Intelligent buildings: smart today. Smart tomorrow
The definition of an intelligent building has varied slightly as new technologies emerge. Such buildings will contain most of the following elements: a building computer, communications integration, computer integration, and miscellaneous services, such as document storage, retrieval, and reproduction. Developments in this field in the future are likely to include: continued decentralization of computer power, large databases but much cheaper mass storage, movement toward personal communication, substitution of communication for transportation, and periods of increased security requirements, restrictions on private transportation, and changes in personnel policy. Planning necessary to ensure a long intelligence life for a building must include stress on fundamentals (location and inherent energy efficiency, access, and appearance), design for easy change, an awareness of history and trends, and the use of current technology with the expectation of change.
- Research Organization:
- XENERGY, Inc., Burlington, MA
- OSTI ID:
- 5662884
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-860303-
- Journal Information:
- Energy Technol. (Wash., D.C.); (United States), Journal Name: Energy Technol. (Wash., D.C.); (United States) Vol. 13; ISSN ENTED
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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