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Introduction Today's smart buildings are, in reality, industrial facilities behind polished facades. Mechanical rooms swing −20°C to +50°C (−4°F to +122°F), rooftops endure weather extremes, and utility spaces vibrate with dust and moisture. Consumer-grade electronics fail quickly in these environments, yet building owners still demand 99.9% uptime for systems ensuring safety, comfort, and operations. Achieving this requires digital systems designed for industrial harshness but expected to deliver enterprise reliability. Meeting this challenge requires more than rugged parts—it demands a full understanding of how power distribution, sensing, and data communication integrate as a complete connectivity ecosystem. This ebook explores each layer systematically, showing how purpose-built solutions bridge the gap between extreme conditions and intelligent automation. By examining real-world failures, proven design strategies, and advanced connectivity technologies, this guide highlights how engineers can prevent costly downtime while enabling smarter, more adaptive buildings. Mighty Guides make you stronger. Credible advice from top experts helps you make strong decisions. Strong decisions make you mighty. Reading a Mighty Guide is kind of like having your own team of experts. These authoritative and diverse guides provide a full view of a topic. They help you explore, compare, and contrast a variety of viewpoints so that you can determine what will work best for you. Mouser Electronics is an authorized semiconductor and electronic component distributor focused on New Product Introductions from its leading manufacturer partners. Serving the global electronic design engineer and buyer community, the global distributor's website, www.mouser.com, is available in multiple languages and currencies and features more than 6.8 million products from over 1,200 manufacturer brands. Mouser offers 28 support locations worldwide to provide best-in-class customer service in local language, currency and time zone. The distributor ships to over 650,000 customers in 223 countries/territories from its 1 million-square-foot, state-of-the-art distribution facilities in the Dallas, Texas, metro area. For more information, visit www.mouser.com. 4 Industrial-Grade Building Automation: Rugged, Reliable, Smart