Buildings, a Profitable Industry

Next time you're walking down the street, look at the buildings and skyscrapers around you. The construction industry is devouring big and small cities. Perhaps the increase in population and migration to cities is the primary cause. More population requires more houses, bigger treatment centers, broader services, and in one word, more buildings. However, the quality of these buildings is not always equal to their quantity.

Internet of Things, Champion of Disrupt

To improve the quality and experience of being in buildings, many changes can be done in the field of construction, design, and decoration. One of the best approaches to improve this industry is technology-based smart buildings. Technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and its integration with other technologies like artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning have simplified real-time monitoring, remote controlling, and providing analysis to increase productivity.

IoT technology plays a key role in the development of smart city, smart fleet, smart energy, and smart farming solutions. Here, you can see some impressive IoT applications for making buildings smart:

• Smart cooling, heating, and air conditioning systems (HVAC)

• Smart fire alarm and environmental monitoring systems

• Smart lighting and energy management

• Smart meters for monitoring and controlling energy in real-time

• Tracking people and loads inside the building

• Detecting occupancy and vacancy of rooms

• Detecting high-consumption equipment

• Applying predictive maintenance

• Forecasting the amount of energy consumption and costs

You probably have a thousand other ideas reaching your creative mind now that you know better about the rising building industry and the power of IoT in this sector. But, when applying IoT capabilities to implement your ideas, you will need certain skills and tools. Thingspod can be a dreamy tool to make your ideas come true!

ThingsPod, the Ideal Tool

ThingsPod is a comprehensive Internet of Things platform for managing your IoT devices, which makes processing, storing, and displaying data fast, easy, and delightful.

You can send all sorts of data related to the vehicle location, cargo status, and driver behavior to the ThingsPod platform using smart devices (nodes). Thingspod supports many web protocols such as MQTT, HTTP, and CoAP and other industrial protocols such as Modbus, OPC-UA, and LoRaWAN. Then, you will be able to process your data from fleet devices through platform programming blocks and display the information by default widgets.

In ThingsPod, you can manage buildings in the following ways:

• Collecting different data from equipment, people, and other devices

• Using Rules Engine for processing the gathered data and generating alerts

• Calculating data and sending information to external systems

• Displaying historical or real-time data by flexible dashboards

• Defining Roles for managing users’ access to devices and dashboards

• Remote control and OTA update for smart devices

• Sending information with custom frameworks to external user apps

• Achieving all initiatives with almost no coding!