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The current state of smart buildings often leaves much to be desired, as their intelligence is limited and their systems are not interconnected. However, the future holds great potential for transforming these buildings.
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The Bitter Truth About Smart Homes
Error in perception
Transforming Unintelligent Buildings into Intelligent Spaces
Industry Breakthrough: Components of a Real Smart Home
The Power of Human-Centered Design
What does the future hold?
Based on the article "Why 'Smart Buildings' need to get truly smart" by Dr. Shrikant B Sharma, AEC Magazine

Dr. Shrikant B. Sharma, Founder and CEO of SmartViz, sets out to understand the inefficiencies of smart homes, the harsh reality behind them, and of course, share ways to disrupt the building industry and make buildings truly smart.

The Bitter Truth About Smart Homes
Let's face it: smart buildings are not really that smart. Yes, they are equipped with the latest technology, the latest building management systems (BMS), sensors, LED lights, intelligent control systems, smart elevators, and so on.

But these buildings aren’t intelligent. They don’t know how many people are in them or where they are. So they continue to heat and cool floors and rooms even when they’re empty or half empty. Sensors and home control systems can turn lights on and off, but they don’t adjust CO2 levels based on crowding, space elevators based on the number of people on floors at peak times, or track the percentage of energy used relative to the number of occupants to reduce carbon emissions.

The data collected by a smart control system is often proprietary. And the so-called smart phone number indonesia components are tied to a supplier and do not connect with each other. Their actions are completely opaque, so you will never know if they are working properly or even at all! If only you could let them “talk” to each other. But no, that’s not possible.

So the hard truth is that most smart homes are not that smart, they are not data-driven, and they are certainly not people-centric.

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Smart homes were originally intended to have outstanding tools for balancing energy consumption, improving people's quality of life, and optimizing the operation of various building systems. In practice, this often turns out to be not the case.

Disregard for man
The reason smart homes fail to live up to their original vision is because they neglect people. Buildings should be designed and operated to provide comfortable, productive, and safe living environments for people. However, most control systems focus only on automation and data flow and do not consider how the space affects the occupants. This oversight results in suboptimal environmental conditions, and people lose touch with the smart system.

And they develop sick building syndrome, lag in productivity, become distracted at work, put their lives and health at risk at home, and are unable to concentrate on their studies in schools, colleges and universities.

Disjointed systems and data overload
Another challenge smart homes face is the fragmentation of systems and the inability to effectively use the available data. Data overload further exacerbates this situation, making it difficult to extract actionable insights and implement meaningful changes.

Transforming Unintelligent Buildings into Intelligent Spaces
The smart building transformation involves going beyond the simple implementation of technology. It requires designers to think about creating structures that seamlessly blend technology with the human experience.

Where BIM, BMS, and BEMS (building energy management system) have failed to improve building performance and the Internet of Things (IoT), digital twins and artificial intelligence are paving the way for true building intelligence. Simple, low-cost, self-adhesive sensors integrated with intuitive digital twins and access to real-time building analytics can revolutionize the concept of smart buildings by removing these inherent limitations.

So what will it take for these technologies to make buildings truly smart?

Industry Breakthrough: Components of a Real Smart Home
The key components for creating truly intelligent buildings are:

Internet of Things for intelligent system interconnectivity.
Simple, inexpensive sensors with adjustable sensitivity levels can be easily integrated into any building.

Cloud platform as a single source of truth.
Cloud technologies have come a long way and represent a reliable solution for collecting, processing and integrating data using a range of services for storage, analytics and security.

Digital twin as a platform for managing a smart home.
Digital twins are a virtual copy of a building. However, they are much more than just a 3D visualization. They are a living, breathing model of the building, with data streaming from sensors, real-time regulation by control systems, and optimization of all services. They also allow you to understand which parts of the building are used to the fullest extent, and which are not used at all. Which parts work well, which are not, and where significant energy savings can be made. In addition, they allow you to plan and optimize the behavior of individual building elements to save money and improve the quality of service for residents.