With the potential explosion of sensors in commercial buildings, it's widely expected that the underlying communications mechanism between the devices and the control system will increasingly be based on wireless mesh networking.

The benefits of wireless sensor networking for the building automation market include:

• Reduces wiring costs (up to 80 percent)
• Reduces labor costs by eliminating cumbersome manual monitoring techniques
• Accelerates retrofit projects
• Allows staged migration for retrofit situations
• Eliminates costs and constraints associated with rewiring and reconfiguration