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What is a communication protocol for Building Management System - BMS?

In order for signals to be exchanges across the network of  building management system, there must be a communication protocol.

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Question added by Sabry An-Naggar , Project Manager , Saudi Indsur Steel Company - SISC
Date Posted: 2016/02/25
Rukhsar Ali Sethar
by Rukhsar Ali Sethar , Control Engineer , Instrumentation & Management System

Dear friend,

I am known with two protocols which is used for BMS System are BACNet & LONWorks &  i am using both for BMS system.

Reyazul Qamar
by Reyazul Qamar , Bms Operator , alghanim international

When a master controller is exchanging data with devices and meters within a building, the standard BACNet or Modbus or any other standard protocol should be preferred.  Otherwise, make sure it is at least “open” for anyone to read and write information.

hussein mmdouh kamel
by hussein mmdouh kamel , building automation Technical , Allam Technology

bacnet ,lontolk, knx and mach more

Mohammad Darweesh
by Mohammad Darweesh , BMS And Low Current Engineer , KTTC/Alerton-Honeywell

use many protocol 

 

mainly is BACnet over IP and there are different protocols such as MODBUS & LON 

For Building management system (BMS) there are two protocols used which are BACnet and KNX. But mostly industry prefers BACnet Protocol

Mohammed Masood Khan
by Mohammed Masood Khan , Electrical, Instrumentation & Controls Engineer , Al Misned Joinery

- Communication protocol mostly used for BMS application are BAC net ( Building Automation Controller network ),LONtalk ( Local Operating Network ), Modbus.

     

Manikandan Ayyasamy
by Manikandan Ayyasamy , Senior Project Manager , Triumph solutions Pvt Ltd

BACnet Protocol is common standard and following  MODbus   and MBus.

Ahmed Hassan
by Ahmed Hassan , ELV & Control systems Senior Engineer , Edara (SODIC FM)

It's a rules for connection, communication and data transfer between devices. It's just because a site may have building automation system and control equipment from multiple manufacturers in the field, although there are ways to interconnect products made by different manufacturers without a standard protocol but it's very hard and very costly. The ISO made the 7 well known OSI layers as a fundamental model for any protocol.

 

mohd imran ali
by mohd imran ali , electrical engineer , eci infra towers pvt ltd

BACnet is a protocol used to control bms systems communications

NISHAD K
by NISHAD K , Building Management System Engineer , jbk controls

BACNet (Building Automation Control Network)

Notis Katsikos
by Notis Katsikos , Electrical ELV & LV engineer , aktor

The communication protocol is usually different for each manufacturer, but the most commonly  used are MODbus, LONbus and BackNet. These protocols usually utilize a separate 2 or 4 core cable for the interconnection of their devices. When the direct connection between some components or subnetworks is now possible, a gateway that provides access to the building's LAN network, translating (encapsulating actually) the e.g. MODbus packets to be transferred through the TCP/IP network. Hence, you may see that the used protocol is MODbus/TCP-IP.

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