IoT framework for smart buildings with cloud computing

The application domain of Urban Internet of Things systems are designed for the objective of the Smart City: to take advantage of the latest communication technologies in order to provide optimal services. One important element of Smart Cities is the Smart Building. Smart Building (SB) is a new concept where the building benefits from the development of automation and communication technologies to create smart environments which are more efficient in the use of the available resources and much more secure. Such smart systems are complex, dynamic and heterogeneous. Thus, SB need more and more computational power which can be obtained by using cloud computing. In this paper we present a framework used to provide the needed computational power to the SB by using Cloud Computing. Our idea is to have all the computational power as well as control and monitor capabilities in the cloud. We have evaluated and validated our approach by applying our framework in Sonora Tecnología Científica, a facility which is intended to be a Smart Building integrated to the Internet of Things.