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| BACnet has been under active development since June of 1987 when the first meeting of Standard Project Committee (SPC) 135P took place at the ASHRAE Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. The "P" in "135P" meant that the standard was in the process of being "proposed." Who would have thought that it would take eight and a half years to complete? Of course, there was a large body of skeptics who maintained that it could NEVER be done... Ira Goldschmidt, a member of the SPC since the early days and now a member of the follow-on SSPC (Standing SPC), recently authored an article that appeared in the Association of Energy Engineers' "Strategic Planning for Energy and the Environment" fall issue called the "Development of BACnet." Describing the entire gory process, more or less from the first moments to the present day, this is must reading for anyone interested in how BACnet came to be. |
