Building managers need to provide their customers with competitive management and automation services in order to provide best-in-class climate control, energy savings, and maintenance. Converting existing buildings to control systems can be extremely challenging and costly because of the variety of legacy equipment and customer expectations. Photo courtesy of Intel

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Traditionally, the high cost of building management systems (BMS) has been difficult to justify for small- to medium-sized buildings.

This is now changing as leading-edge technologies for the Internet of Things (IoT) are being used to drive down BMS cost, transforming the market dynamics for software vendors, systems integrators, and solution providers.

Accelerating this transformation is the Intel® Building Management Platform (Intel® BMP), which integrates CANDI PowerTools to give cloud-based smart building applications and services secure and easy access to data and “things” in commercial buildings.

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The platform connects to disparate building equipment and devices that use a variety of protocols and sends their data to cloud-based services and applications for business intelligence (BI), analytics, dashboards, and other applications.


Key Features

Easy Access to Building Data and Things - CANDI PowerTools is integrated into Intel BMP to provide discovery tools and a drag-and-drop interface for installers to quickly find and provision devices, and collect their data.
The platform interfaces to hundreds of devices and data types using a wide range of protocols that will grow over time.

Over-the-Air Updates - The platform also communicates with a cloud service used to remotely provision, manage, and maintain the software with over-the-air updates such as new protocol drivers, critical security patches and new features.

Cyber Security Protection - Intel BMP is ruggedized and locked-down using McAfee Embedded Control software to help protect the system from cyber threats and attacks.

Flexibility and Choice - Over time, Intel BMP will enable a broad choice of ecosystem solutions, providing:

• A variety of IoT gateways supporting a range of cost points, performance, and features

• A choice of software and cloud applications for building management

• A growing library of compatible devices and sensors using standard protocols

Trusted OS Platform - Intel BMP includes the industry-leading commercial embedded Linux from Wind River as its OS foundation.
The included pre-optimized Linux operating system from Wind River provides a proven open-source foundation on certified hardware with security monitoring and updates.

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Application-Ready Platform

Intel BMP interfaces to a broad set of building systems and sensors, and filters and securely transfers their data to the cloud (or on-premises servers), handling the protocol translations needed in between.

These connections can be made to air-handling units, chillers, thermostats, meters, lighting control, sensors, switches, and video cameras using standard protocols such as BACnet, ZigBee, Insteon, IP, UPnP, and more.

This platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution reduces development time and effort for solution providers by offering a pre-integrated platform on which they can deploy a wide range of affordable applications and services.

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Intel Building Management Platform: Product Brief

Speed up development and deployment of smart building management solutions.

Pre-integrated, commercial-grade platform accelerates time-to-revenue for manageable smart building solutions.

Overview

Intel® Building Management Platform (Intel® BMP) integrated with CANDI PowerTools includes platform security and manageability that make it easy to create smart building management solutions for small and mid-size buildings.

Designed for solution provider personnel from software developers, system integrators, and system installers, Intel BMP helps accelerate time-to-revenue by lowering integration and deployment costs.

This is done by giving solution providers a pre-integrated, commercial-grade, secure embedded Linux offering from Wind River; IoT middleware that handles connections and data access from things; cloud-based device provisioning from CANDI Controls; and cybersecurity essentials from Intel® Security.

Intel BMP connects to disparate building equipment and devices that use a variety of protocols and sends their data to cloud-based services and applications for business intelligence (BI), analytics, dashboards, and other applications.

These connections can be made to air handling units, chillers, thermostats, electrical meters, lighting control, and video cameras using standard protocols such as BACnet, ZigBee, Insteon, Z-Wave, IP, and more.

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Easy Access to Building Data and Things

For system installers of Intel BMP-based gateways:
Intel BMP pre-integrates CANDI PowerTools, which provides a cloud-based, drag-and-drop user interface that allows solution installers to quickly discover and provision devices for data acquisition using a wide range of open standards-based protocols that talk to the disparate systems and sensors in the building.

Over-the-Air Updates

For personnel maintaining the deployed solution:
The platform communicates with a cloud service used to remotely maintain the software with over-the-air updates of protocol drivers, critical security patches, etc.

Cybersecurity Protection

For facilities managers:
Solutions based on Intel BMP provide peace of mind as it is hardened and protected using McAfee® Embedded Control software to enforce system integrity and help in preventing known and unknown threats and attacks.

Flexibility and Choice

Over time, Intel BMP will enable a broad choice of ecosystems that will provide:

• A variety of IoT gateways supporting a range of cost points, performance, and features

• A choice of software and cloud applications for building management

• Various devices and sensors using standard protocols

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Use Cases for Intel Building Management Platform

Intel BMP interfaces with a wide range of smart building touchpoints (Figure 2) to reduce the effort for developers of building management applications, such as:

• Building energy monitoring and analytics

• Remote monitoring of assets such as space utilization and equipment usage

• Data insights across disparate building systems used to optimize building operations

• Future applications that have the need for building data insights to deliver smart building experiences for building managers and their occupants

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For More Information

To learn more about Intel BMP,
visit intel.com/bmp.

To learn more about CANDI PowerTools,
visit candicontrols.com.


The Changing Building Industry

Most buildings have some level of intelligence built in, whether HVAC, lighting, or fire safety.
But today, it’s possible to get more from building data, and ultimately, make better decisions.

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See how this is being done for all types of buildings - commercial properties, industrial, healthcare, and education - by property owners who are taking advantage of new technologies, mobile devices, IoT, and big data.


End-to-End Solutions for Smart Building

Intel provides OEMs, ODMs, and SIs a path to industry-class solutions by offering a broad set of hardware and software products, as well application-ready platforms, including:

• Intel® Hardware, Software, and Technologies

• Intel® Solutions

• Intel® Technologies


About Intel

Intel, the world leader in silicon innovation, develops technologies, products and initiatives to continually  advance how people work and live.

Founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor in 1971.

This decade, our mission is to create and extend computing technology to connect and enrich the lives of every person on earth.

https://newsroom.intel.com/  


Where to Buy

Begin the development of your smart building management solution with these Intel® Building Management Platform (Intel® BMP) key ingredients.

CANDI Controls, Inc.

Purchase CANDI PowerTools to jumpstart your smart building management solution.

https://candicontrols.com/what-we-do/get-candi/  

CANDI software operates at the core edge-to-cloud data layer within enterprise-grade commercial solutions for facilities and energy management. Photo courtesy of CANDI

Intel® Gateways

Stay tuned for ordering information for gateways pre-integrated with Intel® BMP.

For queries, please email: intelbmp@intel.com 


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