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GOING OPEN – WIDE OPEN LONWORKS® control technology has been experiencing an incredibly strong adoption rate in the commercial controls industry over the last few years. Despite the incorporation of the technology into a variety of products, until recently it has been difficult for a systems integrator to build a truly open, interoperable solution. There are several reasons for this. One reason is the nature of the typical commercial control problem. The majority of building automation projects in industrialized countries continues to be retrofit. This means that systems integrators need a way to integrate legacy control devices into a LONWORKS network without having to create a custom device. Another reason is the structure of the market. While major manufacturers of building control systems continue to adopt LONWORKS technology at an accelerating pace, many are worried about the market changes that will be brought about by adoption of a standard network protocol and implementation of truly open architectures. Open architectures are viewed as a possible ‘Pandora’s Box’ to larger companies with substantial market shares; they prefer to maintain the status quo, which keeps their customers boxed in. They are not willing to accept the fact – proven over and over in other industries such as information systems – that open systems greatly expand markets, providing plenty of opportunity for many competitors to prosper by delivering new functions and added value to both old and new customers. Many of these manufacturers have found the use of the LONWORKS technology to be a cost-effective way to allow their proprietary devices to share information within their own closed system and wish to leave it at that. There’s a Crack in the Box! It is unfortunate that not all control system manufacturers are ready to deliver truly open platforms. One of the more common system architectures deployed today, in both building and pro