Italian IoT and controls specialist Digicom is to use Fin Frameork software from Siemens-owned J2 Innovations to connect, manage, analyse, display and control buildings.

Fin Framework is an open customisable software framework for smart buildings, smart equipment and IoT. Digicom will use it to launch IT and IoT software and hardware products. Called Digicom Framework, Fin will enable Digicom to connect, manage, analyse, display and control building and asset data in diverse edge applications, while providing native and secure cloud access thanks to J2’s Edge2Cloud technology.

The portfolio will be aimed at applications such as building management including energy management, HVAC, equipment optimisation, and renewable energies monitoring, water distribution metering and leak detection, and space management.

Being Fin Framework based, Digicom Framework will be natively built on tags, supporting the latest Haystack 4 open standard. The software provides an intuitive user-experience, intelligent data management and analytics, and simplified workflows, and shares data to the cloud or other IT systems via an IoT interface.

“We are excited to welcome Digicom as our OEM partner,” said Domenico di Canosa, sales director of California-based J2 Innovations. “They have the presence and the power to serve the growing IoT oriented smart building and smart city market with appropriate hardware platforms, from OEMs to end users, from property and facility management companies to maintainers and system integrators through to energy managers. This collaboration is particularly exciting as it involves leveraging the full power of our software and Digicom’s large hardware portfolio. Together, we are meeting a variety of industry needs in a revolutionary one-stop-shop.”

Luca Rapone, business unit manager at Digicom, added: ” In combining J2’s software and knowledge with our own, we are creating something very special for our customers who work in a complex industry that is under increasing pressure to meet targets like reducing the energy consumption of buildings and cities. Our work with J2 stays true to our mission to develop innovative technology to improve daily life.”

Digicom is a B810 group company active since 1977 and counting overall more than 300 employees from R&D, software development and hardware manufacturing, sales and post-sales support, with over 40 years of experience in the electronics manufacturing, connectivity and IT. B810 has electronic manufacturing sites in Italy and Albania.