An industry standard protocol BACnet (Building Automation Control network) was initially designed by and for BMS (Building Management System) professionals (ASHRAE) seeking to build a vendor-independent communication and control system. OPC (OLE for Process Control) did not exist at the time, and so BACnet provided some revolutionary concepts: Communication by notification Command prioritization Advanced management…

Software bus The Panorama Suite has an internal software bus used to carry information. Thus all your objects—in both the literal and the computing sense of the term—exchange data transparently. Users do not have to take into account the physical location of data; i.e. whether an object resides on a single server or two different…