Smart Buildings are a new age in the construction industry. Future buildings will anticipate the needs of the building users to provide improved comfort, greater user control, and better energy efficiency. By incorporating the use of data sharing on standard networks within building networks. Introducing Building Automation System (BAS). A way to make buildings 'smart'. These cenrralized BAS Systems control all the facilities within a building merging A/C, lighting, heat and other similar features and intergrating them into one standard IT infrastructure.

Adding control of building features noramlly assocaited with the facilities, in one combined network structure controlled by one centralized hub aimed specifically at energy conservation can greatly help reduce costs and is an implementation which is easy to adapt for bot accomodation and corporate structures.

Converging the building facility infrstaructure with the IT infrastrcture operated within the building is similar to the way many businesses have utilized the convergence of Telephone systems and IT networks.