Revised BACnet Communications Standard contains 19 addenda.
Press Release Summary:
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2010, BACnet® - A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks, allows building equipment and systems manufactured by different companies to work together. This open, consensus-developed standard for building controls industry contains 19 addenda approved since 2008 version was published. Specifically, content includes wireless communications; XML vocabulary, character encoding, and network security definition.
Original Press Release:
ASHRAE 2010 BACnet® Published
ATLANTA - A large collection of new technologies for emerging applications is contained in ASHRAE's newly published BACnet standard.
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2010, BACnet - A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks, allows building equipment and systems manufactured by different companies to work together. It is the only open, consensus-developed standard in the building controls industry. The new standard contains 19 addenda approved since the 2008 standard was published.
"The 2010 version of the standard represents a large amount of work in a short amount of time by the BACnet committee," Dave Robin, committee chair, said. "In just two years, the committee has added a wide variety of new technologies and contributed more than 400 pages to the standard."
The standard contains several new ways to communicate: wireless communications is provided for applications where wired networks are impractical or expensive; a new XML vocabulary is provided for complex standard and proprietary data and metadata; a new character encoding method is provided for greater flexibility and compatibility with international text; and new state-of-the-art network security is defined to allow the creation of highly secure communications channels for sensitive data.
It also adds:
The cost of ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2010, BACnet - A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks, is $170 ($140 ASHRAE members).
To order, contact ASHRAE Customer Service at 1-800-527-4723 (United States and Canada) or 404-636-8400 (worldwide), fax 404-321-5478, or visit http://www.ashrae.org/bookstore.
ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is an international organization of some 50,000 persons. ASHRAE fulfills its mission of advancing heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education.
