- Author
- Bushby, S. T. | Newman, H. M.
- Title
- BACnet Communication Protocol for Building Automation Systems.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD Cornell Univ., Ithaca, New York
- Journal
- ASHRAE Journal, Vol. 33, No. 4, 14-21, April 1991
- Keywords
- communication protocol | energy management and control systems
- Identifiers
- Building Automation and Control network (BACnet); BACnet--data communication protocol for building automation and control networks
- Abstract
- The building community in the United States and in several other countries has been carefully watching the efforts by ASHRAE to develop a communication protocol for building energy management and control systems (EMCS). In January, 1987, the ASHRAE Standards Committee formed a Standards Project Committee (SP-135P) to deliberate the creation of communication protocol that will become an industry standard. The name chosen for this protocol is "BACnet: A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks."