A Testbed for a Smart Building: Design and Implementation

TL;DR

This paper presents the design and implementation of a modular IoT-based smart building prototype that adapts to residents' needs, optimizing comfort and operational costs through real-time data collection and control.

Contribution

It introduces a generic, modular testbed for smart buildings utilizing IoT solutions, enabling real-time data management and testing of cyber-physical systems.

Findings

Successful real-time data collection and visualization

Adaptive control of environmental parameters

Versatile platform for cyber-physical systems testing

Abstract

This paper addresses the design and implementation of a smart building prototype. The implementation utilizes Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to collect, analyze, and manage data from building systems in a smart city environment. The developed smart building prototype is capable of real-time interactions with the residents. The main objective is to adapt the building settings to the residents needs and provide the maximum comfort level with minimum operational costs. For this purpose, building parameters are collected via the sensors and transferred to a database in real-time, which can be accessed or visualized upon the users need. Environment properties such as temperature, light, humidity, audio, video, surveillance, and access status are managed through a model-based controller. The developed testbed and control scheme are generic and modular. The prototype can also be utilized for testing cyber-physical systems features and challenges.