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Smart Buildings: AI-Powered Efficiency and Sustainability

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AI is used in smart buildings for energy management, maintenance, sensors, comfort systems, and infrastructure decisions that still need oversight. It looks at where AI is already earning its keep in smart buildings, where the claims run ahead of the evidence, and what sensible adoption actually looks like.

What does this preview cover?

It maps the practical applications, the operational pinch points, the decision workflows, and the reliability questions that appear when AI moves from demo to deployment in smart buildings.

What questions does the full book tackle?

• Where AI is already being used in construction today — and where sensors meet maintenance budgets.
• The less glamorous but more useful part is building ops, costs, and comfort.
• Key themes including planning, site safety, computer vision, digital twins.
• The limits, risks, and awkward questions worth asking before you sign off on the sales pitch.

Smart buildings is one of those areas where AI can help, but only if the claims survive contact with cost, safety, scheduling, and energy use. That is where this book keeps its attention.