Internet of Things for Green Building Management

Abstract

The expansion and development of advanced technology by mankind have a great substantial impact on the natural environment. The buildings consume a large number of natural resources during their construction, design, and operation process. Due to the manipulation of natural resources by the buildings on a large scale, there is a need of better-designed buildings for effective and efficient use of resources. The concept of “green buildings” is an innovative solution for the aforementioned issues and promotes eco-friendly activities. Internet of things (IoT) transforms the idea of green building into real. Considering a large number of IoT applications, the objective of this chapter is to survey the major IoT concepts for green building management. The survey is conducted by summarizing a large number of scientific contributions to the field (i.e., internet of things for green buildings) and presented in this study. This chapter also describes the open research challenges for future work in this emergent area.