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Tridium Takes Major Role In OASIS' oBIX Technical Committee
Tridium Inc, a provider of software to enable integration of automation and
control devices, is playing a key role in the oBIX Technical committee
recently organized under the auspices of OASIS, the Organization for the
Advancement of Structured Information Standards. The oBIX group consists of
industry professionals working to develop a standard Web services protocol for
connecting facility systems to the enterprise.
oBIX will help improve operational efficiencies for end users by bridging the
gap between facility systems and enterprise applications. Facility operators,
building owners, and tenants will be able to make decisions based on a
comprehensive view of their enterprise including life-cycle costs,
environmental considerations, operations and other performance factors. OASIS,
an international standards development consortium, will help advance the
protocol which will reach across all verticals in the facility management
space. With Tridium's guidance and support, industry stakeholders in HVAC,
lighting, security, refrigeration and others, will define and promote the
standard.
As a founding member of oBIX, Tridium has taken a leadership role in the Data
and Web Services working group. Acting as Team Group Leader, Aaron Hansen, a
senior software engineer with Tridium, will lead the technical development of
these core efforts, which will define common types and services applicable to
horizontal issues including discovery, points, historical trends and alarming,
regardless of underlying protocols.
John Petze, CEO of Tridium commented that "while there are now numerous open
communication protocols employed by building systems and equipment, there is a
great need for a Web-services standard to make it easy for these systems to
communicate with other applications used at the enterprise level. We believe
that the success of oBIX under the auspices of OASIS, will usher in a new era
of efficiency in real-time facility management."
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