Building Control

Building owners and property managers know all too well the importance of having real-time monitoring and control over their building. They are trying to satisfy the occupants’ needs with a comfortable and safe space, whilst at the same time trying to keep tight control over financial restraints and budgets. It can be a fine balance.

Building efficiency is their primary objective. Without the correct monitoring and control provisions, a building can quickly become inefficient and generate high energy costs, with the potential of having a negative effect on our environment.

With NXP's world-class wireless platform, inefficient buildings can become a thing of the past. The provision of wireless connectivity for HVACs, Energy Metering, Smart Lighting and Security means that a building owner or property manager can have the real-time monitoring and control that bring them the efficiency they need.

With your next generation Building Control products, we will collectively do our part to intelligently maintain a comfortable and safe space for building occupants, meet owners' or managers' financial running constraints and, better still, do our part towards maintaining our planet's environment.

Key applications

Wireless interconnection provides an increased level of autonomy in the following application areas:

• Access Control systems
• HVAC systems
• Smart Energy
• Security systems
• Smart Lighting

Wireless solution

Our JN51xx wireless microcontrollers, combined with our wireless network protocol stacks, form the wireless connectivity backbone of the solution.

The JN51xx wireless microcontrollers are feature-rich devices that, in addition to an IEEE802.15.4-compliant 2.4GHz radio and 32-bit CPU, contain a wealth of on-chip peripherals to support your application needs. These include 21 GPIOs, ADC, DAC, PWM, timers, UART and SPI. If you need additional peripherals then our industry-standard I²C port combined with any of the devices from our I²C interface and connectivity portfolio, provides an optimal way for you to expand or enhance I/O capabilities to your individual requirements.

Our wireless network protocol stacks offer unrivalled levels of performance and functionality:

• JenNet facilitates easy-to-use, highly robust, low-cost networking
• JenNet-IP is an enhanced 6LoWPAN network solution that provides IP-based networking to serve the 'Internet of Things'
• ZigBee Commercial Building Automation (CBA) provides multi-vendor product interoperability

Each stack is developed in-house and is highly optimised to the JN51xx platform. Simple C-based API's are provided to streamline software development.