Not a new organization; existing organizations are working together

Vision

To make commercial buildings more responsive to the needs of users by promoting a secure, multi-standard, IP-based harmonized IoT solution.

Mission

The IP-BLiS liaison parties, through collaboration and cooperation, will educate and influence the market regarding application framework standards over IP for commercial building connectivity through marketing and communications.

Goals

The members of IP-BLiS intend to align on a common network on-boarding and shared secure network communication procedures to be applied in administrated IP based networks for building control and management systems

These common procedures
Ensure uniform integration of different control systems in a shared administrated IP based network

Reduce the network administration effort serving different systems

Harmonization of access to an IP network with connected
building automation products allowing for better integration.

There are many connected devices in Smart Buildings

But, applications for remain in silos, each with their own proprietary solutions.

Lighting control and building management systems with IT convergence into a secure all-IP-based configuration.

Breaking down these barriers by making data of the various building automation application protocols accessible via an IP address (instead of an application protocol specific address).

Benefits of IP-BLiS

• Single IP backbone for all building automation products: IP (IPV6)
• Enables common security in building networks
• Eases IT department’s ability to support, application protocol  for building automation products knowledge not needed
• Seamlessly integrates wired and wireless connectivity options to reduce installation costs
• Common IP networks allow for monitoring groups of devices instead of single devices
• Limitless scalability
• Potentially: common semantic interpretation of data independent from the used application protocol

Each domain requires a gateway (GW) to translate proprietary protocols into IP. The building administrator has limited control over individual devices in each domain, and provisioning is complex.