ITU-T Recommendations

The concept of "intelligent buildings" has been around for a number of years and has relied on the ability of individual systems within the buildings to communicate, to integrate and to perform in a manner allowing for numerous, complex, controls to generate a much-enhanced response to many kinds of stimuli. Thus, the argument of intelligence can reasonably be associated with the ability of these buildings to function in an enhanced manner yielding many benefits for the occupants, the operators and the owners. This Supplement provides a number of examples of "intelligent buildings", while describing the benefits and efficiencies generated by such integration.