Evaluating Appropriate Strategies for Commercial Buildings’ Automation Utilizing the Internet of Things in Tehran

Today, smart buildings, which combine sensors and actuators, allow owners to save energy, increase security, provide users with information about their work environment, and operate directly on the building via the Internet. Indoor environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, lighting, and air quality are monitored by IoT sensors in smart buildings. In this paper, we propose a smart building solution for managing the indoor environment based on the Internet of Things, which aims to provide functions such as monitoring the environmental parameters of the room and detecting the number of users in the space. It is also a cloud platform where virtual entities collect data obtained by sensors and cloud virtual entities perform data analysis tasks using system learning algorithms. This cloud platform also includes a control dashboard for managing and controlling the building. The goal of this article is to define, develop, and present the results of a project that uses sensors in a standard business center to monitor and condition business units using Internet of Things technologies. The arrangement and location of the sensors are explained in this study, followed by the sensors used, wireless interfaces, and cloud technologies. The project results are presented using Bluemix and Node Red.