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Published inMar 2023
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Harry G. Smeenk
Harry G. Smeenk
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Harry G. Smeenk

Harry Smeenk is a technology strategist and thought leader in smart buildings, IoT, edge data centers, and networks. He is an executive leader in the design, development, deployment, and integration of smart building IoT networks with Tapa Inc, and Smart Buildings Online LLC. He drove worldwide cross-industry technology roadmaps, best practices, and standards for the Telecom Industry Association. He conceptualized and developed the industry's first smart building rating program. As Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the North Texas Enterprise Center he helped launch and accelerate startups including 3 of his own. He has an MBA degree from the University of North Carolina and a BS degree in Business Management from St. John Fisher College.
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Digital twin smart building challenges

While digital twin and 3D technology do exist, smart building adoption will continue to face challenges, and many building owners see it as daunting and out of reach. Other challenges include the following:

  • Expensive: Adopting digital twin use for smart buildings is very expensive. Owners and operators with large portfolios can spread that cost across their portfolio, while smaller companies can choose to pick smaller low-hanging fruit projects and stagger implementations.
  • Lack of standards: There is a lack of real-time, open, and quality data formats, due in part to the lack of industry standards.

RealEstateCore is a Swedish consortium of building owners, software firms, and research institutions that developed an open source ontology, using Microsoft Azure Digital Twins and its Digital Twins Definition Language (DTDL). An ontology is a shared data model (or set of models) and the best practice for a domain such as an IoT system...

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Published in: Mar 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804619865

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Harry G. Smeenk

Harry Smeenk is a technology strategist and thought leader in smart buildings, IoT, edge data centers, and networks. He is an executive leader in the design, development, deployment, and integration of smart building IoT networks with Tapa Inc, and Smart Buildings Online LLC. He drove worldwide cross-industry technology roadmaps, best practices, and standards for the Telecom Industry Association. He conceptualized and developed the industry's first smart building rating program. As Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the North Texas Enterprise Center he helped launch and accelerate startups including 3 of his own. He has an MBA degree from the University of North Carolina and a BS degree in Business Management from St. John Fisher College.
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