GST BACNET Interface User Guide V1.
1. Activate BACNet
BACNet is not activated or not available by default. It can be activated by registration code,
following the steps:
1) Opening the setting screen of the control panel,record Uid in red not including the
content within brackets and provide sales with it. Refer to the figure below.
2) Clicking Uid serial, enters the screen as shown below.
3) Fill in the serial number from sales and press Enter.(The serial number can be
generated as described as the last page.)If the serial number is valid, words in
green mean BACnet is activated. Refer to the figure below.
4) Clicking Back returns to the main screen. At Panel Configuration, the right side
shows BACnet information at the bottom of the page. The BACnet version
should be v1.0 or above(v0.0 is for testing). Now BACNet of the control panel
is activated and can be used.
2. Operation of BACNet
1) Clicking BACNet on the message list, enters the screen of setting BACNet as
shown below.
2) The BACNet of IFP4 control panel is used to send event service or notice.
The way of sending can be set to broadcast or to single BACNet device. The
recipient device ID and IP address can be set when the way of sending to a single
BACNet device is selected. The On button at the top can tart or stop sending.
Refer to the figure below for details.
3. Description of BACNet
1) The BACNet of IFP4 control panel uses the Life-Safety Point and Life-Safety Zone
for object type. Each device node in a local control panel is a Life-Safety Point
object, and each zone is a Life-Safety Zone object. Both of them are standard
BACNet objects.
2) The Point object and the zone object have three states: NORMAL, ALARM, FAULT.
When there is a fire alarm, the state changes to ALARM and sends an alarm event.
When the fault occurs, the state is FAULT and an fault event is sent. When the
fault is cleared and the state returns to the normal, or the fire/fault state is reset to
the normal, the object state changes to NORMAL and an event is sent.
3) service type of BACNet has ConfirmedEventNotification and
UnconfirmedEventNotification among Alarm and Event Services. Among them,
ConfirmedEventNotification is used for single device notice and
UnconfirmedEventNotification for broadcast.
How the serial number of BACNet is generated
Open the IFPxSnCreater program, fill in the control Uid sent by the user. The clicking the
"Generate" button can produce the serial number.
The user shall be provided the serial number generated in the Sn box. Other control options
in the screen are useless at the present. Refer to the figure below for details.