• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.10b
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• pp.107-109
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• 2005

BACnet(Building Automation and Control networks) is a standard data communication protocol designed specifically for building automation and control systems. BACnet provides BACnet/IP Protocol for data communication through the internet. BACnet device transmits BACnet broadcast messages and BACnet/IP messages using conventional IP technologies. Specially, BBMD(BACnet Broadcasting Management Device) is used to deliver BACnet broadcast messages. In this study, we propose a mechanism of fault tolerant BBMD in the BACnet/IP protocol. The Fault Tolerant BBMD mechanism(FTBM) improves the connectivity of BACnet/IP networks by inheriting the operation of BBMD in the networks. The FTBM is implemented with added functions to the original BACnet/IP protocol so that it can be applied together with original BACnet/IP devices. We also prove the FTBM's backward compatibility with original BACnet/IP protocol using experimental analysis.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.55 no.12
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• pp.534-543
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• 2006

BACnet(Building Automation and Control networks) is a standard data communication network protocol designed specifically for building automation and control systems. BACnet provides BACnet/IP Protocol for data communication through the Internet. BACnet device uses BBMD(BACnet Broadcasting Management Device) to deliver BACnet broadcast messages. In this study, we propose a fault tolerant BBMD in the BACnet/IP protocol. The fault tolerant BBMD improves the connectivity of BACnet/IP networks by inheriting the operation of original BBMD in the networks. The fault tolerant BBMD is implemented with added functions to the original BACnet/IP protocol so that it can provide backward compatibility with the original BACnet/IP devices. We examined the validity of the fault tolerant BBMD using an experimental model.

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.249-249
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• 2003

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.496-499
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• 2003

System Integration is significant role in building, because it is that the more building system is integrated, the more they can save management costs and energy costs. Nowadays system protocols in building use BACnet, LonWorks, etc. to integrate effectively, but their interoperability is not perfect. Therefore, we propose system integration using Ethernet and TCP/IP for perfect harmony. When data network protocol, Ethernet and TCP/IP is used for control network, there are several problems. But there have been solved by many researches. therefore it is possible that building system integrate to use Ethernet and TCP/IP. Finally, we show that Ethernet and TCP/IP can be used for building automation system integration.