Designing intelligent buildings for people's well-being using an artificial intelligence approach

Technology has always influenced the way that buildings are constructed. It will also influence the way intelligent buildings are constructed, as the successful development of computational technologies, hardware and software over the last decades makes its way into the area of building control and equipment. From the hardware point of view, the miniaturisation of technology has led to more processing power on the same surface area of a chip, while the increased number of units sold has made technology more affordable. The situation is a little bit different with regard to the software used in buildings, due to the fact that a software engineer needs to have a degree in building services systems to be able to abstract how a building is working and create software for building control. Therefore, there is still a long way to go until the full potential of advanced computing technologies is used on a large scale in intelligent building control, in part due to the technology itself and in part due to the stakeholders’ interests.