A Smart Building is called many things - High Performance Building, Automated Building, Intelligent Building, etc.  A smart building is both a product and a process.  In short, the goal of a smart building is to decrease first costs, decrease operating cost (including energy), decrease the environmental impact and increase occupant comfort, convenience, and safety.  It does this by adjusting and modifying the traditional design and construction process and using technology to bett../MORE

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A Smart Building is called many things - High Performance Building, Automated Building, Intelligent Building, etc.  A smart building is both a product and a process.  In short, the goal of a smart building is to decrease first costs, decrease operating cost (including energy), decrease the environmental impact and increase occupant comfort, convenience, and safety.  It does this by adjusting and modifying the traditional design and construction process and using technology to better manage and maintain the building.   A smart building integrates building technology systems at a physical, logical and application level; horizontally among all subsystems and vertically to facility management and business systems.  Systems may include building automation, life safety and security, telecommunications and power, energy and enterprise management systems and information management software.  The integration design of a smart building should include structured cable, open network protocols and standardized databases and take advantage of existing and emerging technology.