IN-PERSON: Livable Cities – New York

Abstract

Digital solutions are enhancing almost every aspect of our lives as society moves towards adopting them. Meanwhile, professionals gradually recognize the need to limit the negative impacts of the built environment to safeguard life and people’s welfare. In this era of the fourth industrial revolution, the Internet of Things (IoT) has begun to gain unbridled growth in buildings and cities to enhance indoor environmental quality. Due to this progression, proficient and experienced experts in the built environment lack the knowledge they need to implement IoT effectively. This work aims to form a comprehensive survey of the extant literature and discuss the application, opportunities, and limitations of IoT solutions as well as the best practices in the integration of IoT in indoor environmental quality sensing. We will also discuss different approaches and techniques to detect, monitor, and enhance thermal comfort and air quality in buildings using IoT. This work is part of an ongoing Architecture Ph.D. project that aims to create a framework for IoT-based environmental sensing in buildings. Through the literature review presented in this paper, we will provide insight into the strategies and approaches to IoT-IEQ and present a proposed methodology to develop an integrated Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) to navigate, sense, and visualize data to optimize the performance of building operations.