It is used in Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the Middle East, Russia, United States, South Africa, the UK and, other parts of Europe including Greece and Romania.
This improves the reliability of command transmission and makes C-Bus far more suitable for large, commercial applications than X10.
This can be enabled on C-Bus output units through software or a hardware burden can be connected to the network.
This means the C-Bus wiring, connections and circuitry can be considered Extra Low Voltage.
The power control in a C-Bus system lies in a “Dimmer” or “Relay” which is installed in the DB and replaces the traditional switch used in conventional wiring.
[3][4] Using one of Clipsal's C-Bus interface modules (PCI for RS232 or USB and CNI for Ethernet TCP/IP), you can interact with other home automation systems, or with applications on devices like Android, iPad or iPhone.
C-Bus as a home automation and commercial building lighting control system is used primarily in Australia, China and New Zealand[citation needed].
C-Bus is compatible with Translink C-Bus Gateway, OPC, DALI, DSI, BACnet, TCP/IP, Control4, Crestron, AMX, RTI, LonWorks, ModBus, Charmed Quark Controller, the Comfort Intelligent Home System and some other protocols through interfaces.