Today’s buildings and building management systems face two core problems: Infrastructure and Interoperability.

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Infrastructure is a challenge, especially at the edge boundary between on-prem systems and the cloud. Interoperability is a problem because most on-prem systems are not designed to work with other systems, but to run in a 'silo' for their specific needs.

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The Interoperable Building Box (‘IBB’) addresses both of these problems with a vision of a plug-and-play platform that manages the necessary networking infrastructure while automatically matching the capabilities of systems with each other with minimal user intervention.

Infrastructure

The IBB addresses the Infrastructure problem by replacing the current mashups of gateways, applications, and protocols with a single extensible cloud-native software platform that resides on a physical or virtual server in the building. Your applications run in standardized containers on a Kubernetes cluster in the IBB, and they enjoy the benefits of cloud-native technologies while being inside the building.

Interoperability

The IBB addresses the Interoperability problem by replacing hard-to-manage proprietary APIs with an open-source orchestration platform. This enables vendors and integrators to spend less time on integration and maintenance and more time creating new innovations and solving customer problems with better tools.