Control networking platform provider Echelon Corporation has introduced its multiprotocol FT 6050 system on chip (SoC), the first to support both LonWorks and BACnet protocols over IP on a single chip, at the on-going AHR Expo 2014. The FT 6050 uses the ISO-standard Free Topology (FT) channel, the building industry’s most reliable connectivity option, the company said.
At the Expo in New York, USA, Echelon OEM device customers will demonstrate building automation devices built on the new FT 6050 chip. This includes:
Quark Communications Inc. and Smart Controls LLC: will demonstrate products built around the FT 6050 that can act as either LonWorks or BACnet devices, or both at the same time.
ICONICS: will demonstrate its GENESIS64 Suite being used as a BACnet workstation to manage the Quark and Smart Controls devices.
ConnectEx Inc.: will demonstrate software that can connect BACnet/MSTP devices to the BACnet/IP-over-FT network and offer consulting services to OEMs and integrators looking to explore this new approach to BACnet and LonWorks co-existence.
Echelon’s own OpenLNS software: will be used to show compatibility between LonWorks/IP devices and existing LonWorks devices that do not use IP.
The FT 6050 is part of Echelon’s new IzoT platform for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). OEMs that have worked exclusively with either LonWorks or BACnet protocols can now use the FT 6050 to develop devices that they can use to participate in both LonWorks and BACnet opportunities.
The IzoT platform also includes software that OEMs can use to develop compatible devices that work on media other than the FT channel, such as Ethernet, Wi-Fi and 802.15.4.
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