The graphics are slow to bind. Devices drop offline and come back for no reason. Discovery takes forever, and the whole system feels heavier than it did a year ago.…

Capturing traffic on a BACnet network has never been the hard part. Wireshark and tools like it have done it reliably, and for free, for more than twenty years, in…

An earlier article on this site looked at Clause 19.9 of ASHRAE 135-2024, Device Address Proxying, and at where it earns its keep. It closed on a limit worth returning…

Anyone who runs a BACnet system across more than one subnet eventually meets the same problem. Device discovery is effortless on a single network and becomes a steady source of…

Every BAS operator has lived a version of this scenario: a building that worked yesterday is doing something subtly different today. A schedule that was running properly is overriding to…

BACnet Secure Connect brings TLS 1.3 encryption and mutual certificate authentication to building automation, and it solves a real problem. BACnet/IP traffic has always been unencrypted, and in an era…

Anyone who manages a BACnet network across more than a handful of buildings knows the feeling: adding a new building should not be this difficult. Discovery breaks, broadcast traffic spikes,…