Proactive Mechanisms for Turning Smart Buildings to Cyber Smart Buildings in Artificial Intelligence Era

The impact of Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and the use of digital technologies has modernized all sectors. Smart buildings provide better construction quality, labour safety, monitoring, maintenance, comfort, sustainability and surveillance. Smart buildings are also one of the sensitive areas where cyber security principles and practices must be deployed rigorously considering the sensitivity of the data and the criticality of the impact of cyber-attack in such environments. In this work, a detailed study is made on the smart buildings and cyber-attacks on such critical infrastructures. Proactive mechanisms that can be integrated into smart buildings to ensure the minimum cyber safety of smart buildings are also presented in this work. These mechanisms can be used at all levels of smart buildings and can be followed to protect the smart buildings from most of the sophisticated modern attacks.