| ASHRAE |
American Society of Heating Ventilation, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers |
| ANSI |
American National Standards Institute |
| BACnet™ |
BACnet is a trademark of ASHRAE and stands for Building Automation Control network ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-1995, developed by ASHRAE to provide a universal means of interoperability between building automation devices from various manufacturers by way of a common open communication protocol
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| BACpac™ |
Simplex Trademark identifying a STR product that is compatible with BACnet |
| Portal |
A panel used to convert Simplex points on a 4020, 4100 or 4120 node to BACnet
objects for transport over a RS-232 Point to Point connection
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| PICS |
Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement is a document prepared by the
supplier to identify the particular options specified by BACnet which a particular device supports
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| Device |
A BACnet device is any device, real or virtual, that supports digital
communication using the BACnet protocol. Simplex BACpac™ Portal is considered a BACnet device
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| Object |
Related to BACnet, an object is a point with specific characteristics.
There are 18 standard objects defined in the BACnet Standard
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| PTP |
Point To Point, sometimes referred to as RS-232 communications is
one of the five Transport mediums compatible with BACnet. PTP is the transport medium for
the BACpac™ Portal
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| Properties |
Attributes of a BACnet Object. There are 123 different types of properties
defined in the BACnet Standard.
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| Services |
The means by which a BACnet device acquires information from another device,
commands another device to perform some actions, or announces to one or more devices that some event has taken
place
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| Conformance Class |
TClassification of the minimum set of services, objects, properties which the device
must support in a particular class. BACnet has defined six Conformance Classes of which the Simplex Portal is
Conformance Class 3
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