Issues concerning IoT adoption for energy and comfort management in intelligent buildings in India

ABSTRACT User-centric, localized energy and comfort management solutions that are essential in commercial buildings are realized by IoT enabled building management systems, involving networked sensors and artificial intelligence-based data processing. This paper employs the Delphi method to identify the major issues concerning IoT adoption in India and examines these across the value chain, specific to energy and comfort management in intelligent buildings. The Delphi exercise involved 3 expert-panels, consisting of a total of 24 subject matter experts representing all important stakeholders across the intelligent building value chain. A total of 140 issues have been identified, grouped across 8 themes, and ranked, leading to the development of an ‘IoT adoption index’. A subset of the issues has been identified using two inputs from the literature, viz., key performance indicators of intelligent buildings and the business model canvas. The results can be practically used by the stakeholders while evaluating IoT systems for deployment in their projects. Further, the results should be useful in the context of intelligent buildings also in other emerging economies having similar climatic conditions.