Controlling intelligent buildings-a user perspective

Discusses the role that organisational modelling will have in developing controls for intelligent buildings. The paper suggests a simple organisation model and derives consequential control requirements from this. It is argued that this approach should prove to be of significant benefit for intelligent buildings as their success is dependent upon understanding and pre-empting the demands of the occupants. Organisational classification has a clear role to play in this process having already proven itself to be of benefit in the fields of space planning and service design