Smart monitoring solution through internet of things utilization to achieve resilient preservation

Abstract

Despite the theoretical benefits of utilizing technology to support resilience in smart cities, however there is a need to validate its application on heritage buildings and communities to transform the traditional preservation process into a smart monitoring and maintenance process. Thus, this paper aims to develop and validate a novel framework for resilient preservation that integrates resilience with innovative technology then design a smart solution to work as a tool for transforming heritage buildings into smart buildings. To achieve this, number of research methods have been adopted: Firstly, literature of theoretical background, to identify the value of heritage buildings and the characteristics of resilience technique to preserve smart buildings. Secondly, defining the roles of specific technologies to practically implement resilience by providing the results of an interview survey of the observations of 54 professionals working in related fields. Thirdly, propose a solution for smart monitoring of several factors that influence degradation of heritage buildings and increase the efficiency and adaptability of the resilient preservation process, through the help of an extensive discussions that were held with staff members of the second-largest software company worldwide. The results are a novel validated framework for smart heritage buildings that integrate resilience technique with historic building information modeling and internet of things to work as a tool for the practical implementation of resilience in the preservation process, then applying the framework attributes to work as inputs for the proposed solution to maximize the benefits and automatically apply the theories with high accuracy and long-term efficiency.