Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Richard Farnsworth" <[email protected]> · Fri, 8 Jul 2005 08:10:25 +1000

Yes,
As it happens I have a similar problem. While the Solution has not been
implemented yet, I am pursuing a BACNET/IP to OPC gateway/server (there are
several options here) and will then go OPC to Channel access. Check out
http://www-csr.bessy.de/control/SoftDist/OPCsupport/

You might like to check out some of the products at www.fieldserver.com.
Although I've not used personally used anything here, they seem to have a
useful number of options. BACNET itself comes in a variety of flavours- PTP,
MSTP, ARCNET and IP. We have BACNET/IP

Also, you might be interested in http://www.ethereal.com/. Ethereal is a
protocol analyser, has built in BACNET support and is open source. 

I keep you informed of my progress if you wish. 

Richard Farnsworth
The Australian Synchrotron Project

-----Original Message-----
From: Olaf Krebs [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 8 July 2005 1:40 AM
To: tech_talk
Subject: Bacnet communication standard for building and automation

Hello,

does somebody knows about activities  in the EPICS community  to use the 
BACnet  communication standard to connect plants like air condition, 
chiller, ...:
Bacnet:
*A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control 
Networks*. Developed under the auspices of the American Society of 
Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), BACnet 
is an American national standard, a European pre-standard, and an ISO 
global standard.

written:

www.bacnet.org

Regards

Olaf Krebs

DESY

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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