Internet of Things for Smart Buildings

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Smart Building IoT Stacks and Requirements

The complexity of smart buildings can be overwhelming, especially when there are numerous vendors, products, and technologies involved. Smart building stacks can be used to map building products, IoT devices, and technologies for comparison, or to identify gaps in a vendor’s product or from a customer’s requirement perspective.

The smart building stack has different meanings to different stakeholders, with various types such as development stacks, financial stacks, business stacks, technology stacks, and numerous others. In this chapter, we will introduce a smart building stack developed by several industry leaders called the Smarter Stack. This very versatile tool can help those trying to explain, ...