May 24, 2006: TAC Introduces First BACnet Service Tool
BOSTON - TAC has introduced what the company says is the industry's first BACnet service tool, designed to provide easy field access to controller point information. TAC's Roam IO2 Service Tool is a compact hardware adapter with software applications designed to run as a BACnet service tool on a Windows® Pocket PC or laptop. Small enough to clip onto a technician's belt, the Roam IO2 automatically discovers and edits BACnet devices from third parties as well as TAC's own Andover Continuum™ BACnet and Infinet™ lines of controllers.
"The Roam IO2 is the first of its kind: a service tool servicing both Andover Continuum and third-party BACnet controllers from sensors to drives to controllers," said Rainer Wischinski, vice president of product marketing for TAC. "It is also the first BACnet service tool with Bluetooth wireless communications capabilities. And it does all this while still weighing under a pound."