EnOcean to BACnet Gateway – a new way to bridge these networks
Issue 02-2020:
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Contemporary Controls’ EnOcean to BACnet gateway makes it easy to integrate EnOcean devices into BACnet networks. The gateway allows users to discover and select EnOcean devices on their network. The gateway will then create new virtual BACnet devices for the BACnet network. These virtual devices will have the appropriate BACnet objects.
The process begins by selecting the appropriate EnOcean Equipment Profile (EEP) for the EnOcean device. This provides the gateway with enough information to know which BACnet objects to create for this virtual BACnet device and how to map the received EnOcean data to these objects. This virtual device will have the properties of the EnOcean device contained in its BACnet objects and will update this data whenever the EnOcean device transmits new data. As more EnOcean devices are added to the gateway, more virtual BACnet devices will be created. All of these BACnet devices exist in their own virtual network. This allows BACnet head-ends to easily discover these devices and receive the EnOcean data via BACnet.
For multiple EnOcean devices of the same type, many BACnet head-ends provide the ability to copy/paste these virtual BACnet devices, including their objects, schedules, trends, graphics, and alarms, to simplify integration. For example, you could configure the head-end with the objects from the first virtual BACnet device along with its selected features and copy/paste it for each identical EnOcean device in your facility, thus saving considerable effort.
All configuration occurs via the built-in webpages of the gateway using a standard browser without the need for separate applications and hardware.
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