BACnet Changes Coming

At the Winter Meeting, ASHRAE announced that its board of directors will approve three new addenda to the BACnet standard. Addendum "a" adds nine new features, including improvements to how schedules are represented and maintained. Addendum "c" adds eight new features, including enhancements to the life-safety objects and services.

By Staff February 1, 2004

At the Winter Meeting, ASHRAE announced that its board of directors will approve three new addenda to the BACnet standard.

Addendum “a” adds nine new features, including improvements to how schedules are represented and maintained.

Addendum “c” adds eight new features, including enhancements to the life-safety objects and services.

Addendum “d” contains information on how to interconnect BACnet devices with ones that use the EIB/Konnex protocol, which is widely used in Europe.