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OPEN THE WORLD
TO SMARTER BUILDINGS

No more locked data, choices, value, or experiences in buildings.

The Coalition for Smarter Buildings Foundation (C4SB) is the global community dedicated to creating, collecting, and sharing open technology, data, and standards to solve common challenges and unlock higher value, choices, and opportunities for building owners, operators, occupiers, and vendors.

Why C4SB?

C4SB provides an independent community to build open digital resources that transform the lifecycle of buildings.

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Get acquainted with the community and projects and how you can get involved.

Latest News

Explore the latest news, articles, and C4SB community events.

Projects

C4SB Foundation projects are helping transform how buildings and what happens inside them are digitally connected over their entire lifecycle, accelerating delivery of better experiences, more efficient operations, and higher value. 

Featured Projects

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The Semantic Buildings project explores and tests the integration of different open-source semantic models to create useful knowledge for improved building design and operation.

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The Asset Leadership Standard project helps establish the “Why?”  Why is it beneficial for top leaders to have smart assets talk with each other and outside markets such as the energy grid?

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The Interoperable Building Box (IBB) project is developing an open digital architecture that enables cloud-native, on-premises data exchange between applications. 

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The Managed BACnet project is addressing technology and implementation challenges for deploying BACnet into cloud-native buildings.

Transforming Digital Management of Buildings

Solutions built on the open standards and open source components championed by the C4SB community are delivering higher value, more efficient operations, and a better experience to real buildings today.

Featured Solutions

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The [BLANK] Building in Portland, OR, combines occupancy data, open HVAC sequencing, and grid interactivity to save thousands each year.

Solution Name #2

The [BLANK] Company of Southern CA uses open standard data connections to enable AI to optimize HVAC costs while maintaining comfort across 27 fast casual restaurants.

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Members

Building and selling smart building solutions?

Shape the ecosystem and drive cross-company collaboration.

Contributors

Looking to get involved?

From coder to creatives, join our global community and advance C4SB open building projects.

Owners & End Users

Looking for open smarter solutions?

Accelerate your adoption in close collaboration with peers, project maintainers, and C4SB

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