A smart home is focused on the single home context, where devices and appliances in your home integrate they and communicate with each other.
It has less technical equipment than a smart building, and in a smart building efficiency is much more important.
A smart home is more likely to be fully ‘digital’ and remotely controllable via the Internet.
Smart home technology is kind of a precursor of what is coming to smart buildings, what is happening in smart homes now will eventually follow in smart buildings.
A smart building is any structure that uses automated processes to automatically control the building's operations including heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, communication, security and other systems.
IoT devices in commercial buildings or residential homes enable a variety of applications and provide benefits related to automation, convenience and energy efficiency — these benefits will resonate among building managers, homeowners, tenants, and even renters