View, Inc.
SECURE BUILDING SERVICES NETWORK

Abstract:

A building services network, which may include a network of sensor devices, is securable via an onboarding process. In addition to the use of encryption keys stored in memory elements of the devices, an onboarding process may additionally utilize a distributed ledger, which is stored among members of a peer group to provide consensus-based authentication of newly added sensors. Such consensus-based authentication of an onboarding process may preclude insertion of falsified data into the building services network. Consensus-based authentication may also be utilized to ensure that newly requested services, and/or upgrades to existing services, comply with predetermined service contracts among network elements of the building services network. Further, consensus-based authentication may also be utilized to authenticate and/or validate individual message transmissions between or among network elements of a building services network or between or among network elements and processing/data collection entities external to the building services network.