BACnet Interoperability Testing Services Solutions

When it comes to networks of devices, BITS BACnet Network Monitor was built to enable facilities managers, site managers, and network techs to find errors and conflicts in their BACnet networks.

Minor network problems can become major when HVAC, security, or other systems fail due to previously undetected conflicts or other issues. BACnet Interoperability Testing Services, Inc. (BITS) is announcing the immediate availability of two diagnostic tools. For BACnet Device developers, the BITS BACnet Test Suite (BTS), has been in existence for many years, but has matured into the product of choice for in-house device testing prior to go-to-market, after software and firmware changes, and before submission to BTL labs for many top BAS companies. Finding problems in communication protocols for all objects and services allows efficient automated testing of devices. Available by subscription at a price point a fraction of the costs saved by even one error in the field, these tools have a broad customer base from IIoT developers of wine cask monitors, to more main-street controllers. 

Subscriptions allow for the most recent updates to be available immediately to all license holders at no additional cost. When it comes to networks of devices, BITS BACnet Network Monitor was built to enable facilities managers, site managers, and network techs to find errors and conflicts in their BACnet networks. These errors, when undetected, are often the cause for costly shutdowns, intermittent errors, lengthy debugging sessions, and delayed occupancy permits. 

 Simply put, BITS’ solutions, the BACnet Test Suite, and BACnet Network Monitor, find problems on your network or devices before they become BIG HEADACHES and cause dreaded “Call Outs”. Call outs happen when a network fails (inevitably on a holiday, weekend, or in the middle of the night). They interrupt regular work, scheduled activities, and cause stress for all stakeholders. 

The industry-norm of on-site troubleshooting is a labor-intensive, manual, iterative, and costly process for the technician, engineer, and organization. Edward Hague, Founder of BITS said, “After an early field career spent being called out of bed at all hours, or missing important milestones in my family’s lives…and just spending untold hours I would much rather have spent doing more productive things..the Engineer in me knew there had to be a better, more automated, smart way of troubleshooting networks.” 

“So, I developed monitoring tools that proactively monitor and find quiet or silent problems before they cascade to the point they cause networks to fail. I want this generation of facility managers to sleep better at night! I’m really excited to discuss the benefits of using our tools in maintaining and troubleshooting increasingly complex and dynamic networks.” In any network failure situation, time is money. As networks get larger, with more and more devices being added in an ad-hoc manner, the transient, dynamic complexities grow too. BITS’ BACnet Network Monitor empowers Facility Managers to avert disasters by allowing them to review network information, by providing up to the moment information about network behavior. BITS will be demonstrating BTS live and discussing BACnet Network Monitoring at booth C5150 at the AHR Expo February 6-8th at the Georgia World Congress Center. 

A free demonstration version of the BACnet Test Suite (BTS) for Device verification is available for download at https://bit.ly/BITS_BTS