The Impact of Wireless Sensors in Buildings Automation
Fábio da Silva Rodrigues, Carlos Cardeira, João M. F. Calado, Rua Conselheiro, Emídio Navarro · 2010
The automation of a building requires a huge number of cables that highly increase the installation costs. At the physical level, wireless plays an important role towards flexibility and self- configuration in building automation. With the use of wireless technologies it is expected to reduce total costs of ownership and maintenance in new building automation systems. Wireless systems could easy provide old buildings with relatively low cost, automation functionalities. The paper presents the state-of-art in this knowledge domain discussing the advantages and handicaps of wireless approaches in building automation.