworks currently exist. 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 micro services architecture, centrally featuring the Jolie
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 it
wider and larger scale applicability.
