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April 2025

Read the latest issue of BACnet International's Journal of Building Automation
Save the Date for PlugFest 2025
Benefits of BTL Certification
New Cybersecurity Course on The BACnet Institute (TBI)
2025 AHR Expo Education Sessions now available on TBI
TBI Corner
Corporate Member Updates

Welcome to the newest edition of the Cornerstones newsletter from BACnet International. The BACnet International community benefits from information and education shared through Cornerstones, the organization's monthly electronic publication. This publication is distributed to members of the BACnet International community, connecting corporate, integrator, site, student, and individual users to BACnet news and updates. Cornerstones is a unique publication because it speaks not only to the engineer and contractor communities, but also to facility professionals, building managers and owners, and other personnel.

This is where you come in. We need you to connect! If you have company news, product news, BACnet Case Study, or a best practice you want to share, please send them to us using the form below. And don't leave out the photos!

Read past Cornerstones and Case Studies.

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Read the latest issue of

BACnet International's Journal of

Building Automation

BACnet International is excited to announce that the latest Journal of Building Automation is now available to read or download! Issue 27 highlights “The Language of Smart and Sustainable Buildings.”

Thank you to members of the BACnet community who contributed articles:

Secure HTTPS Provides Enhanced Security in a Building Management System

Harpartap Parmar, Contemporary Controls

BACnet Testing and Certification: Maintaining the Integrity of the Standard

Emily Hayes, BTL Manager, Certifications and Listings Manager and BTL Working Group Chair, BACnet International and BACnet Testing Laboratories

Data Center Trends: Insights from the Edge

Michael R. Wilson, Nlyte Software

BACtology and the Future of Semantic Interoperability in Building Automation

Salvatore Cataldi, Belimo

Cybersecurity in Building Automation Systems: Protecting your Assets

Ken Gilbert, Automated Logic

KTC Designated as Fourth “Recognized BACnet Testing Organization”

Mary Catherine Heard, BACnet International

Highlights from the 2025 AHR Expo in Orlando, FL

Mary Catherine Heard, BACnet International

Energy Valve Reporting Capabilities Improve Transparency for Accurate Tenant Billing

Belimo

Achieving Demand Control Ventilation Based on Occupancy

EBTRON

University Custom Demand-Response

S4 Integration Solutions

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Save the Date for PlugFest:

October 14th to October 16th at the University

of New Hampshire's Interoperability Laboratory

BACnet Testing Laboratories (BTL) invites manufacturers of BACnet products to attend the PlugFest Interoperability Workshop. PlugFest is an interoperability event that allows vendors worldwide to come together to test their BACnet products with BACnet devices from other vendors in a neutral and friendly environment. It’s an excellent opportunity to improve your BACnet testing methods and find implementation errors before your product hits the field. The event is taking place from Tuesday, October 14th to Thursday, October 16th at the University of New Hampshire's Interoperability Lab in Durham, New Hampshire.

BACnet Testing Laboratories Working Group (BTL WG) will be having their quarterly face-to-face meeting the day before PlugFest on Monday, October 13th. Registration coming soon!

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Do your BACnet products have

a BTL Certification?

BTL Certification provides users with confidence that a product has passed the industry standard BACnet conformance tests conducted by a recognized, independent testing organization (RBTO). Many building owners and control system designers consider BTL Certification to be a must-have to be eligible for a project. BACnet products that have successfully completed compliance testing are eligible for BTL Certification. Certified products are listed in the BTL Listing of Tested Products, which contains over 1,425 products from 229 manufacturers.

Lower Integration Cost

BTL Certified products accelerate and lower the cost of system integration. As such, it is becoming commonplace for specifications to require BTL

Certification to be eligible to bid on a project.

Less Integration Risk

Reliance on BTL Certified products lowers the risk of integration problems and the project delays and

cost-overruns. This also provides a solid foundation for future system enhancements and extensions.

Assurance of Independent

Compliance Testing

BTL Certification provides users with assurance that a product has passed the industry standard BACnet conformance tests conducted by a RBTO.

Interoperability Assurance in a

Multi-Vendor Environment

Tests are designed to validate that the product correctly implements a specified set of BACnet features to ensure that the products integrate

seamlessly.

MORE INFO

VIEW BTL LISTINGS

Now Available:

New BACnet Cybersecurity Course on

The BACnet Institute (TBI)

The BACnet Cybersecurity course provides an overview of BACnet Secure Connect (BACnet/SC), focusing on its significance in enhancing the security of interoperable building automation systems. Participants will gain an understanding of how BACnet/SC differs from existing security measures, its technical aspects and its interaction with other BACnet devices. This course also addresses the cybersecurity challenges and future strategies for improving BACnet security. This course also places BACnet/SC in the context of the larger building automation cybersecurity landscape.

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2025 AHR Expo Education Sessions are now available on The BACnet Institute (TBI)

BACnet 101

Speaker: Edward Tom, Yaskawa America, Inc.

Description: BACnet is a highly used open-building automation protocol that continues to grow. This session will teach you about the basic building blocks and design philosophy that have made, and continue to make, BACnet so popular. Learn how BACnet can help you now and into the future as the Building Internet of Things (B-IoT) continues to grow.

WATCH THE FIRST 10 MINUTES ON YOUTUBE

BACnet Web Services

Speaker: Coleman Brumley, Principal I/O Sub-Systems Engineer at Passive Logic

Description: This session covers what web services are and why they matter in the technological sphere and within the BACnet standard. The BACnet standard has published what is termed “BACnet Web Services” or “BACnet/WS” as part of ANSI/ASHRAE 135-2020.

BAC to the Future

Speaker: Nate Benes, Interim Director, Operational Technology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Description: Nate Benes, SSPC-135 Committee Member, presents the most recent additions to the BACnet standard, emerging technologies and applications.

TBI RESOURCE CORNER

Every month, BACnet International

will highlight a resource from

The BACnet Institute (TBI) Resource Library!

This month's featured TBI resource is “A BACnet Retrospective from People Who Were There,” presented by Mike Newman, known as the Father of BACnet, and Steve Busby, Leader, Mechanical Systems and Controls Group Engineering Laboratory, NIST. In the video, Newman and Bushby discuss the origin of the BACnet protocol.

SIGN-IN AND VIEW RESOURCE

The BACnet Institute (TBI) is an online portal for BACnet-focused learning and knowledge sharing. It provides an easy path to BACnet information and learning for everyone involved with BACnet systems. The portal includes three on-demand FREE courses and over 200 resources including white papers, articles, presentations, and a community forum. TBI Resources are free, but registration for an account is required. Courses are eligible for CEUs and PDHs.

Each year TBI continues to grow. Since its launch in January 2017, over 10,000 registered users across more than 80 countries have accessed its resources. TBI’s simple search function allows users to get quick access to anything they need.

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CORPORATE MEMBER UPDATES

For BACnet International Corporate Members, if you have any news concerning one of your BTL-listed products, case studies, or company news stories, let us know, and we will be glad to include it in Cornerstones! All submissions should be sent to Mary Catherine Heard, BACnet International's Marketing and Communications Manager, at marycatherine@bacnetinternational.org.

Please ensure that we are included in your distribution lists for product and company news release as well.

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