oBIX gets written up in GIAC

Good Ink from one of the leading security trainers /
certifiers

 

http://www.giac.org/resources/whitepaper/physical/302.php

 

Open Building
Information Xchange—oBIX

oBIX is a set of
standards developed by a committee of the Organization for the Advancement of
Structured Information Standards—(OASIS).

The objective of
oBIX is to define a standard web services protocol to enable communications
between building mechanical and electrical systems and enterprise applications,
enabling facilities and their operations to be managed as full participants in
IT infrastructure.

Building systems
use many esoteric binary communications protocols such as BACnet, LonTalk,
Modbus, and DALI, to name a few, and a number of proprietary formats as well.

The task of oBIX
is to normalize these communications to web-based services, XML, in particular,
delivering facilities systems data in a format consumable by enterprise
applications that is compatible with IP networks.

Generally, oBIX
deals with the interoperability and convergence of electrical and mechanical
facilities systems.

 

"It is the theory
that decides what can be observed."  
- Albert Einstein

 

  
  
Toby Considine

  
Chair, OASIS oBIX TC

  Facilities Technology Office

  University of North Carolina

  Chapel Hill, NC

  
  
  
  

  
  
  
Email: Toby.Considine@
  unc.edu

  Phone: (919)962-9073 

  
http://www.oasis-open.org