• efficient system installation requirements, especially for the professional contractor;
• tight, effective and stable integration of all relevant applications, with many devices from many different vendors;
• reliable, no-nonsense building control functionality;
• rock-solid quality from individual products up to complete installations;
• minimal operational maintenance effort.

This explains why EIB has been the sole embedded control technology to:

• define and enforce real interworking from the start;
• specify requirements on electro-magnetic compatibility (EMC), electrical and functional safety, MTBF etc. of EIB labeled products;
• establish a strong compliance certification;
• put a common set of standard software configuration tools for non-engineers at the center of its innovation efforts: ETS.

That these efforts have met with success, is shown convincingly by the thousands and thousands of installations, many of which have been operational since 5 to 10 years. And of course not in the least by the enthusiastic and enduring commitment of thousands of professional installers and system integrators.