Building Clouds™ to Launch New Hardware/Software Platform for Building Controls

Union City, CA, October 08, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Building Clouds™ has successfully negotiated exclusive licensing rights to the intellectual property (IP) of Plexus Altitude Limited a former UK based private manufacturer of software that specializes in the integration and analysis of data for energy efficiency and building management systems. All intellectual property rights are now owned and held by a USA based company.

Financial terms of the transaction were not released.

Building Clouds is launching a new suite of products called Opendiem™ that was developed from the Plexus Altitude platform. The Opendiem Suite is available to Systems Integrators for smart grid, energy efficiency, and building automation projects. The Opendiem Suite incorporates connectivity for: LonWorks, BACnet, Modbus, OPC, Soap/XML, Johnson Controls, TAC I/NET, Barber Colman, Siemens, Invensys, Trend, and more. The projected release date for Opendiem is Oct 18, 2010.

Building Clouds is integrating the Opendiem technology into its portfolio of systems integration solutions for energy management systems and advanced building controls for HVAC, lighting, demand response, access control, and digital signage. Hardware products to enhance the software portfolio are currently being identified.

“The Plexus Altitude line of software products provided a critical building block for developing our cloud based web-enabled systems. Opendiem allows us to provide the most open, capable, and affordable system available today,” said Bob Wallace, Building Clouds Co-Founder.

Joining Building Clouds as part of the development team are Dennis Esmonde-White and Franck Terray, both key Plexus Altitude software engineers, who are developing the next generation of products. Development goals include: software drivers for additional legacy control systems, custom application program interfaces (API) and Web APIs, refinement and re-branding of the Altitude Energy portfolio, Windows 7 and Server2008 compatibility, plus other key connectivity solutions based on select hardware.

Building Clouds provides complete hardware and software solutions for building automation and energy management that seamlessly integrate into an IP infrastructure to create fully converged control networks. Product details can be found at www.opendiem.com.

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