Linksper is a Building Operating System: a software platform integrating data from heterogeneous sources into a single unified interface to be shared with third parties.
Linksper Stack
Linksper is made of 4 main pillars:
- Acquisition & Control: Linksper communicates with almost any OT & IT systems such as traditional BMS/BAS systems, IoT systems (both local or cloud based) and silos
- Structuration: Linksper ingests static data models such as BIM, CMMS hierarchies... and pair them with dynamic data to create contextualized data
- Consolidation: Linksper provides tools to create local scenarios, generate syntheses, global commands...
- Exchanges: Linksper provides a default API for third parties as well as many out of shelves connectors to major platforms or technologies (Azure, GCP, AWS, Elasticsearch, pure MQTT, MongoDb...)
All of this is managed through applications which help the BOS integrator to administer data, monitor the interactions and handle the evolutions.
Acquisition & Control
Linksper is based on the Niagara™ platform from Tridium which is fully agnostic from any hardware. A lot of communication drivers are available both for field and IP protocols: BACnet (Client or Server), Modbus (Master and Slave), LonWorks, KNX, MBus, SNMP, OPC UA, MQTT... More than 200 proprietary protocols are also available to retrieve data from existing and ancient installations (Cbus, N2, TAC, Sauter, Trend IQ...).
One of the key advantage of Linksper is to have this capacity to connect as direct as possible to any equipment, avoiding additional gateways in the middle that would add complexity and weakness.
More and more systems (especially silos & IoT) are exposing their data through Rest API. Linksper has a built-in generic driver for REST API allowing it to communicate with any system without any need for specific development, it is just a bit of configuration.
In case a new driver is necessary, Linksper provides an advanced SDK (Software Development Kit) to create new drivers.
Linksper normalizes data no matter its origin and its technology. This normalization allows Linksper to
- Create control logic (maths communicate heterogenous data to third parties with a unique format to bring simplicity.
