A novel design for a comprehensive smart automation system for the office environment

A comprehensive smart office system is designed in this paper. Based on analyses of different kinds of scenarios, the corresponding sub-systems for ventilating, heating, lighting etc are realized respectively. On the basis of the investigation of an independent office, the smart system is expanded to the whole building, ie. smart office building. Then the corresponding subsystems are achieved for controlling the supporting facilities of the smart building. As an organic entirety, it is user-centric and sensitive to the context. In order to promote the usability of the smart office system, two alternative modes are designed, ie. automatic mode and manual mode. Although manual mode is viewed as a supplement of the automatic mode, it is given by higher priority.