📡 IoT · Network
Smart Building Sensor Network
The network of a smart office building: wireless sensors per floor, BACnet building systems, gateways and the building management system.
Drawing diagram…
What this diagram shows
- Battery sensors use Zigbee or LoRa; HVAC uses BACnet
- Floor gateways join everything onto one building network
- The BMS and cloud analytics sit behind a firewall
Prompt used
Network topology of a smart building: each floor has occupancy, temperature and air quality sensors on Zigbee, smart lighting controllers and a floor gateway. HVAC chillers and air handlers speak BACnet/IP to the building management system. Access control and CCTV are on their own VLANs. Floor gateways connect over the building LAN to the BMS server; a firewall links to the cloud analytics platform.
Mermaid code
flowchart LR
subgraph F1[Floor 1]
S1[Occupancy and temperature sensors]
L1[Lighting controllers]
G1[Floor gateway]
end
subgraph F2[Floor 2]
S2[Air quality sensors]
L2[Lighting controllers]
G2[Floor gateway]
end
S1 -.Zigbee.- G1
L1 --- G1
S2 -.Zigbee.- G2
L2 --- G2
HVAC[Chillers and AHUs] ---|BACnet/IP| LAN[Building LAN]
G1 --- LAN
G2 --- LAN
ACC[Access control VLAN] --- LAN
CCTV[CCTV VLAN] --- LAN
LAN --- BMS[Building Management System]
BMS --- FW{{Firewall}} --- CLOUD[Cloud analytics]Related templates
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