BACnet OPC Server (TOP Server BACnet Ethernet Driver) Price: US$1,195.00 Product#: 41233181 Availability: In Stock - Ships in 0 to 1 days. Media: CD and/or Online Delivery Product Summary This product is intended for use with applications such as HMIs that support OPC, FastDDE, SuiteLink, AdvancedDDE and DDE to connect them to building automation system devices that use the BACnet protocol over Ethernet, often referred to as BACnet/IP or Annex J, including gateway devices. Read on for more information Overview This OPC and IO server provides connectivity between HMI/SCADA/DCS client software applications supporting OPC, DDE, FastDDE, SuiteLink, or AdvancedDDE interfaces and building automation systems and devices supporting BACnet over Ethernet protocol over TCP/IP Ethernet connections. User configurable BACnet APDU (Application Protocol Data Unit) settings which affect message segmentation help you tune performance to the needs of your system. The driver will work with any standard ethernet card in your computer that is supported by your Windows operating system. This driver can be used successfully with devices that use the BACnet protocol, are visible on an Ethernet network, and support the objects, properties, and services supported by this driver as shown below. You should consult the Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement (PICS), available from your hardware vendor. Communications with devices on remote networks is not supported at this time. Webinar presentation download link: BACnet Webinar Presentation Download (Powerpoint) BACnet Recorded Presentation - Uses free webex player - click to download Automatic Tag Database Generation This driver has the ability to automatically create tags for almost all of the properties supported by a device. The driver setup allows you to specify what object types you wish to generate tags for, and to specify additional tag generation options. This driver will also import a configurations from legacy Cimetrics BACnet OPC Servers. Change of Value Event Support BACnet allows applications to subscribe to change of value (COV) event notification for many properties. Use of COV notifications means that the driver does not have to continuously poll the device for the current value of these properties, reducing network traffic and communications processing load. You can configure this driver to utilize this capability on a per device level. Supported BACnet Services BACnet Service BIBB (see note 1) Initiate Execute Who-Is DM-DDB-A X   I-Am DM-DDB-A   X ReadProperty DS-RP-A X   ReadPropertyMultiple DS-RPM-A X   WriteProperty DS-WP-A X   WritePropertyMultiple DS-WPM-A X   SubscribeCOV DS-COV-A X   SubscribeCOVProperty DS-COVP-A X   ConfirmedCOVNotification DS-COV-A   X UnconfirmedCOVNotification DS-COV-A   X Note 1: BACnet Interoperability Building Block (BIBB) describe the services supported by a BACnet device or application. See Annex K of BACnet specification for details. Supported BACnet Objects - download the demo and see the product help file for full details on each object´s properties and data types. Analog Input Analog Output Analog Value Averaging Binary Input Binary Output Binary Value Calendar Command Device Event Enrollment File Group Life Safety Point Life Safety Zone Loop Multi-State Input Multi-State Output Multi-State Value Notification Class Program Schedule Trend Log BACnet Resources: The official BACnet specification, "ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2001 BACnet A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks", describes all aspects of the BACnet protocol. It is recommended that users of this driver be familiar with the standard BACnet objects and properties discussed in Clause 12 of the specification. In addition, you should be familiar with the particulars of BACNet/IP outlined in Annex J of the specification. The specification document, as well as many other useful resources, is available through the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE) or the official BACnet website: www.BACNet.org. General TOP Server Features Common to All Drivers This communications driver is a member of the TOP Server family of products and shares a number of powerful features in common with all of the products in the TOP Server family. The TOP Server family represents the latest in client-server communications technology for connecting HMI, Historian, Database, and other applications to plant floor equipment. Broad OPC Support The TOP Server implements both the OPC 1.0a, 2.0, and 3.0 Data Access Specifications giving you the choice of the widest range of OPC client applications. The TOP Server is continuously tested with the most popular OPC client applications on the market to insure ease of use, integration, and reliability, including popular names as Wonderware, Siemens WinCC, Intellution, Iconics, Cimplicity, RSView and more. Full Support for Wonderware FastDDE and Suitelink The TOP Server's support of Wonderware Corporation's FastDDE and SuiteLink simplifies the task of connecting the server with FactorySuite applications such as InTouch. By using the Wonderware connectivity toolkit, our TOP Server can simultaneously provide OPC and FastDDE/SuiteLink connectivity to address your communications needs. With built-in support of these Client/Server technologies, the TOP Server allows you to quickly access device data without the need to use an intermediary software bridge (i.e. OPC Link) as is done when using a strictly OPC only communications server. For Wonderware users the familiar look and feel of FastDDE/SuiteLink tag database setup is maintained. Backwards compatibility for legacy DDE is also supported. Intellution NIO native interface supported - no OPC Power Tool needed! Direct connection to the iFix Process Database allows you to skip the OPC Power Tool. Enabling the iFix PDB interface on the TOP Server Tools->Options menus causes the TOP server to appear as a native Intellution driver named "IDS". Never before has connecting TOP Server to Intellution iFix been easier. Legacy Support for DDE While OPC has become the defacto format of choice for communications drivers in the automation market, we realize that not everyone can replace their client software with the latest OPC client versions. For this reason, the TOP Server is one of the few OPC servers on the market to also simulataneously support Wonderware's FastDDE and Suitelink interfaces, Rockwell's AdvanceDDE and Microsoft's standard DDE interfaces for connecting the TOP Server to your client application. With the TOP Server you can connect to your legacy DDE clients today and move smoothly to the world of OPC when you are ready and not have to worry about replacing or re-configuring the communications driver connecting you to your production machinery. Other Key Features in the TOP Server Runtime Configuration Changes A very unique feature to this product is the ability to change your configuration while the server is running and has clients connected. The connected client application has access to a group of system tags that allow the client to request the TOP Server to change which network card it is using, change which com port it is using, change the IP address of the target device, change the Device ID of a target serial device, change serial communications parameters including RTS line control and flow control, and change diagnostic settings. This capability enables you to do Redundancy at the network media, serial connection media, and device levels -- your client application makes the determination that the target device is no longer operable by any means you choose, including monitoring our _Error system tag for communications errors, and when the client application wants the TOP Server to switch, it simply writes to the appropriate system level tag to change network connection, com port, or target device ID/IP address. Redundancy is just one of the powerful types of complex applications that these runtime-configurable features can enable. Import Tag Databases from KEPServer Your existing KEPServer version 3.x/4.x tag databases are readable by the new TOP Server so you can migrate your existing application seamlessly to the TOP Server. Online Full Time The TOP Server allows you to make changes to your tag database configuration at any time. In older versions, you could be online, but not add tags, or be offline to add tags but not read data. With the TOP Server you make changes when you need to, on the fly. User Management With powerful features such as online changes, you want to make sure you manage who is allowed to make what changes. The User Manager in the TOP Server lets you define what different people can change and update in the servers' configuration. Tag Management You want to organize your tag database around your process. With the TOP Server we've taken full advantage of OPC grouping capabilities to let you segregate and organize your tags the way you want them. Drag and Drop configuration lets you quickly move, add, copy large numbers of tags quickly and easily. CSV (Ascii comma-delimited) format import and export lets you bring in your tags from an Excel worksheet or export them, edit them in bulk and bring them back in. Tag Scaling Display your data in units that are meaningful to you. The TOP Server supports Linear and Square Root tag scaling. You define the display format and the engineering units display string to meet your needs. Diagnostics The TOP Server family of communications products provide real time diagnostics on all tag read/write operations that can be viewed in your OPC client to keep tabs on what is going on in the server. For those tough to debug communications problems, you can turn on our diagnostic window and capture protocol packets off to disk to find out what is really happening between the computer and the hardware device. Other Powerful Features in the TOP Server include: Tag Browsing Modem support built in for serial drivers Extensive help files and examples of how to use the TOP Server with popular OPC clients Visual Basic OPC client sample code 32-bit high performance multi-threaded drivers Auto-Start for unattended operation Works with any OPC client or DDE, AdvancedDDE client application Works with Wonderware's FastDDE and SuiteLink interfaces Operating System Support: Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Server Windows 2000 Pro & Server Windows 2000 Advanced Server Editions Windows XP Pro, XP SP2, Windows XP Embedded (provided DCOM installed) Windows 2003 Server including RC1, RC2. For support for Windows 95/98/Me, we can provide a version of TOP Server, please contact us for details. BACnet OPC Server (TOP Server BACnet Ethernet Driver) Price: US$1,195.00 Product#: 41233181 Availability: In Stock - Ships in 0 to 1 days. Media: CD and/or Online Delivery