The Fairhair Alliance, an alliance of leading companies from the lighting, building automation, semiconductor and IT industries, has created three draft specifications that represent the organization’s first steps in bringing the Internet of Things (IoT) to building automation and lighting in commercial buildings. The first three draft specifications cover resource modeling, resource discovery and security. Fairhair envisions a future where the building automation and lighting-control industries use IoT technologies to build secure, cost-effective and scalable systems. This will enable the use of a single, unified IP-based network infrastructure in commercial buildings.