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Intelligent buildings apply technologies to improve the building

environment and functionality for occupants/tenants while controlling
costs, improving security, comfort and accessibility.

Efficient, Safe, Comfortable

INTELLIGENT BUILDING
Intelligent buildings are buildings that through their
physical design and IT installations are responsive,
flexible and adaptive to changing needs from its
users and the organizations that inhabit the building
during it's life time. The building will supply services
for its inhabitants, its administration and operation
& maintenance. The intelligent building will
accomplish transparent 'intelligent' behavior, have
state memory, support human and installation
systems communication, and be equipped with
sensors and actuators.

Building Smart, Building

Green

Smart building technologies can

improve buildings energy efficiency
and indoor environmental quality.

Commonalities
Green Building

Smart Building

Integrated design
Eco-friendly materials
Individual comfort control
Ecological site Indoor environmental quality
planning
Advanced security
Productive workplace
and
Flexibility
communications
Water efficiency
systems
Energy efficiency
Advanced
Automatic climate responsestructural system
Transportation
efficiency

Advanced controls

Intelligent Building Characteristics

Designed around Users

Improves Security
Enhances Comfort
Provides Energy Savings
Enterprise-wide Energy Monitoring
Everything Communicates
Local Command and Control
Remote Command and Control
Accessible from Anywhere
The right data to the right people
Affordable
Adds Value

Intelligent building
characteristics (1)
1.

be flexible and responsive to different usage and environmental

contexts such as office, home, hotel, and industry invoking
different kinds of loads from nature, people, and building systems,

2.

be able to change states (clearly defined) with respect to functions

and user demands over time and building spaces (easy to program
and re-program during use)

3.

support human communication (between individuals and groups)

4.

provide transparent intelligence and be simple and understandable

to the users (support ubiquitous computers and networks)

Per Christiansson (2000)

Kjeld Svidt, Aalborg University 29.11.2002

Intelligent building
characteristics (2)
5.

have a distributed long term and short term memory

6.

contain tenant, O&M, and administration service systems

7.

support introduction of new (sometimes not yet defined)

services

8.

be equipped with sensors (stationary and mobile) for direct or

indirect input and manipulation of signals from users,
systems and the building structure

9.

be equipped with actuators for direct or indirect manipulation

installations and the building structure
Per Christiansson (2000)

Kjeld Svidt, Aalborg University 29.11.2002

Intelligent building
characteristics (3)
10.

accomplish 'intelligent' behavior (self diagnosis, trigger

actions on certain events and even learn from use)

11.

integrate different IBI systems to form complex systems

12.

contain IBI life time standardized solutions as far as possible

13.

be well documented (in 3D with functional descriptions)

available in Virtual Reality with physical structure overlay

Per Christiansson (2000)

Kjeld Svidt, Aalborg University 29.11.2002

Intelligent building
characteristics (4)
14.

provide canalization (information roads) that shall house

'wires' carrying new services

15.

be able to handle high band width information transfer.

16.

provide dynamic secure information domains (i.e. not

based on a non-routed Ethernet in a residential block)

Per Christiansson (2000)

Kjeld Svidt, Aalborg University 29.11.2002

Intelligent Building history

1980

(1)

Yoneji Masuda writes the book 'Information Sociey' about

changes in society, infornation and knowledge industries,
participatory democracy, examples from Japan.

1982

AT&T establish the concept "INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS" due to

marketing reasons.
The INFORMART building is erected in Dallas

1984-85

The Smart House Development USA (National Association of

Home Builders, NAHB).
'Automated Buildings', 'High Tech. Buildings', 'Smart Houses'.
STS, Shared Tenants Services (using PABX, private automatic
branch exchange, is an automatic telephone switching system
within a private enterprise)--->
CSM, Communication Service Management.

Kjeld Svidt, Aalborg University 29.11.2002

INFORMART
BUILDING

TheInfomartis one of the

largest buildings inDallas,
Texas(USA). It is the worlds
first and only information
processing marketing center.
The building's hospital-grade
electrical power is supplied
by 4 independent electric
feeds and six in-building
transformer substations,
providing a very reliable
source. More than 16 fiber
providers have a physical
presence at the Infomart,
allowing 8,700 strands of
fiber into the building with
bandwidth capacity near 26
trillion bytes per second.

Intelligent Building history

(2)

1986: Seminar in Lund

man/machine environment poor
lack of knowledge
information vulnerability
flexibility requirements
no holistic problems view
coordination and procurement forms not
adequate
lack of standards

Kjeld Svidt, Aalborg University 29.11.2002

Intelligent Building history

1987
N.Y. Times "I.B. is a dumb idea".

1990
LonWorks technology work starts

1999
Bluetooth wireless communication
LonWorks use

Home Automation, 15%

Industry Automation, 35%
Building Automation, 35%
Transport, etc.., 15%

Kjeld Svidt, Aalborg University 29.11.2002

(3)

LonWorks

LonWorks(local operating network) is a

networking platform specifically created to
address the needs of control applications.
The platform is built on a protocol created
byEchelon Corporationfor networking
devices over media such as twisted pair,
powerlines,fiber optics, andRF. It is used
for the automation of various functions
within buildings such as lightingandHVAC
; seebuilding automation.

tomorrows energy efficient

buildings would have
A structure and walls of such insulation performance

that only 50 kWh/m2/year would suffice to achieve

ideal thermal comfort
All of its equipment to the optimal energy

performance level (lighting, HVAC, office devices, )

Intelligence everywhere that would seamlessly handle

energy usage optimization whilst guaranteeing

optimal comfort, a healthy environment and
numerous other services (security, assistance to
elderly people, )
Renewable and non polluting energy sources
The ability to satisfy its own energy needs (thermal

and/or electric) or even contribute excess power to

the community (zero/positive energy buildings)
Users whose behaviors would have evolved towards a

reasoned usage of energy

MIT / CBA Conference / May
10, 2006