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Smart Buildings Lead to Smart Cities
Resource consumption reduction, operations efficiency gains, environmental improvements, sustainability, and enhancing the quality of life for all stakeholders are just a few of the smart city goals that match the goals of smart buildings. Buildings often operate as small cities within themselves, having to address nearly all the same systems in a complementary manner.
Buildings are a microcosm of cities with similar needs to manage resources, water, energy, lighting, emergency services, security, and other services. Along the same line of reasoning, smart buildings are a microcosm of smart cities and therefore serve as the ideal launching point to grow and develop smart cities.
Smart cities contain complex ...
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