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Table of Contents
1 OVERVIEW............................................................................................................................... 7
1.1 F EATURES ............................................................................................................................... 7
1.2 PICS - P ROTOCOL I MPLEMENTATION C ONFORMANCE S TATEMENT ............................................. 8
2 PLANNING YOUR DEPLOYMENT........................................................................................ 11
2.1 S OFTWARE I NSTALLATION R EQUIREMENTS ............................................................................. 11
2.2 N UMBER OF A CQUI S UITES R EQUIRED ..................................................................................... 11
2.2.1 Case Study: Meters Connected via RS485 at 9600 Baud ...................................... 13
2.2.2 Case Study: Meters Connected via Modhopper, 1-Hop Maximum......................... 14
2.2.3 Case Study: Meters Connected via RS485 at 38k4 and 115k2 Baud .................... 15
2.2.4 Case Study: “Consumption Only” Option at 9600 Baud ......................................... 17
2.3 M AXIMUM BAC NET C LIENTS .................................................................................................. 17
2.4 M INIMUM APDU_T IMEOUT ..................................................................................................... 18
2.5 S UPPORTED R ELAY T YPES .................................................................................................... 18
2.6 F AIL S AFE L OGIC D ESIGN ...................................................................................................... 18
3 INSTALLATION...................................................................................................................... 19
3.1 O VER - THE - WEB I NSTALLATION ............................................................................................... 19
3.2 “H AVE D ISK ” I NSTALLATION .................................................................................................... 19
3.3 U N - INSTALLATION .................................................................................................................. 20
4 SETUP .................................................................................................................................... 21
4.1 A UTOMATIC Q UICK S TART ...................................................................................................... 21
4.2 G UIDED S ETUP ...................................................................................................................... 21
4.3 BAC NET S ETUP O PTIONS ...................................................................................................... 23
4.4 H ANDLING U NSUPPORTED M ETERS WITH THE M ODBUS F RAMEWORK ....................................... 25
5 BACNET DEVICE LIST.......................................................................................................... 26
5.1 T YPICAL U SES OF THE D EVICE L IST PAGE ............................................................................... 26
6 BACNET DISCOVER ............................................................................................................. 27