Over the last years Smart Home has become an extremely dynamic and sustainable global hype, largely driven by smart devices and services such as Digital Voice Assistants from Amazon, Google or Apple. Thus, the demand for and use of smart devices in living and working environments increases rapidly.

Unfortunately, most of smart systems are isolated solutions, which are supporting a specific brand. However, customers who have recognized the benefits and convenience of smart homes and have decided to smartly retrofit their homes, typically have a heterogeneous device infrastructure with a product-mix of different brands. Consequently, the key customer requirement is cross brand interoperability.

This particularly affects the entire installed base of elementary building technology such as lighting, shading and heating, which usually consists of durable high-quality products that are costly installed. Millions of such already installed devices like roller shutters, shades, garage doors and climate control of many popular brands are included to this kind of significant investment products, for which customers want to avoid replacement but want to connect with smart environments. The problem therewith is that vendors each use their own proprietary and mutually incompatible wireless protocols to control the devices.