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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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How smart is your building

In the previous chapter, we identified a method to identify the smart building requirements from several different perspectives and multiple stakeholders. Recently, several industry associations and alliances across the world have introduced smart building assessment and certification programs. This is an area that I know very well, as I was instrumental in conceptualizing the industry’s first smart building assessment and certification program with the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA).

The idea to develop a certification program initialized from wanting to provide owners and operators a methodology to understand where their building currently stood in terms of smartness, and then for them to develop a strategic plan to evolve that smartness. Many building owners and operators implemented individual projects that added some degree of smartness, such as smart lighting, smart thermostats, and/or energy efficiency improvements, but few...

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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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