Originally Posted by
PaulDiglio
I work for a design firm and we recently specified McQuay unit ventilators for a high school with BacNet compliant controllers.
BacNet is simply a protocol standard that allows controllers of different manufacturers to talk to each other, thereby allowing fair competition down the road.
BacNet defines object properties, so that the headend of the automation system can send and receive data to individual controllers. Each point is defined by some type of network address, type, states, ect in order to conform to the protocol. ....