July 27, 2004: Addendum Proposed To ASHRAE BACnet Standard
ATLANTA - Simplifying access to building energy and performance data is said to be the goal of a proposed addendum to the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) BACnet® standard.
ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135-2004, "BACnet - A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks," is an open, consensus-developed standard for building controls. At ASHRAE's 2004 Annual Meeting, the Standard 135 committee proposed addendum 135-2004c for public review. The proposed addendum specifies the use of "Web services" to provide a means to integrate building automation and control systems with other enterprise computing applications.