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Building X

APIs

Explore our Building X APIs. Develop innovative new applications and integrations and showcase them on the Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace, or extend the functionality of existing applications.

Introducing API Manager

When you acquire an API product, you get Building X API Manager. It includes:

  • Extensive documentation for each API as well as OpenAPI Specification (OAS) documentation and resources
  • A common dev interface
  • Machine user authentication and authorization and machine user secret rotation
  • Secure data exchange through standardized authentication and common domain language and API standards
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Building operations management APIs

Read data and issue commands for control points. Get structural management capabilities for buildings, including equipment location and automated onboarding of locations, devices and equipment. By leveraging these offerings, you can seamlessly integrate these elements across platforms.

Operations API

Read data from data points or issue commands to actuator points. Each device can manage multiple points, which can collect data or execute commands, such as changing a thermostat or opening/closing a valve.

Requires: subscription to Operations Manager

Subscription metric: calls/year: 6,000,000*

*Shared quota with Structure API

Structure API

Create and manage a detailed structural blueprint for buildings within Building X. The API streamlines the organization of equipment locations within buildings and supports automated data setup processes.

Requires: subscription to Operations Manager

Subscription metric: calls/year: 6,000,000*

*Shared quota with Operations API

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