Building Management Systems Explained: Advanced Control For Smart Buildings

This book presents building management systems' advanced control methods and techniques for use within smart buildings. Building upon the first book in the series, Building Management System Explained: Understanding Controllers and Field Devices, the reader gains a greater understanding of networks, protocols, naming ontologies, feedforward and fuzzy logic control, machine learning and finally demand response control for use within the smart building environment. The reader gains the knowledge required to specify, design, install, commission or troubleshoot a building management system for use within a smart building environment.

It is assumed the reader has an engineering level of mathematics, though, through the use of worked examples, this knowledge is not always required. Aimed at engineers of all levels wishing to understand the implementation of not only building management systems but any control system within the smart building environment.

The aim of this book is to help both companies and individuals change the way they think about controlling smart buildings. This shift from feedback to advanced control techniques is vital to help achieve Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB).

Robert O’Connor is a Chartered Engineer and Certified Energy Manager with over 20 years of experience in the building management system industry. He has worked on all sides of the building management system industry, both in Ireland and Globally. Having started in the field of Instrumentation and having worked on installing, commissioning and troubleshooting building management systems as well a consulting engineer. Robert has experience designing building management systems across a range of industries from data centres, healthcare, pharmaceutical, educational and general-purpose buildings.