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. Home and building automation has two new standards developed by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and LonMark International. These standards provide users, developers, suppliers, integrators and specifiers of open control systems for buildings with a mechanism to develop and deliver a higher level of device-to-device interoperability through any open control platform.
The new standards are CEA-709.5 and CEA-709.6. The first includes guidelines that define application-level requirements for interoperable devices and how they share key information, status, and data over an open control network. In addition, it establishes as deployed in an ANSI/CEA-709.1 LonWorks protocol network, these application elements define how multi-vendor devices should interact within a single system.
Lonworks explains that this significantly improves the installation time and integration of typical home and building automation systems, by defining the units, range, resolution, configuration and requirements along with the device information within the standard.
For its part, the CEA-709.6 includes application guidelines, offering a catalog of more than 100 device profiles, with more than 380 deployment options. These profiles define mandatory and optional design requirements for standard variables, configuration properties, enumeration types, and files required for standard interfaces.
This broad library of profiles includes definitions for a wide collection of devices, such as: HVAC, lighting, security, access control, measurement, energy management, fire control, gas detection, generators, room automation, renewable energy, energy services, food service automation, semiconductor manufacturing, transportation, home applications and others.
"Our intention is to offer the market a fully proven, well-adopted approach as a solution to the interoperability problem presented by the Internet of Things (IoT)," explained Ron Bernstein, representative of LonMark International.
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