Prerequisites

To use the BACnet drivers, your installation needs to meet specific requirements.
  • A Niagara 4 license for the bacnet feature for each host including an optional Supervisor station running on a PC.

    BACnet device and proxy point limits may exist in your license.

  • One or more 64–bit computers to serve as Supervisors; the latest version of Niagara requires 64–bit computers.
  • A target host controller running the Niagara 4 Framework or later.
  • Workbench running on a PC and enabled to be used as an installation tool.
  • A network of installed BACnet devices.

In addition, to use the EDE (Engineering Data Exchange) utility to discover BACnet devices and points offline:

  • A license that includes bacnetEde.
  • EDE configuration files that are compatible with the EDE 2.2 specification, stored in the local file system and accessible to Workbench.