- Author
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Bushby, S. T.
- Title
- Draft Abstract Test Suite for Determining Conformance to the BACnet Protocol.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NISTIR 4563,
April 1991,
118 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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ASHRAE
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BACnet
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building automation
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computer
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conformance
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control
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EMCS
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energy management
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protocols
- Abstract
- The BACnet communication protocol for building automation and control systems is in an advanced state of development and is expected to be released for public review in early 1991. When the review process is completed it will become an ASHRAE standard. One of the important outstanding issues to be resolved is conformance to the standard and how to test devices to determine if they meet the conformance requirements. This report is a draft Abastract Test Suite based on working draft 3 of the proposed standard. This Abstract Test Suite is a first step in developing the tests which will be used to certify conformance to BACnet. Its purpose is to provide a starting point from which a conformance certification program can be built and to focus discussions on the outstanding conformance issues that need to be resolved before the standard can be considered complete. The role of an abstract test suite in the conformance testing process is described, a proposed BACnet test system architecture is presented and individual abstract test cases are defined. Test cases to determine support for object types and application services defined in working draft 3 are included. A standard object configuration is also proposed to simplify the testing process.