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Published inMar 2023
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ISBN-139781804619865
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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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Smart building architecture to pull components together

Existing buildings, and even buildings under design and construction today, consist of independently designed and implemented building systems. The HVAC system is separate from the security system, the lighting system is completely separate from the water system, and so on. Each of these systems is designed, deployed, and even maintained by different engineering and maintenance disciplines with little to no cross-over between trades.

Each discipline competes for capital resources to acquire the latest and greatest technology, but often, each is value-engineered (an approach to get to the lowest cost possible) down to the basic requirements. Because of this, we can say that smart buildings are essentially designed from the bottom up, system by system, resulting in a collection of systems trying to communicate with each other.

If we are to achieve all the benefits a truly smart building has to offer, we need to approach it...

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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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