1st Edition

Intelligent Buildings and Building Automation

By Shengwei Wang Copyright 2010
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Giving you a combination of general principles, applied practice and information on the state-of-the-art, this book will give you the information you need to incorporate the latest systems and technologies into your building projects. It focuses on a number of important issues, such as: Network communication protocols and standards, including the application of the internet. The... Read more

1 Introduction to Intelligent Buildings

2 Digital Controllers

3 Building Management Systems

4 Principles of Local Area Networks

5 Communication Standards for BMS

6 Internet Technologies and their Applications in Buildings

7 Process Control, PID and Adaptive Control

8 Control and Optimisation of Air-conditioning Systems

9 Control and Optimisation of Chilling Systems

10 Security and Access Control

11 Other Major Building Management Systems

Biography

Shengwei Wang is a chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he teaches Intelligent Building, Building Automation and Control, and Energy Efficiency. He is a member of ASHRAE technical committee TC-7.5 (Smart Building Systems).

"The style used by the author is one that makes the early chapters of the book highly accessible to students readers, and should leave them well-prepared to take on the more detailed information in the later stages.[...] Provides a good description of the principles behind intelligent buildings and describes several areas of possible application of the principles outlined in the early chapters."

- Construction Management and Economics