Advanced Controls is committed to providing the
highest level of customer service and satisfaction within every
facet of our business. We will always hold true that the fulfillment
of the customers' needs are the cornerstone of our success.
We will strive to achieve maximum quality
projects, delivered on-time, in the most professional and safe
manner possible.
BACnet affords facility owners and
managers maximum flexibility and cost-effectiveness by
allowing control products made by different
manufacturers to be integrated into a single, uniform
system.
BACnet is designed to allow HVAC/R, lighting, life
safety, access, security, power, vertical transportation
and other building system control devices to
interoperate.
Brief History
The motivation for the BACnet standard was the
widespread desire of building owners and operators for
“interoperability” in building systems. Interoperability
is the ability to integrate equipment associated with
different building systems and/or buildings into a
coherent automation and control system, regardless of
manufacturer.
To accomplish this, the ASHRAE Standard Project
Committee (SPC 135) solicited and received input from
dozens of interested firms and individuals. The SPC
reviewed all relevant national and international data
communications standards and spent countless hours in
debate and discussion on each element of the protocol.
After 9 years of development, the ASHRAE Standards
Committee released BACnet to the industry in 1995.
BACnet became a national standard upon approval by the
American Standards Institute in (ANSI) shortly
thereafter in December 1995.
Once the standard was published SPC 135 was disbanded
and ASHRAE Standing Standards Project Committee (SSPC
135) was created in its place. SSPC 135 continues to
update the BACnet standard, and its companion testing
standard, to meet the evolving needs of the Building
Automation industry.
BACnet Today
The BACnet protocol was developed to be a consensus
standard, under full public scrutiny. Today, as a
national standard, it cannot be significantly changed
without public review and comment.
BACnet has since also become firmly established on the
international stage, where it is a European pre-standard
(CEN). It was recently announced at Ashrae 2003 that
BACnet has become an ISO standard (ISO 16484-5).
