The BACnet protocol is an American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) standard for building automation and control systems networking. Using this protocol, building automation devices such as heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning control, lighting control, access control, and fire detection systems and their associated equipment can exchange information in a simple and standard way.

COPALP BACNET stack

COPALP has implemented a portable BACNET stack in their straton® product for very small devices as for PLC controllers. The ‘C’ ANSI code of the stack implementation is portable to any hardware platform with minimal effort. The biggest advantage of the COPALP implementation is a very small footprint for the program and its associated memory space.

The configuration of the BACNET stack parameters is done through an easy to use tool with tree-style navigation. Variables and parameters can be declared in an efficient way through the import of configuration files directly from databases or from CSV files.

The BACNET protocol is one of a number of industry standard protocols available in straton®, including MODBUS, CANopen, PROFINET or PROFIBUS. The addition of BACNET opens several possibilities for implementing gateways between these other protocols through the easy to use configuration tool provided.