Published on 04/25/2017 | Technology
Our customers ask us to integrate so many different devices and data types that we quickly learned an important lesson: closed systems do not scale. To be Open empowers more contributors, more innovation, and a wider range of options. CANDI welcomes not only players who complement our services, but also those that compete with us or who today have no direct relationship to our positioning. By being Open and able to interoperate on a variety of levels, together with a wide set of partners we can create better ways to solve our customers’ problems.
Most of our customers need products and applications built by people who know better than we do about solving specific problems in smart buildings, smart cities and smart grid. We bring value to those relationships by providing Open connectivity across different devices, protocols and services.
The benefit to our customers is the ability to choose from and combine best-in-class partner solutions, for operational efficiency, energy savings, asset management and other applications. With Open connectivity, our customers can reduce the risk of becoming captive to siloed ecosystems or limited-range solutions.
As in any market, the most popular constituencies in IoT will eventually define what constitutes “Open.” Open isn’t perfect; it won’t include everything. Its definition will morph. And being Open doesn’t force interoperability. But Open does catalyze creativity, participation and partnerships.
CANDI strives to be Open by enabling interoperability among today’s leading IoT standards in the smart buildings market. Our goal is to provide customers with access to normalized data in the most widely-used formats, regardless of the data’s initial format or the protocol or transport layer across which it travels. This requires us to understand and manage libraries of drivers for many smart building protocols, devices and cloud services (BACnet, Modbus, ZigBee, LonMark, IP/Wi-Fi, Z-Wave, JSON, Microsoft; meters, sensors, switches, BAS controllers and more) and keep pace as they evolve over time. This is CANDI’s imperative to enable a more Open IoT Environment.
This article is Part 2 of a four-part series.
This article was originally posted on CANDI's blog.
