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THE DEFINITION OF INTELLIGENT BUILDING

1.1. INTRODUCTION

Intelligent Buildings (IBs) were advocated by UTBS Corporation (United Technology Building

Systems Corporation) in the USA in 1!1" and became a reality in #uly" 1!$ with the

inauguration o% the City &lace Building in 'art%ord" Connecticut" USA The UTBS Corporation

was responsible %or controlling and operating such shared euipment as air*

conditioningeuipment" elevators and disaster prevention devices The company %urther provided each tenant

with communication and shared tenant services" such as o%%ice automation services" using local

area networ+s (,A-s)" digital private automatic branch e.changes (&AB/s) and computers The

'art%ord Building was advertised as the world0s %irst

intelligent building hat do we mean by

intelligence2 3ne view is that intelligence is considered to be an innate" general cognitive ability

underlying all processes o% conventional reasoning

Up to now" there has not been a universally accepted de%inition %or IBs 'owever" it appears

that most designers agree with the statement that 4IBs are not intelligent but they can ma+e

the occupants more intelligent5 Actually" most e.isting de%initions o% IBs around the world

are trying to ensure a building is suitable %or the occupants to wor+ and live in sa%ely"

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Building Ser%ices(#!ce automation, %oice, data Building Sstems

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IBs help building owners" property managers" and occupants reali7e their goals in the areas o%

cost" com%ort" convenience" sa%ety" long*term %le.ibility and mar+etability There is no

intelligence threshold past which a building 4passes5 or 4%ails5 3ptimal building intelligence

is the matching o% solutions to occupant needs 8urthermore" the IBI stated that 4there is no

%i.ed set o% characteristics that de%ines an IB5 In %act" the only characteristic which all IBs

have in common is a structure designed to accommodate changes in a convenient" cost*

e%%ective manner IBI tried to put the emphasis on the availability o% technologies

1$ . THE DEFINITION OF IB IN EUROPE

The U< based ;uropean Intelligent Building 9roup de%ined an IB as one that 4creates an

environment which ma.imi7es the e%%ectiveness o% the building occupants while at the same

time enabling e%%icient management o% resources with minimum li%e*time costs o% hardware

and %acilities5 Based on this de%inition" building providers and developers need to understand

precisely what sort o% buildings they should develop that will be both pro%itable and able to

meet the users0 increasingly comple. reuirements In%ormation technology (IT) suppliers

need to understand the relationship between the building" its occupiers and the computer

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