The Internet of Things (IoT) is ushering in a whole new era of connected devices; from wireless thermostats, security systems to smart phones and smart watches, monitoring and control of remote devices has reached the mainstream consumer market. However, enterprise IoT applications are more complex. Smart building control solutions, one of the core applications for enterprise IoT, need robust design, high availability, redundancy and architecture designed to scale in order to satisfy high performance requirements. Moreover, many facilities have proprietary building management systems and many systems rely on different communication protocols (BACnet, Modbus, LonWorks) to exchange information. Integrating disparate systems, getting them to communicate using a standard protocol and providing interoperability across devices is the biggest roadblock preventing the IoT from reaching its true potential for the Enterprise market. Lighting permeates almost every urban space and is seen as the perfect network on which to roll out value in the Internet of Things. In a […]