Everyday I spend something like 8 hours in a building I've been told is "smart." I've been told this by the maintenance staff after they had to be called to the room to turn the lights back on (they shut off by themselves and wouldn't respond to the switches). I've been told this by other members of the maintenance staff after they had to come adjust the airflow in the room which had started blasting at airport-level noise (there isn't even a switch on the wall for that one). I've even been told the building is smart by the Dean of my business school as the lights came down midway through a start-of-term presentation.
Clearly I've been misinformed. My question is, had they?
As you'll see in this video, what most people call a smart building isn't really a smart building at all. It's just a building with a few automated processes (most of which only kind of work).
I for one am looking forward to the day I'm not lulled to sleep by dimming lights and rudely awoken by blaring fans (brought to me by the IoT).
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