I was very impressed with the quality overall of this week’s blog posts. In many cases I learned more about your term projects from the posts than I did from reading the outlines.
Intelligent Building Definition
A number of you commented on the confusing array of definitions of an “Intelligent Building” in the literature and industry more generally. While I have no problem with your disputing what follows I suggest that you consider how I defined it during the first week of class.
¨Intelligence requires the use of adaptive computer technology.
¨“Intelligence” may exist in any system or phase of the building process.
¨We may thus talk of
- Intelligent Building Industry
- Intelligent Building Design
- Intelligent Building Construction (including renovation)
- Intelligent Building Operation
- We may also subdivide by systems – structure, HVAC etc.”
Sensors
A number of you are working with sensors in one manner or another.
- I suggest, as I did in class, that it’s important to distinguish between the sensors and the software/hardware that makes use of the sensor data.
- It is particularly useful to understand what the sensor is actually measuring (e.g. change in resistance for a strain gauge) to understand its properties and limitations.
Sources
Even when describing your term projects there are almost certainly outside sources that you have (or will) investigated that are relevant to your project. It’s important to identify them.
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