Merging Augmented-Reality Interface with Smart Building Controls: Considerations for the Building User Interface

This paper looks at how emerging interactive extended reality (XR) technologies are being integrated with smart systems and the IoT in the context of the built environment. Specifically, it investigates the ways to extend this interoperability between AR and IoT into areas of construction, building use, facility management, and post-occupancy evaluation. The synergy between augmented reality (AR) and the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has a potential to go beyond mere visualization of captured data and provide active controls of building services in a user-specific context/perspective. These controls together with building environmental data overlays can serve as a building user interface connecting virtual and physical assets as well as users and building construction professionals.