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Smart buildings are sometimes referred to as ‘automated buildings’, ‘intelligent buildings’ or buildings that incorporate smart technology. However, it is a fairly ambiguous term that at its most basic level has been used to describe buildings that include technologies such as:Automated systems, Intelligent building management systems, Energy efficiency measures, Wireless technologies, Digital infrastructure, Adaptive energy systems, Networked appliances, Data gathering devices, Information and communications networks, Assistive technologies, Remote monitoring.
Smart technology standards and capabilities
BACpress: It centres on the use of interconnected technologies to make buildings more intelligent and responsive, ultimately improving their performance.
At present, many building systems operate independently, and many are inherently inefficient as they lack the monitoring capability that would enable them to adapt effectively to different conditions or modes of operation.
Smart technology can facilitate better decision making and automation of responses. Jones Lang Lasalle suggest that “To be considered an intelligent system, automation should be able to: monitor performance; detect inefficiencies; diagnose possible causes; make automatic adjustments; alert facilities management staff to issues that can be automatically corrected; and suggest possible tools and parts that may help staff members get the job done quickly” (ref. JLL, Smart Building Technology: Driving the Future of High Performance Real Estate).
Possible Smart Town Problems
There are some concerns regarding the roll-out of smart technology. It has been suggested that poorly implemented technologies can disempower occupants, taking away their control of the environment, and that a lack of suitable instructions or education may lead to the incorrect use of technology and so the inefficient operation of buildings. In addition, rapidly changing technologies can have a life-cycle of just 2-5 years. This raises environmental issues regarding the continual retrofitting of technologies, and suggests that building systems should be ‘disaggregated’ from the building fabric so they can be upgraded without the need for changes to the building itself.
To a certain extent, this smart buildings agenda is driven by suppliers with a vested interest in selling technology, and it can sometimes seem that the word ‘smart’ can be used to describe almost any new technology or system. In addition, the focus on active systems suggests by implication that low-tech or passive buildings are not intelligent.
What exactly is the smart building?
Less product-driven definitions encompass the wider, fundamental outputs of the built environment, such as; wellbeing and productivity, as well as consideration of long-term future-proofing and whole-life costs, suggesting that truly ‘smart’ buildings are those that deliver better environmental, social and economic conditions.
In this context, ‘Smart’ design includes a broader understanding of property portfolios, local areas, regions and cities.
The term ‘Smart cities’ is defined in PAS 180: 2014 Smart Cities. Vocabulary as ‘…the effective integration of physical, digital and human systems in the built environment to deliver a sustainable, prosperous and inclusive future for its citizens.’ Engineering practice Buro Happold suggest that this about more than just harnessing technology; requiring considerationof governance and growth, urban development and infrastructure, the environment and natural resources, society and community. (Ref. Buro Happold: Defining and benchmarking SMART cities)
Redstone suggest that “…the true power comes in taking a holistic approach – combining what were once disparate systems into an integrated platform that offers better economic, social and environmental performance for buildings and their occupants.”
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