Machine Learning and the Internet Of Things for Smart Buildings: A state of the art survey

As we are living in the era of the internet of things and machine learning technologies, it becomes a necessity to make our buildings smarter. A smart building is any structure that employs automated procedures to handle various building activities, such as heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, security, as well as other systems, utilizing sensors, actuators, and microchips to collect data and use it for business purposes and services. This paper provides a precise definition and some distinctive features of smart buildings, it also reviews the various aspects of smart buildings from a global approach with a special focus on ML analytics and IoT technologies.