IP-BLiS

Market Interest Group

Standards Joining Forces

Thread Group Members Meeting

IP-BLiS
(Internet Protocol for Building & Lighting
Standards)

Not a new organization

existing organizations
working together
Today: Many Building Technologies...
Elevators Water

Energy Lighting

Building
HVAC
There are more connected Access
devices in Smart Buildings
every day

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Today: Building Technologies in Silos

Each system evolved

independently with their
own proprietary solutions.

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Trend: Convergence of Building Systems with IT...
Building
IT-Network

This will result into a

common secure IP-based
infrastructure.

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Trend: Facilitates IoT for Cloud
Commercial Buildings... Services

Building
IT-Network

No silos. No proprietary
applications anymore.

It allows multiple systems

to communicate together
Building Control
using cloud services &
cloud computing

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IP-BLiS

Our VISION OUR GOAL

To make commercial buildings more Harmonization of access to an IP
responsive to the needs of users by network with connected building
promoting a secure, multi-standard, automation products allowing for
IP-based harmonized IoT solution better integration.
Benefits of IP-BLiS

Single IP backbone For all building automation products: IP (IPV6)

Common security Common security in building networks

Simplified support & Eases IT department’s ability to support, eliminates need to

administration know application protocol for building automation products

Seamless Seamlessly integrates wired and wireless connectivity

connectivity options options to reduce installation costs

Device groups and Uses Common IP networks to allow for monitoring groups of
policies possible devices instead of single devices

Scalability Offers limitless scalability & simple cloud integration

Potentially: enables common semantic interpretation of data

Application
independent from the used application protocol
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 PROBLEM: Isolated building-automation
domains and networks Building Automation
Domains
IT
Infrastructure

Control

Isolated Network Z

Control
GW Control
HVAC
Non-IP Network Y

Control
GW Control
Lighting
Non-IP Network X IP Network

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.
 PROBLEM: Why convergence on the
application layer doesn’t (always) work Building Automation
Domains
IT
Infrastructure

Other Devices

HVAC Devices

Lighting Devices GW Control

 Interdependencies between verticals

Lighting/HVAC/Other
Non-IP Network X
 Locked into one ecosystem
 Difficult to agree on roles & responsibilities
IP Network  Limited product choice / Vendor lock-in
 Less scalable
 No end-to-end encryption (trusted gateway)
 May end up with multiple networks

One shared gateway (GW) to translate protocol into IP. GW needs to be managed and
trusted by all verticals simultaneously.
SOLUTION: Common IP-based infrastructure
IT
Building Automation Infrastructure
Domains

Building Automation Cloud

domains Control

Public Internet
Cloud Service

HVAC

Building
Control

Lighting
Unified IP networking layer

Building administrators gain streamlined control over application domains,

with real-time monitoring of the shared common network, simpler provisioning,
and the possibility to extend this to multiple buildings through the cloud.
Activities of IP-BLiS till today

1 new Member DALI Alliance joined in the end of 2020

Web-page with info about benefits, articles, webinar,

Ipblis.org
events…

Webinar First open webinar with Over 300 registrants

Announcement of the launch of IP-BLiS and Announcement

2 PRs
of DALI Alliance joining the initiative

We created and published our own articles. We also start

Series or articles
collecting external contributor articles

Newsletter We launched the 1st newsletter in March 2021

Launch of the IP-BLiS LinkedIN page and share social

Social Media
media post. Join us!
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Currently of IP-BLiS in progress
Social media plan to share via our LinkedIN page and also
Social Media plan
via the Social Media channels of the different orgs

building a public page for public contributors to help us

Wikipedia
spreading the word online

Recommendations Analyzing recommendations and best practices we can

of IP-BLiS promote via IP-BLiS
To best convey the IPBLiS message which will be in-line
Finding
with the rest of the orgs and technologies part of the
commonalities
initiative
Building life-cycle
Creating our view of the
actors

creating a better corporate ppt and a version for our

New PPT
members

Creating a set of new videos and content to reinforce our

Videos & Content
message and initiative
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Thank you very much
Casto Cañavate – Chair of IP-BLiS
Contact: info@ipblis.org
Web: www.ipblis.org
LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ipblis