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platformed-based solution. However, to reach open integration, every component must be “open” to enable the best providers to compete and integrate. Let’s examine each component of Smart Building Infrastructure:
Operational Technology (OT) Network
To deploy the IoT devices and gain access to the data from all the building technology systems, a converged OT Network is necessary. What was accomplished
in the past with separate vertical networks can now be accomplished with network virtualization. Each system can
meet its own unique communications and security requirements and sub-systems are able to communicate with predetermined logical access routes. This topology can extend to the network security layer, allowing remote access to each individual system without exposing the remaining systems. This creates a layered
security approach that also provides visibility to all systems and components for network management.
Open-Integrated Operating Technology (OT)
The development of an IoT-based integrated sustainability dashboard requires a platform for interconnected devices. The data from IoT meters
and sensors needs to go somewhere and owners
today expect to control their building data. Niagara
is quickly becoming the operating system for the Internet of Things in the built environment. Its open API, open-distribution business model, and open-protocol support provides the freedom to scale up and down with meters and sensors, as desired, in a building.
The Niagara platform connects and controls devices while normalizing, visualizing, and analyzing data from nearly anywhere. The Niagara platform is flexible and expandable to a single building or many buildings.
Fortunately, the market for open-integrated data aggregators is not limited to Niagara. Alternatives to Niagara include Distech Controls, Johnson Controls Facility Explorer, Honeywell WEBs, Vykon, and others.
OPEN-INTEGRATED MEASUREMENT & VERIFICATION
Open-Integrated Operating Technology (OT)
Meters & Sensors (IoT)
Real-Time Database & Historian
Human Machine Interface (HMI)
Meters and Sensors (Internet of Things)
The number of IoT devices increased 31 percent year- over-year to 8.4 billion in 2017, and it is estimated that there will be 30 billion IoT devices by the end of this year. IoT meters and sensors are cost effective tools to track building performance. The risk to building owners is that, without careful planning and thoughtful consideration
of network architecture, the addition of IoT devices may quickly become confusing, disconnected, expensive and inefficient.
Smart Building Infrastructure permits the easy deployment of new IoT and the quick retirement of obsolete IoT. Remaining platform and network neutral gives building owners the control, transparency and ongoing access to all data ensuring they are never beholden to proprietary IoT solutions.
For high-performance buildings, the minimum required deployment of IoT includes a whole-building operational model, primary source digital utility meters, indoor air quality monitors, Building Automation Systems – Building Management Systems (BAS-BMS) integration, weather station, and outdoor air-quality station.
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